In the meantime, he had been relegated to becoming a ""prostitute"" - to sell his services to the highest (or lowest) bidder until he found a way to return to a larger news organization:Now, then I find myself in Albuquerque with no money.[Metaphorically, the skeletal brontosaurus represents the scientist""s stripped-down, calcified, dead life lacking youthful vitality and activity.Dupree, South Dakota.Various shots show the empty streets and subdued, quiet life in the South Dakota town.Holly""s soon-to-be partner in crime, 25 year-old Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen), wearing a tight white T-shirt and blue jeans, appears on his early rounds collecting garbage on a dump truck in the quiet town of Ft.Three of the four are based on factual history:THE ""MODERN"" STORY (A.D.1914):(Amber Tint)In early 20th century America during a time of labor unrest, strikes, and social change in California and ruthless employers and reformers - a young Irish Catholic boy, an exploited worker, is wrongly imprisoned for murder and sentenced o be hung on a gallows...We represent he law!" In the streets among the bodies of the dead, the children play-mimick shooting each other with make-believe pistols with great delight.