"Tracy resisted and fought against him with her martial arts skills: "You can""t scare me anymore...This is my dream, and I do what I want." Freddy thought otherwise: "Might be your dream, but it""s my rules!" To escape from his control, she held her forearms over burners on he hot stove, causing herself pain -- and her screaming forced herself o wake up.During questioning, he asserts to the juvenile officer: "Nobody can help me."The housemaid answers all questions directed toward Plato, and explains how his mother habitually deserts him and his father left the family long ago:It seems like she""s always going away somewhere.When the nurse took off with his cigars, he begged and pleaded: "Can""t I have just one?...A few puffs after meals? Please." He jokingly proposed murdering her "some dark night":"When her back is turned, I""ll snatch her thermometer and plunge it through her shoulder blades.I want quiet! Quiet from everybody," as his chair topples backwards off his majestic perch on the platform.