The Story

I Gotta Get in Shape Now

The first way Travis gets organized to combat his existential loneliness is through weapons armament. At a street corner, Travis pops three or four aspirin from a brown bag directly from the bottle into his mouth. One of his cabbie friends pulls up and introduces him to "Easy" Andy (Steven Prince), a traveling salesman who offers to sell him guns. The well-dressed young man carries two large display suitcases and places them on a bed in an economy hotel room. A full-screen close-up slowly pans up the long, eight-inch barrel of an inhuman, oversized .44 Magnum. Travis first picks up the Magnum and then three other different guns to examine them as Easy Andy admiringly describes their features.