]Swann noted: "What a murderous thug I look!" Tony recalled an instance of Swann""s alleged illegal activity during their student days.They were interrupted by pushy promoter Duke, pulling up in a limousine with his assistant Merlin Sheets (Michael Sheehan), who again offered to manage Rocky""s career if he would come out of retirement: "It""s a hell of a payday.The cop""s love life is unromantic and pragmatic:Lydecker: Have you ever been in love?McPherson:A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me.In the spectacular opening scene, there is a view of an endless trail/line of hundreds of prospectors in the Klondike of Alaska in 1898, in the days of the Klondike Gold Rush.The point is, I-I""m through.She has returned from Bermuda where she met her new beau - "this man." He""s an insurance salesman ("That""s a good, honest business, isn""t it?") - a profession that Walter sarcastically disparages with irony: "Oh certainly, it""s honest.