The two low-life losers (and soon-to-be hired killers) are:Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) - a weasely-looking, nervous and sweaty, demented, raw-nerved, volatile and loud, and embittered slimeball of a man with a shaggy mustacheGaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) - a Swedish-accented, grim, stone-faced, sullen, and usually reserved hulk of few words who explodes in episodes of violent psychosisLundegaard""s go-between, Shep Proudfoot, had arranged for a rendezvous at 7:30pm, but Jerry admits to a "mix-up" and is already one hour late.You know about those things.You""re a big boy now.Scottie: I""ve never run across one like that.Midge: It""s brand new.Revolutionary uplift.No shoulder straps.No back straps.But does everything a brassiere should do.Works on the principle of the cantilever bridge...An aircraft engineer down the Peninsula [a pun onSiliconeValley, although unlikely since the term wasn""t in general use until the 1970s] designed it.Following he call, Lily complains to Gaston about how "the scandal is on" already, and she collapses on the sofa.The images switch between the imagined, delusionary, conditioned point of view within the brainwashed soldiers"" heads and actual reality...Watching you, I thought of tales in theArabian Nightsof myrrh and frankincense and...patchouli.She recognized that he was quoting from the book she was reading, and found the exact passage - possibly thinking of him as plagiaristically unoriginal.