- a twenty-five year long occupation she believes impoverishes all of them and endangers Alice's chances:No, I'm not doin' any hintin', Virgil, but of course when you get well, you can't go back to that old hole again.[Dream-Vision: In the environment of his family's Kansas farm, Zod appeared before Clark and explained heir past history." Because it's "stuffy" in the house, she invites him to a "picnic" in a provocative,double-entendreladen conversation, linked to him by drinking out of the same glass:Alicia: It's too stuffy in here for a picnic.The story was taken from Dashiell Hammett's 1934 detective novel of the same name, with a married couple that was supposedly modeled on the author's relationship with longtime love and playwright Lillian Hellman.At he same time, Miss Tate was having a 1 pm lunch date with Will in a downtown restaurant.She opened up, describing her fears of losing her son ("I think he's finally tired of my bulls--t"), while Will expressed his loving support ("I love you just he way you are") and believed that she could recover from her problems and her mysterious "back story.