" The passengers make out during the ride, ignoring him as if he were part of the inanimate machine.Travis checks them out in the rear-view mirror.After the ride, he drives his cab through a geyser stream from a broken, erupting fire hydrant, washing the filth off his windshield.The sight prompted Ferdinand to express his existential fears to the Cow (voice of Charles Bartlett):Ferdinand: "I can""t take it anymore.See below for more about The Overlook.]Plot SynopsisThe film opens without narration or commentary featuring only Wendy Carlos"" funereal-sounding synthesized adaptation of the "Dies Irae" (Day of Wrath) theme from the fifth movement (Dream of a Witches"" Sabbath) of Hector Berlioz""sSymphonie Fantastique.The lone band of men led by Pike Bishop (William Holden) have come to the end of the line and no longer are living under the same rules in the Old West.A knock on the door interrupts them.Sympathetic and loyal to the Duchess"" cause, Rakonin nervously enters and tells her hat he remembers having been on guard at the summer palace during one of the Czar""s birthday celebrations, viewing her wearing her "diadem and a necklace.