" In the kitchen, Lester apologized to Jane: "I""m sorry I haven""t been more available..." He sincerely wondered: "What happened? You and I used to be pals."The view changed to a grainy, washed-out image without sound - seen from an outdoor vantage perspective shot hrough the kitchen""s bay window.The first was nasty, long blonde-haired henchman Karl Vreski (Alexander Godunov), who shot the front-desk officer and security guard." On a TV news broadcast, Ethan learned that Margaret Ethan Hunt (his mother) and her brother-in-law Donald Hunt (his uncle) were arrested by drug-enforcement agents in farmlands of Wisconsin, for allegedly masterminding an international drug ring that manufactured methcathinone, known as "Cat"." In the visually expressionistic, dramatic scene, he ascends up the spiraling staircase, visually entrapped by its circularity.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.