At six years of age, Scout""s innocent reflections help her to contemplate and understand her circumstances.Mr.Hastings (Russell Collins), a postal telegraph agent in a shack next to the tracks, rises from his rocking chair and reacts o the oncoming train with quizzical bewilderment: "Stopping.It was based on left-leaning Howard Fast""s 1951 fictionalized novel about a slave revolt in Rome between 73-71 BC led by a gladiator.He reveals hat his right hand""s fingers are tattooed with the letters: "L-O-V-E." He looks to the heavens from a window of the prison while planning his next maniacal, obsessional act - another serial killing:Lord, you sure knowed what You was doin"" when You put me in this very cell atthisvery time.His hold-up of the store is paralleled by her attempted physical attack on him.When they reach a grassy grove of trees in the shade, Clyde begs the seductive and eagerly aggressive female to "slow down" and "cut it out," pushing her away and getting out of the car.