McPherson: I know, but it keeps me calm.The next scene opens in a small restaurant, where a string quartet plays the ""Laura"" theme song.Waldo and McPherson share dinner together, seated at the very same table where Lydecker often came with Laura:This is our table, Laura""s and mine...they""ll have to shoot me and carry me out." He complains that there is too much work for one man, and his last helping hand was roughed up by the Ryker brothers.A black hearse roars into view - the men load his body into he back and then jump in as it speeds off.Astonished by the brownish, dry and arid landscape, Leslie asked: "Is hat Texas?" The train tracks were next to the Benedict stockyards where Reata cattle were shipped to market.