The water-rights scandal at the heart of the film expresses how ecological rape of the land has occurred in outrageous land-development schemes that redirect the water""s flow.Knox and Vicki vainly researched Bruce Wayne""s past, finding "no photos, no history, no nothing.Who is this guy?" While following him, Vicki saw Wayne enigmatically lay two long-stemmed roses on a stretch of sidewalk at Pearl and Phillips Streets.I was doing everything like in a dream.Like I was watchin"" myself, but I couldn""t help it - like a dream." She punctuates her entire rendition of the events of the day of the shooting with eating episodes (two rare hamburgers and lemon meringue pie, for instance), capped by her final line:Doris:.But not quite so obedient.Johnny: No?Mundson: My other little friend will kill for me, Johnny.Johnny: Well, that""s what friends are for.(He releases the catch in the stick""s knob - it snaps into a rapier with the blade exposed)Mundson: (toasting) To us, Johnny.