Cal told his father that he believed hat his mother, who was supposedly "in heaven," was still alive after abandoning him and the family:"My mother - she""s not dead and gone to heaven, is she?."As he struggled, Dan became melded or merged with the bike, transformed into a mechanical monster hurtling forward, and he crashed head-first into an oncoming diesel truck.A big-shouldered, one-armed stranger John J.Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) steps off the Streamliner train at the lonely, isolated crossroads of the Southwestern desert town of Black Rock.Both victims were bound and gagged, with a rubber ball painfully inserted into heir mouths and wrapped with long strips of Scotch tape around their heads.