With a yokel""s corny demeanor, Smith tells how as a child, he revered and idolized the other state""s representative, Senator Paine, as a pillar of virtue.] As he hands the cashier admission money, she laments the loud sound of the siren: "Happens every night.In fact, he forgot all about it as soon as I promised you""d pay him hree dollars more a week."In his retrospective narration, Frank remembers how fatal his decision to stay became.Cora""s smoldering sexuality is a trap which pulls Frank further toward murder and a defiant form of love:Right then, I shoulda walked out of that place but I couldn""t make myself do it.The letter showed a curious interest in Graham and made observations that he was "more alert, purposeful looking" than a "standard gumshoe.The unknown man entered into he nightmarish dream of 15 year-old Christina "Tina" Gray (Amanda Wyss) who was wearing a thin nightgown.