Destitute Joe sees a chance for easy money hat he so desperately needs, even though he believes the script is unbearably terrible.Claire was monitoring the plan in a parked Mobile Veterinary Unit truck-van with the two boys in the back, as was Vic who watched from the Control Room: "Imagine if we had these puppies in Tora Bora.It doesn""t matter whether he wins or not, he feels fine again afterwards.A recent series of cattle thefts ("about six hundred head") has plagued the town.News arrives from a rider that cattle rustlers have probably committed a brutal murder - a popular and respected local rancher named Larry Kinkaid ("a short dark Irishman, didn""t say very much, liked to sing a lot") has been "shot right through the head" and killed:Down in the SE corner of the valley, about eight miles from his ranch.The camera is positioned in the back seat of the convertible as the couple drives to the local Arlene""s Diner.