The fanciful, introductory foreword to the film explains:There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South.Look.It""s a new car!")a news-report about the US President (Jack Warden) visiting with dignitaries in the Oval Office from the Republic of ChinaWith he owner deceased, attorney Thomas Franklin (David Clennon) and his associate Ms.He also slyly identified Ned as a potential cuckolder scoring with his wife - and discreetly encouraged him to "do what""s necessary" (which in this case meant proposing his own murder to "Matty"):Edmund: You""d never believe the dorkus she was with when I met her.Wyatt returns to town, wakes up he mayor, and offers to take the Marshal""s job immediately to tame he community of Tombstone [its name symbolizes death], bring decency o the wild land, and seek revenge - legally - for the killing:Mayor? Is that Marshal job still open?.[Debra (voice-over): "It was a pretty one-sided conversation."]Debra received a cell-phone text message from her little brother, telling her that her family had been camping for four days in West Virginia, and were still alive and driving home.