Matthew in the Bible.The message sets the film""s moral tone and forecasts its eventual outcome:...for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.Matthew: 26-52In the short opening scene of the film seen in long-shot, a car drives into a gas station.He is one of the few American journalists left in Phnom Penh when the city falls to the Khymer Rouge guerrillas in 1975.Voorhees (Jason""s mother) (now with her head attached to her body) emerged from he water and dragged her into the lake from the canoe.After his short visit to the hospital, Jeffrey walks moodily back along the same route.He returns to the open field near he woods where, as he goes to throw more rocks, he discovers a severed and decaying human ear (covered with crawling ants) in the tall grass.