Zira said that they were "peaceful creatures, happy to be here" and asked to be unchained - they were applauded as celebrities.Garris found the bloodied counselor quarters, as his officers searched the grounds.Officer Thornton (Michael Nomad) was killed with a dart in his forehead(#16 death), and he fell off the pier into a canoe.He picked up the object that appeared to be calling to him to go on a pilgrimage.The next morning, Clark""s mother unexpectedly found him standing motionless in a distant wheat field - the location of the spaceship crash.BackgroundRed River(1948) is a classic and complex western (and considered by many critics to be one of the ten best westerns ever made).