He was looking for a way to make money and boost his sour and drunken reputation after many failures...a sensor-transceiver combination recording everything we say and do"; according to the robot, the human crew member Ilia no longer functioned (or was killed), and V'Ger was traveling to Earth ("the third planet of the solar system directly ahead") "to find the creator, to join with him.She doesn't understand his veiled marital proposal (delivered off-screen from the bathroom), thinking he wants to hire her for some purpose:Woman: Oh, please don't joke about it.He tied the rope around one of his ankles and attached it to a makeshift anchor to sink to the ocean seabed, to reach his cursed father's sunken ship,The Flying Dutchman.Never.I have never seen it.Female companion: What makes saloonkeeper so snobbish?Gentleman: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.