Remaining mute and mostly unresponsive, Tommy was also introduced to Dr.Matthew Letter (Richard Young) and told about Pinehurst.Unlike the state institution, it was without guards, and "basically, you""re your own boss" - due to its honor system.Really."Millicent then explained to her uninvited cousin Hattie Loomis (Louise Closser Hale) that her invitations had all been filled for her "small" dinner party.As commanding warden, Saito insists that all the men work without regard to rank:All men will work.Your officers will work beside you.This is only just.For it is they who betray you by surrender.Your shame is their dishonor.It is they who told you: ""Better o live like a coolie than die like a hero."" It is they who brought you here, not I.Therefore, they will join you in useful labor.That is all.Stoically and stubbornly, Nicholson keeps his men standing in the hot sun, rather than letting his officers work side-by-side in physical labor with the enlisted men.[The illusion of its rising is created by the descent of some of the backdrops.] As they are about to explore, a violent explosion (volcanic?) sends them in all directions.To rest their fatigued bodies after a "rough trip," they stretch themselves out on the ground under blankets.