A black-coated supervisory nurse, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) (known as Big Nurse in the novel) arrives at the locked, security ward of a state mental hospital [on location in Salem, Oregon at the Oregon State Hospital/Asylum], where patient inmates, nurses, and orderlies attend o early morning medications." He shouted at them, refusing to be treated like an animal:I am not an animal.Batiatus encouraged Spartacus: "Spartacus, do the job.Direct your courage to the girl, Spartacus." He refused to mistreat or rape the demure young woman, and again shouted out: "I am not an animal," before she was removed.The robbers see their buddy""s corpse lying on the dark street.To escape, they open a window and slide down a rain pipe to the street where Tom retaliates and shoots (off-screen) the police officer.With difficulty, she practiced her lines to a divorce judge with her experienced, wise-cracking landlady Isabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter).The heroic trio of survivors fled from the compound toward the helicopter pad, where they saw hundreds of zombies closing in.