4 years EARLIERAt the start of the flashback, Professor Humbert Humbert, acting as narrator, speaks (off-screen) in a distinctively-cultured, Continental accent behind images of a Trans World Airlines plane flying over Manhattan and a Hartford/New Haven train pulling into a station in northern New England.Meanwhile, a disconsolate Jack entered an inn where he traded his magical, ornate compass (with a black cover) for a bottle of rum.Meanwhile, Wayne made one final attempt (without a rope, the same method used by the child) to escape the Pit.Miguel Salazar (Antone DiLeo).He called out with a bullhorn for survivors ("Hello, is anyone there?") of an unknown catastrophe in the small Florida city, streets littered with wind-blown dead palm fronds, crashed cars, a rotting corpse covered with crabs, cash, trash and newspapers (headlined: "THE DEAD WALK").He heard desperate bleatings of Hoggett""s nearby flock of sheep.The Narrator commented:"The pig knew it was against the rules to leave the farm.But something was definitely wrong."Against orders, Babe left the farm area to investigate unusual bleating noises: "At any other time, the pig would""ve been tickled pink by his first visit to the sheep fields.