Appearing eager but uncertain as a novice on the "Brookfield special" train full of new "stinkers," he is an easy target for the boisterous pranks of rowdy, lower school boys: "I""m new too.In a later scene set in the barn, the dope-smoking hick was looking at aHustlermagazine centerfold and making crude comments ("Let Daddy have a little lick"), after which he investigated a noise in the attic, armed with a puny croquet mallet.Both ragic outlaw figures exemplify ""innocents on the run"" who cling o each other and try to function as a family." Claire backed up Owen: "Hoskins, you wanted this to happen, you son of a bitch!" Hoskins claimed he had taken command o save lives, to employ cruise ships to evacuate everyone the next morning, and use the Raptors to "save lives." Later, outside the restaurant, Robert spoke to his father about the upcoming fight, and the problems of growing up under Rocky""s celebrity shadow ("People see me but they think of you.