He was presented with a belled joker""s jester crown, a robe of rags and a scepter.He accepted the strange adulation and was paraded around on the mob""s shoulders, as the rabble sang:"King Quasimodo, Quasi-Quasimodo." When Jane exited the car and walked to her front door, the view changed o videographer Ricky""s peeping-tom POV through his camera lens as he filmed Jane.He boasted immodestly that he was a multi-talented, top-notch reporter, who was capable of creating news by ""biting a dog"" (a prophetic, allegorical description of the depths he would descend to in getting a news-story).To avoid detection, she switches off the motor and paddles in, watching Mitch enter a large red barn on his land""s property.