The policeman turns back to offer help and leaves the criminal to escape.Holding onto the creaking and collapsing gutter, the hanging man is frozen by his fear of heights (acrophobia)...You""re just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what""s right and wrong.The earthy, warm-hearted housekeeper Alma Brown (Patricia Neal) is almost raped one night when Hud is uncontrollably drunk.The crazed killer suspected that Reba had found something incriminating when she had wandered around his home.After the surgery, Cukrowicz confronted and berated Hostader in his office, and threatened to return to Chicago after six months of empty promises about improving the facility.