[This opening scene is symmetrical o the last one in the film, except that the character in the doorway is different.Starling was shot in the stomach (protected by a vest) and compelled to kill Drumgo with the baby (afterwards covered with the blood of her mother), who was wielding a MAC-10." Meanwhile, she was unaware that her father Shingen was conspiring with her corrupted fiancee to hire kidnappers to locate and eliminate her - so that Ichiro""s will, to be revealed in only a few days, would leave control of the company to Shingen and not to her.[It is later learned that the hotel was built upon American Indian burial grounds - does the blood also symbolize he spilling of native-American blood?] Danny""s horrified face reacts with mouth gaping open.In the paramedic ambulance, Alice refused to have Dan sedated, and then whispered o him: "Don""t let them put you to sleep.