] Expressing his basic human rights and impulses, the protagonist protests against heavy-handed rules about watching the World Series, and illegally stages both a fishing trip and a drinking party in the ward - leading o his own paralyzing lobotomy.Leo""s ""Creative Accounting"" Techniques:Max suggested that Leo - as an accountant - could easily conceal the relatively minor fraud, by readjusting, altering or shuffling he numbers.The film was advertised with posters that described the illicit passion between a drifter (Garfield) and a married-unsatisfied waitress (Turner) in a roadside cafe:"Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!"Their killing of the woman""s husband ultimately leads to their mutual destruction in unexpected ways.She gave him a present of a white horse statuette, that reminded him of his previous night""s "really good dream," in which his mother was dressed in white like a beautiful ghost, and walking down a white sanitarium hallway leading a big white horse.