 SPOILER: After Butch kills Maynard, Marsellus Wallace says that hes  going to call some friends "to go to work on [Zed] with a pair of  pliers and a blowtorch." In _Charley Varrick (1973)_ (qv), a  character named Maynard warns a bank manager that some mobsters  "will go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch."