Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis) who is traveling with her beautiful blonde daughter Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly).The leader of the rebellion and captain of the ship was Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who piloted his hovercraft through a sewer pipeline while attempting to avoid "serious Sentinel activity" with his new co-pilot Link (Harrold Perrineau, Jr.After Proody drove away, and was greedily counting his stack of bills at a railroad crossing, a car behind him pushed his vehicle onto the tracks and he was killed by an oncoming train.The woman""s breathing is labored and she sobs as they drive along without speaking.The words of the NKC song on the radio additionally amplify the film""s dark, melancholic themes:The night is mighty chilly, and conversation seems pretty sillyI feel so mean and wrought, I""d rather have the blues than what I""ve got.In fact, he forgot all about it as soon as I promised you""d pay him hree dollars more a week."In his retrospective narration, Frank remembers how fatal his decision to stay became.Cora""s smoldering sexuality is a trap which pulls Frank further toward murder and a defiant form of love:Right then, I shoulda walked out of that place but I couldn""t make myself do it.