Mrs.Jarvis returned from jogging in the rain to a dark and quiet house.As she called out for everyone ("Anybody home?") and searched around the house (inside and outside), she looked up and was suddenly startled(# 7 death)(off-screen).He held up one of the valuable relics that he had discovered - an old Indian funerary urn - before the cave-in occurred.And 6' 8" tall, 'mute' native American Chief Bromden, a paranoid schizophrenic, narrated the story and was the central character in the novel, providing hallucinatory images of an all-powerful, all-seeing bureaucratic 'harvesting machine' designed to foster complete social integration - a Combine, that would squelch all individuality and create a compliant society (both within the hospital and in the wider society).Max knew his reputation and introduced him to Annie: "He's played in more ballparks than I have.Helluva guy.He's really different.I actually saw him read a book without pictures once." Annie thought to herself that "Crash" was cute and asked him to dance, but he declined: "I don't dance.Way it sounds, you'd think I had a hyena inside me...Ain't a thing I can do about it." The Sayers continue on with their restrained parlor room conversation and disregard his down-to-earth comments.