It""s your husband.He""s been murdered."The emblem of the Los Angeles Hall of Justice that is cut into the floor identifies the next locale, where Mildred is brought and flanked by the two detectives.The story was taken from Dashiell Hammett""s 1934 detective novel of the same name, with a married couple that was supposedly modeled on the author""s relationship with longtime love and playwright Lillian Hellman.Tommy had inadvertently resurrected or reanimated Jason (C.J.Graham) from his grave (signaled by a close-up of his opened eye), causing him to now be a supernatural undead zombie.In exchange for the drugs, the Bodyguard (Mac Mashourian) gives a large quantity of cash ($50,000) to one of the bikers in the front seat of the Rolls.