Maybe I should cut him some slack.""Cause maybe, just maybe, this guy""s gonna turn out to be, I don""t know, a king? And maybe his first royal decree will be to banish everyone who ever picked on him., the protagonist""s apartment at the Chateau Marmont, etc.The material forDouble Indemnitywas derived from ""hard-boiled"" James M.Cain""s 1943 melodramatic novellaThree of a Kindthat first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form inLibertyMagazine.The highly self-confident and tough-talking Edmund mentioned how he would kill anyone who might be having an adulterous affair with his hot wife: "If I thought she was seeing another guy.(He also sensed that Fett was the armored "rocket man" who had zoomed away after firing the deadly dart." On board theKing, J.J.King, an officer, and Willie all end up in the water.When Willie swims to a section of the dock to emerge from the water, he frightens a young black boy who is playing a guitar - the upset lad tumbles over backwards and runs away.