The camera descends on a sleepy view of a small, languid own, Maycomb, Alabama, in the early 1930s at the height of the Depression.He found Fox dead -- hanging in mid-air from a wooden beam in the upper barn rafters, pinned there by a pitchfork through her neck(# 3 death)(off-screen).The classical Greek mythic elements of the film have also been commonly observed:the Electra complex of thefemme fatale- exhibiting an overwhelming possessiveness for her beloved fatherthe memorable horseback ride to scatter her father""s ashes from an urn held at her waist, resembling empowered female Hippolyta (with a magic girdle)the disturbing murders of her husband""s younger brother and her own unborn child, resembling Medea - a figure of great intelligence, skill, plotting manipulation, and vengeful cold-blooded murderObsessed with possessing her newlywed husband entirely to herself, she committed three ghastly murders to have her way - the deliberately neglectful and passive drowning murder of her own crippled brother-in-law, a do-it-yourself miscarriage by tumbling down stairs, and her own suicidal murder via poison to jealously implicate (after her death) a romantic rival - her own adoptive sister/cousin.His poster-decorated bedroom was stocked with movie and dinosaur toys and other models.He was interrupted by his mother, Karen Mitchell (Judy Greer) to get himself ready.Gray and his older, girl-obsessed teenaged sibling Zach Mitchell (Nick Robinson) were about to be transported from heir snowy, two-story surburban Wisconsin home to the Dane County airport by their parents, with their dad Scott Mitchell (Andy Buckley) driving.In the confusion during flight, Pike""s horse accidentally knocks down and tramples a defenseless woman.