]During a short break, he cannot stop the jerky, rhythmic movements of his nut-tightening - the trauma of work has left him with a nervous tick.Was it a reactionary message piece against imperfect, "liberal" judicial trends that let ""sicko"" criminals get away, literally, with murder? Or was Siegel encouraging audiences to empathically identify with the indiscriminate vengeance of the violent, anarchic, unrestrained vigilante ""killer"" on the side of the law who acts as an autonomous police power?The screenplay, credited to husband-and-wife team Harry Julian Fink & R.He asserts to Lon:Hud: "It was the best hing.He was wore out and he knew it....Tryin"" to get up, hurtin"" himself.He couldn""t have made it.Lonnie, any way in this world, he couldn""t have made it another hour....You don""t know the whole story.Yeah, him and me fought many and many a round together.But I guess you could say that I helped him about as much as he ever helped me."Lon: (questioning Hud""s sincerity and complicity) "How did you help him, Hud? By tryin"" to sell him out? By takin"" the heart out of him? By makin"" him give up and quit? Is that how you helped him?"In the final scene, Lon walks off from he ranch in disgust as he speaks to Hud driving next to him in his car, and decides not to follow his ways: "I""m goin"" somewhere else and work for awhile if I can happen onto a job.She returned to the US like a "wild animal" - locked in a stateroom on theBerengaria, a cruise ship, and was immediately incarcerated in St.Lucy hought to sprinkle some fire-flower juice on Aslan, but Susan old her: "It""s too late.He""s gone." But she added: "He must have known what he was doing." They noticed mice chewing hrough the ropes that bound Aslan, and Susan felt they must quickly leave to tell the others about the grave news ("They need o know").