In an attempt to drive off and escape in his Oldsmobile, he discovered that he was entrapped at the cabin due to a destroyed bridge.He asked about the politics of the Man of Steel: "Does he still stand for truth, justice, all that stuff?" The willful, determined Lois insisted on working on another story - the "catastrophic" blackout event, but was reprimanded by Perry: "This goes for everyone.When she expresses regret at the murder, Spade doesn""t want to hear it: "Stop it.He knew what he was doing.Those are the chances we ake." The detective explains how the remorseless widow will benefit from his life insurance policy:With ten thousand in insurance, no children, and a wife that didn""t like him.Joe: And supposin"" I don""t?Ryker: You and the other squatters...This is a tense, violent confrontation between the fence-building homesteaders, and the open-range land cow ranchers - an allegory of the settlement and progressive civilization of the West.This taut, ightly-scripted, minimalist film tells the tale of a solitary, stoic, honor-bound marshal/hero, past his prime and already retired, who was left desolate and abandoned by the Hadleyville townspeople he had faithfully protected for many years (symbolically - during the World War II years).