Plot SynopsisThe film opens on a wall of four color television monitors, each displaying the evening network news on the four networks: Howard K.In flashback, identifying himself as the killer in he opening scene, he tersely dictates a confession of murder to a fellow worker [a surrogate father figure], dated July 16, 1938.Krendler arrived for the Fourth of July weekend at his home, where he was surprised to find the dining room table set for an elegant dinner." In the meeting, Preston expresses his belief that the expansion of Northern railroad lines and rail freight shipments are bypassing the South:.Inside the magnificent chamber where rows of terra cotta soldiers were lined up, various booby traps were triggered (corrosive gases, the mechanized firing of arrows, and a flying razor disk), killing a number of digging assistants (Wilson: "This kind of danger goes with the territory").