一路上，他突然意识到自己没有和维吉尔·弗劳尔斯说过话。他可能请了一天假，而且了解弗劳尔斯，他是在船上做的。在卢卡斯看来，关于弗劳尔斯的事情是，你可以派他出去买一条面包，他会发现一个非法面包卡特尔从阿富汗走私含有海洛因的小麦。要么这样，要么他会在政府时间参加麝香锦标赛钓鱼。你必须留意他。
(Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn't spoken to Virgil Flowers. He'd probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he'd done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Lucas's humble opinion, you could send him out for a loaf of bread and he'd find an illegal bread cartel smuggling in heroin-saturated wheat from Afghanistan. Either that, or he'd be fishing in a muskie tournament, on government time. You had to keep an eye on him.)