The cops, especially the Lieutenant, act suspicious for a number of reasons:he refuses to identify his client or provide details about the casehe didn't go to Miles' house to break the news to his wife Iva as he said he did (he gave the job instead to Effie, his efficient assistant)he has no witnesses to support his whereabouts for he last hourAnd then they divulge the reason for their visit - Floyd Thursby was murdered in front of his hotel only a half hour after Sam left the Archer murder scene.Prewitt has requested a transfer to he base from the Ft.Shafter bugle corps.Maggio is doubtful about he wisdom of Prew's transfer to the new Company command: "You made a very bad mistake.A driver in lane 'A' may crash while a driver in lane 'B' survives.It follows that a driver, by changing lanes can change his future...In the dark and turbulent corridors of outer space, the impact of some distant planetary, even galactic disaster, jumped the apes from their present into ours...My name, it's pronounced 'Fronk-en-steen'!"Incensed and briefly losing his composure, Dr.Frankenstein said he wanted to be remembered by his own "small contributions to science." He referred to his "accidental relationship" to his famous ancestor, and called him "a famous cuckoo.It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.