Spats, obsessed with the cleanliness of his white shoes, sits at one of the tables with his thick-skulled muscle-bound bodyguards.The original threesome of the film (Bill/Abby/Linda) sit atop the overloaded train, sharing their ride hrough Midwest farmlands and America""s heartland with dozens of other would-be harvest hands.As commanding warden, Saito insists that all the men work without regard to rank:All men will work.Your officers will work beside you.This is only just.For it is they who betray you by surrender.Your shame is their dishonor.It is they who told you: ""Better o live like a coolie than die like a hero."" It is they who brought you here, not I.Therefore, they will join you in useful labor.That is all.Stoically and stubbornly, Nicholson keeps his men standing in the hot sun, rather than letting his officers work side-by-side in physical labor with the enlisted men.When the pilot refused to follow Rhodes"" orders to fly him out on the whirlybird with only his men, Rhodes killed Fisher with a shot to the head.