His struggle to stay alive in the rural, barbaric ""re-education"" labor camp, his two escape attempts from his captors, and his horrifying walk through the skeletal remains of the brutal massacres in the Valley of Death, the muddy "killing fields," all present potent apocalyptic images on his journey to Thailand.Three months after the explosions rocked Gotham City, Special Forces snuck in, posing as relief workers providing assistance to the self-destructing city.It wasn""t in Palm Springs and it wasn""t in the garage.I was way ahead of the finance company.I knew they""d be coming around and I wasn""t taking any chances.With his car keys (with a miniature rabbit""s foot attached for luck), Joe ventures out to Paramount Pictures Studios to sell an "original story" - a baseball script titledBases Loadedto a callous, "big shot" "smart producer" named Sheldrake (Fred Clark).After the hapless husband Jake calls for a truce with his wife, things calm down.Consumed with bitter anger, Jake complains to Joey about what""s wrong - that he will never be "the best there is" because he has "girl""s hands":Jake: What""s wrong with me? My hands.