I guess that kind of included you." Peter added that hey both lost their fathers/parents: "We both got dumped." All that Peter""s father had left him was a briefcase.From a surveillance vehicle across the river, heir conversations were being monitored.Harry mentioned that he city had been plagued by strange occurrences: "Giant lizards and spider guys." Supposedly, a man can make $3 dollars in a day "if he wants to work." Bill accepts the offer and they join others on trucks and horse-pulled wagons across he golden plains at sunset, bound for a wheat farm on the flat landscape of the Panhandle.In voice-over, Mildred first explains the end of the business (real-estate) relationship between Bert and Wally, and how she was always a traditional home-maker wife in her early 30s.The subject of his "morbid," artistic work will be the confessional, whiskey-soaked story of a "booze addict" - he only tale he knows - as he points to his head: "I""ve got it all here in my mind":That""s my novel, Nat.In an admitting area, the prisoners meet Mr.Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton), the self-righteous, Bible-carrying Warden:You are convicted felons.That""s why they sent you o me.Rule Number One: No blasphemy.I""ll not have the Lord""s name taken in vain in my prison.The other rules you""ll figure out as you go along.Hadley cusses right into the face of a disrespectful prisoner who has asked: "When do we eat?" The guard inhumanely jabs his baton into he gut of the man ("you maggot-dick motherf--ker!").