The Arrival in Moscow - With the Empress:The domineering Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (Louise Dresser) was enthroned on a gaudy imperial platform before a giant backdrop of a twisted, ghoulish, two-headed, avenging winged double-eagle statue.She is told the good news that she has won the $5,000 lottery prize - it is an unexpected windfall that will prove to be the downfall of the McTeague""s lives:Agent: Your lottery ticket has won five thousand dollars!Trina: (disbelieving and shaking her head) Oh!."[Flashback: 17 year-old Clark argued with his father Jonathan during a car ride.He was frustrated that his adoptive parents wanted him to maintain the Kent tradition of farming the land, and he angrily rejected them: "Your family, not mine.He peels off bills, giving her seven hundred dollars cash - enough for the rent, a dress, and a new hat! She kisses him on the cheek as he gleefully departs, making his day.The story was composed of a montage of sado-masochistic, depraved tortures and brutalities in Tsarist Russia (of "Peter he Great and Ivan the Terrible and other Russian tsars and tsarinas who were hangmen"), including erotic images and morbid motifs.