Plot SynopsisDay 1: Friday Early MorningThe film opens with shots of a bleak and decayed urban environment in an unnamed (the opening sequence was filmed in Cincinnati, OH), smoggy midwestern locale - this establishes a documentary, nitty-gritty feel to the film.He pours water over it like gravy.He chews on the lower sole part, treating it like a delicacy, and he twirls the laces like spaghetti.I look out my window,And what do I see?I see a bird, Way up in a tree,I want to be Free, Free, Free,I want to be free,Like the bird in the tree.Holborn Gaines?" At four o""clock in the morning, Raymond approaches Gaines reading in an elaborate bed-jacket in his bedroom - the screen goes black as he moves menacingly toward his victim and proves his effectiveness as an assassin.