The camera zoomed into the window of a penthouse at the top of a round Century City LA high-rise where a scantily-clad young woman, later identified as 22 year-old Amanda Hunsaker (Jackie Swanson) was snorting cocaine and ingesting pills.She denied that she had shouted at him: "Screw you, creepo." Before he gave her a lift eight blocks to her home, he defended her honor against local drunks, and also learned she was an abandoned mother by a Jamaican man - the single parent of a bi-racial son born out of wedlock named Stephenson or "Steps" (James Francis Kelly III).When he refused, she successfully appealed to Perce to defy Langland and release the horses that had already been captured.Almost mesmerized by the flames and her newfound power, Sister Falconer begs the fleeing crowds and Gantry (who attempts a rescue) to remain calm and faithfully rust in God during the conflagration, and then perishes when she runs back into the burning tent that collapses onto her.