Vorstedt admitted: "I""m the guy that changed the course of your life, man." Four years earlier, when Riggs was a Long Beach narcotics officer and getting "too close" to Vorstedt""s/Rudd""s drug operations, the gang member personally handled the contract put out on Riggs"" life: "Drove your car right off the f--king road, remember? But of course, you weren""t driving, were you? You can""t imagine the surprise when I pulled back this matted mop of blood-soaked hair to see this woman""s face.He is assured that he will be the unique "right guy" - he one who won""t be affected by gold""s perennial curse:Dobbs: Do you believe what that old man who was doin"" all the talkin"" at the Oso Negro said the other night about gold changin"" a man""s soul so that he ain""t the same kind of a guy that he was before findin"" it?Curtin: Guess that all depends on the man.And man was afraid for both parent apes possessed the power of speech.So both were brutally murdered.[A short review of the events described up to this point were shown with excerpts fromEscape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).When the phone rings, Raymond answers and the programming code that sets him off is triggered by a male voice:Raymond, why don""t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?Robotically and mechanically, Raymond begins dealing from a deck.