Nora and McCloud prepared the hotel further, by closing more window shutters (the downstairs area became very dark) and retrieving oil lamps.I've had six years of this.I've had my bellyfull...Who are we fooling? We've tried everything, haven't we? We've reasoned with him.We've baited him.We've watched him like a hawk.We've tried rusting him.How often have you cried? How often have I beaten him up? Scrape him out of a gutter and pump some kind of self-respect into him and back he falls, back in every time.Seething with anger and revenge, Sean Miller was jailed, but refused to name his accomplices who deserted him." (In another smoking room, Muggsy is losing many card games to Gerald.) Col.Harrington and Jean allow Charles o win and insist that they were playing for money: "But we always play for money, darling.If you're lucky, the mutant genes will activate and manifest in a spectacular fashion.If not, well, we'll have to keep on hurting you in new and different ways, each more painful than the last until you finally mutate - or die.