We used to swap shots between drinks, or drinks between shots, whichever you like.Sternwood: My respects to you, sir.Few men ever swapped more than one shot with Sean Regan.He commanded a brigade in the Irish-Republican Army - you knew that.Marlowe: No I didn""t...I know he was a good man at whatever he did.No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your...whatever he was.Sternwood: My friend, my son almost.Marlowe is asked to investigate Carmen""s current blackmailer - a "rare book" dealer Arthur Gwynn Geiger (Theodore von Eltz) with a store on North Sunset, who is blackmailing Sternwood over "gambling debts" incurred by his youngest daughter.It was filled with the comedian""s trademark physical gags, intricately-choreographed and acrobatic vaudeville stunts, visually-witty humor and amazing special effects (an explosive billiard ball, a trap door, etc.She complained that Bick""s marriage and honeymoon had kept him away during spring round-up.Bick made light of her criticism: "If I miss roundup every time I have a honeymoon, I guess I wouldn""t be missin"" much, would I?"Bick heard the roar of his car outside, wondered o himself about Jett: "I thought I fired him off this place," and confronted him outside: "Where do you think you""re going with my automobile?" The laconic and ornery Jett and Bick often bickered with each other, according to Luz: "Jordan and Jett are everlastin"" janglin"" about somethin"".On the other side of the hill were the sacred ruins at Calima.According to the apes"" holy writings, that was where creation began: "Where the Almighty breathed life into Semos, the first ape, in the time before time.