The plain clothes cop is shooting down everyone he talks to. When he refers to the beauty queen as a spoke in the wheel, I think he's calling her a mindless cog in our society. When he says to the chief that all he's done is make an honest mistake, he's giving the Indian chief a big "fuck you," and when he says to the holy ghost (God) that he's never heard anything that wasn't the wind, he's basically saying he's never experienced anything to make him believe in God.
The plain clothes cop is shooting down everyone he talks to. When he refers to the beauty queen as a spoke in the wheel, I think he's calling her a mindless cog in our society. When he says to the chief that all he's done is make an honest mistake, he's giving the Indian chief a big "fuck you," and when he says to the holy ghost (God) that he's never heard anything that wasn't the wind, he's basically saying he's never experienced anything to make him believe in God.