Later, as the guests depart, Esther has hidden Truett's hat as a way to detain him and make him the last one to leave.She stalked the security guard who had murdered Patience and wielded a whip to question him about the murder.Caesar was ordered to "Talk!" while subjected to inhumane electrical torture - he helplessly twisted in pain, arched his back, and shrieked out loud, until he pleaded: "Have pity.He disappears from view into the darkness - an apt metaphor for his rejection.The Main Story:A subtitle card identifies the new locale for the next sequence in the film that occurs within a two-day period:A year later.While Kit works at the feedlot in town, and hrows hay to the morose-looking cattle (contrasted in a montage), he unpopular, shy, and impressionable Holly (in voice-over) describes how she fell in love with the image (rather than the reality) of the handsome, James Dean-like, white-trash drifter "from the wrong side of the tracks":Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on with my studies.