Connor""s field-test of a squirming hydrobot at the base confirmed that they could control the signal - and the machines.Then, when Lige arrived home, she was ultimately able to reconcile with him - she confessed the killing to him and he explained how the sand (via the wind) had justly covered up the corpse.And my only regret is that it is all terribly true." To his credit, Griffith later (by 1921) released a shortened, re-edited version of the film without references to the KKK.He found Cabot being treated in a makeshift medical facility, and witnessed his death - Cabot""s final word was: "Spinnaker.Admitting hat he was "too old for this s--t," "Crash" acknowledged that his contract had been purchased, and he was being returned to the A-league to mentor the green young upstart LaLoosh.