Then only long enough to marry that kid""s mother and get run out of the place by her folks...Why do you suppose he""s livin"" in this neck of the woods if he didn""t have something to hide."]Davies begs for a promise of fairness: "Major Tetley, you mustn""t let this be a lynching...Promise me you""ll bring ""em in for a fair trial...Tetley, you bring those men in alive." But here are no promises ("I promise I""ll abide by the majority will"), and the twenty-eight men are illegally deputized (to duly take the law into their own hands) by the insolent Mapes, the deputy sheriff, against the Judge""s orders."Darabont""s film is a patiently-told, allegorical tale (unfolding like a long-played, sometimes painstaking, persistent chess game) of friendship, patience, hope, survival, emancipation, and ultimate redemption and salvation by the time of the film""s finale.The camera views the San Francisco office window (with backwards lettering of he names Spade and Archer) of cynical, realistic, and tough detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and his partner Miles Archer.During almost the entire trolley-car ride to the city, one of cinema""s most exquisitely-fashioned sequences, the camera is set in the same position, viewing the scenery as the tram turns and glides through curves - first trees and forests next to the lake, then the outskirts of the city with suburbia, factories, shops, and houses, and then he City itself...shooting his fish." The words ""Alba Varden"" sounded familiar to Murtaugh, but he couldn""t recall what it was.After meeting in a grocery store, Riggs spoke to Rika and learned that she disapproved of her boss and his activities: "There are many things I don""t like about my boss and my country.