On the way home, Stan tearfully explains his reluctance and fear to take the oath - he predicts that his wife may not let him go to the convention." He begged for a little more time: "Please, just, just for a little while.You""re hurting me.No.She""s, she""s nice.She""s okay." His tortured soul almost brought him to commit suicide by blowing his brains out.He told Reba he was compelled to go away on a trip.To attempt to stop his mania to kill, Dolarhyde""s plan was to destroy the Red Dragon pictured in the original William Blake painting, located in New York City.Armand: What friend?Marguerite: You didn""t even see her?Armand: No.Marguerite: That""s very nice.Armand: I was just wondering if you""d ask me to sit down if I knocked at the door of the box.Marguerite: Why not? We really seemed fated to meet this evening, didn""t we?Armand escorts Marguerite back to Box B.He bets his truck against Mike""s Caddy.Mike recklessly speeds and drag races the big rig on the narrow road and wins the friendly bet, but declines to accept Nick""s truck.It pulls no punches, but handles its subject sincerely and straightforwardly.It is not a preachment, but the most stirring kind of dramatic entertainment.Miklos Rozsa""s eerie score featured thefirstuse in a feature film of electronic music - from an instrument called athereminthat produced oscillating, wailing, other-worldly sounds to express the drinker""s distorted perceptions of reality during the nightmarish sequences.