This makes perfect sense to him since his future seems to be more of the same-and his personal final solution will prevent him from making anyone else suffer because of his addiction to John Barleycorn. Mostly while he's driving, tooling along in his slick new car. I suppose he's so accustomed to functioning, more or less, while gooned to the gills, that driving and drinking is as natural as-well, drinking while not driving. He's horny most of the time, and, again, contrary to accepted liquor lore, is able to perform just fine, thanks. He's settled, more or less, in this garish motel suite which he has furnished, wall to wall, with bottles of booze.
Bottles adorn every flat surface in the joint, libations of every description, size and quantity.
Sera is impressed. Although most hookers don't as a rule, Sera elects to spend the night with Ben, talking, making love and exchanging confidences till dawn. He slaps her around, de rigeur for this sort of chap it seems, and beds her brutally, supposedly cementing their relationship. A bit later the thugs find Yuri and shoot him dead, thereby erasing the only other major character in this film. Left to freelance, Sera to invites Ben to share her apartment and live together.