The riverboat, the house Jake was living in, the bandits he worked with, the Indians to help him regain his memories, and the spaceship itself, all out there in a line and in easy riding distance from each other. that everything they need to run into is pretty much all lined up on the route they take while following the trail of the alien. Colonel Badass: Although he's not in the army anymore, Dolarhyde has the requisite military rank.Ella, another alien, says that she came from beyond the stars, giving the impression of an angel. They're most often called demons and the cast never thinks of them as being technologically advanced. Clarke's Third Law: The aliens are never called as such.The answer is the lit cigarro he's been smoking the whole scene. Cigar-Fuse Lighting: After one of the bandits drops all the matches off a cliff, he asks how he's going to light the dynamite.
Turns out he does, but they fail to collect.
He gets better, both in terms of sobriety and as a parent.