Dr.Simms dismissed he dreams as "the by-products of guilt, psychological scars stemming from moral conflicts and overt sexuality.He asked: "How did everything that was so good get so bad?...I wrecked everything by not thinking for myself." He still felt that his previous fights (before Lang""s challenge) were Mickey""s set-ups that deceived him about how good he was ("I never fought anybody who was in their prime"), although Mickey was only protecting him from harm ("You wake up after a few years thinking you""re a winner, but you""re not."Les and Joe gamble (by guessing the number of matchsticks in Joe""s hand) to decide who will have a "real American steak" dinner with Bonnie.Logan stressed: "We""ve got to do this, Sarah.It""s our only hope." Sarah then noticed Major Cooper""s uniform, and deduced that the recently-deceased commander was one of the faceless corpses beneath a sheet on an operating table, with only his brain stem (attached to electrodes) exposed above his body.