Suddenly the words fade into silence.A cloud comes into her eyes and they go blank.She""s somewhere else, away from me, someone I don""t know.I call her, she doesn""t even hear me.Then, with a long sigh, she""s back.Looks at me brightly, doesn""t even know she""s been away, can""t tell me where or when.Scottie: How often does this happen?Elster: More and more in the past few weeks.And she wanders - God knows where she wanders.I followed her one day, watched her coming out of the apartment, someone I didn""t know.She even walked a different way.Got into her car and drove off to Golden Gate Park.Five miles.Sat by the lake, staring across the water at the pillars that stand on the far shore.You know, Portals of the Past.Sat there a long ime without moving.I had to leave, get back to the office.When I got home that evening, I asked her what she""d done all day.She said she""d driven out to Golden Gate Park and sat by the lake, that""s all.Scottie: Well.(Getting up.)Elster: The speedometer on her car showed that she""d driven ninety-four miles.Where did she go? I""ve got to know, Scottie, where she goes and what she does before I get involved with doctors.In Spanish, the thinner, calmer one chuckles: "Si pura vida (Yes, it""s pure life)." Then, he hands a packet of money to Jesus who thumbs through it and smiles.The two bikers, who have presumably orchestrated the decision to buy the cocaine in Mexico, are given cases of the powder in the drug deal.Eighteen years ago, I left a girl so like your lovely wife to go to war...She was my wife.Have you ever heard of Kurgaal? It is a prison below Amsk...Many men have gone there.Few have returned.I have returned.After fifteen years, I have returned.Werdegast is returning home after 18 years - 3 years at war, and 15 years in the Kurgaal prison.As Werdegast explains his return from the Russian prison camp, he sits forward, his eyes glare, and his tortured face grows taut.Am I an innovator? Am I a genius?" Riggs replied: "You""re a swindler." Getz rationalized: "Everybody cheats a little bit.Look at the Pentagon." Leo remembered that during his laundering schemes, he was taken to a home on stilts in the hills, and he volunteered to take them there.