DeVriess: You, uh, saw yourself on a carrier, or a battleship, no doubt.Keith: Yes sir, I had hoped that ---DeVriess: Well, I onlyhopethat you""re good enough for theCaine.Keith: I shall try to be worthy of this assignment, sir.DeVriess: She""s not a battleship or a carrier; theCaineis a beaten-up tub.After 18 months of combat, it takes 24 hours a day just to keep her in one piece.Keith was assigned to follow the smooth-talking, sarcastic Lt.Keefer for a tour of the obsolete and "beaten-up" tub.Although heCainehad been designed to be a minesweeper, it hadn""t been used to sweep mines in a year and a half:The first thing you""ve got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.Both Sophia and her mother were presented with a medallion o wear - representing the order of St.Catherine ("May you both wear it in good health and be careful it doesn""t scratch you").The Empress looked for support and congratulations from her subordinates on her judgment and selection of the Princess, as the future healthy child-bearing ""Empress"" who was to "breed sons for Russia.Jack: Not for me.Ullman: How about your wife and son? How do you think they""ll take o it?Jack: They""ll love it.Without wanting to sound "melodramatic" because "it""s something that""s been known to give a few people second thoughts about the job," Ullman sheepishly and truthfully reveals the hotel""s disturbing, murderous, misogynistic history - a real-life horror movie recipe about a previous care-taker who was affected by the isolation and loneliness of the bleak hotel.The musicians are displayed in shadow and color and are silhouetted against a blue backdrop in the opening as they take their accustomed places and une their instruments....Slop, slop, slop!" He hurled his metal plate of ""slop"" and a food-fight brawl commenced.During the chaos, Vince struck a few of the guards who were ordering him back to his cell.As punishment, he suffered a bare-backed whipping (with five lashes - on-screen) by one of the guards (Bill Hickman).