A homeless, unemployed drifter named Raymond (Sonny Shields) appeared at their front door asking to "earn a meal," where Ethel confronted him with a shotgun, crassly: "Holy s--t! Who the f--k are you and what the f--k do you want?" She proposed cleaning the s--t out of the chicken coop in exchange for a meal.During a question/answer period, Loomis denied feeling responsible for the deaths of at least 15 victims: "I was very nearly a victim myself.Her father helplessly watches as she swims away, and calls for his staff to "lower the boats." Detectives are dispatched to find her - "Watch all roads, airports and railway stations in Miami."The next scene is introduced by a sign reading:Night Bus to New York.In the Miami bus station, detectives can""t believe she would take a lower-class night bus."We""re wasting our time.Can you imagine Ellie Andrews riding on a bus?" To evade her father""s search by traveling incognito, she has another elderly lady buy a ticket for her on a Greyhound bus - a rickety, proletarian means of transportation which would be unlikely for a rich heiress." Alice fell asleep in her bedroom, and experienced an hallucinatory dream, set in the movie theatre and diner:Alice dreamed that she eventually snuck away from her house (she climbed onto her roof and dropped down, as Rick had done earlier), although she found that Dan had already left the diner.