There""s a Confederate pistol in her lap under her shawl and she""ll kill you quick as look at you.Come on.Although Scout acts slightly disrespectful toward the woman as she passes, a few moments later her father (on his return from town) calms things by taking an interest in Mrs." He was interrupted when British Ministries"" Basil Exposition (Michael York) informed him that his father had been kidnapped -afterthe knighting ceremony." Swanwick was angered by her line of questioning, considering it a conspiracy theory: "Superman acted like some rogue combatant o rescue her, and people died...you don""t have to bow down to nobody")Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a strong black convict, cooly defiant, incarcerated for assault and battery - for almost beating a white man to death when a gun was pulled on him; in the ruck, he was singing the blues classic spiritual "Long Gone"; once married with a 5 year-old child when he left home, he was often angered that he was always told to "Be nice"When Jackson ordered the "nigger" to shut up, Cullen lashed back: "You call me nigger again, Joker, and I""m gonna kill ya!" Just then, their truck was sideswiped and crashed over a guard rail barrier."To punish them," Chris ran into the woods to stay out all night, so that her parents would worry and be "sorry for what they did.