We used to swap shots between drinks, or drinks between shots, whichever you like.Sternwood: My respects to you, sir.Few men ever swapped more than one shot with Sean Regan.He commanded a brigade in the Irish-Republican Army - you knew that.Marlowe: No I didn't...I know he was a good man at whatever he did.No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your...whatever he was.Sternwood: My friend, my son almost.Marlowe is asked to investigate Carmen's current blackmailer - a "rare book" dealer Arthur Gwynn Geiger (Theodore von Eltz) with a store on North Sunset, who is blackmailing Sternwood over "gambling debts" incurred by his youngest daughter.Green (Svetlana Khodchenkova) - revealed later as a mutant known as Viper.[Note: It appeared that she had deposited or injected something deep into his throat with her snake-like tongue, to affect his healing ability.He separated Josh from Diana, but then the killer grabbed a knife-sharpening implement from the kitchen and threw it into Diana's back and spinal cord, fatally wounding her(# 10 death).Wade was injected with a special serum - he was told that it "activates any mutant genes lurking in your DNA.The mice often appeared in a bulls-eye shaped iris below the titles.In some instances, the mice sang: "Blue Moon," "Votre Toast" (a Georges Bizet aria in French from the operaCarmen), and Scott Fitzgerald's lyrics to "If I Had Words.