] Their exploits were first fictionalized in the filmThe Sadist (1963), and then displayed in the 1993 TV docudramaMurder in the Heartland.The unimpressed onlookers in the room, all racist whites (including the useless doctor), were obviously affronted when witnessing he unresponsive victim""s invasion of privacy by a black man""s contact.Wilks: I""m the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs.I""m the one that has to explain.You don""t keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.Bannion: Do you want me to go upstairs and explain?Wilks: Not you.You""re a corn-stepper by instinct."A corn-stepper by instinct," Bannion is not able to understand why he is ordered to lay off the case and "stop pestering the widow," since he now realizes that Lucy told the truth: "She talks to me just once - (he clicks his finger) - like that, she""s dead." As Keogh storms upstairs to confront the saloon owner, Frenchy conspires with tiny-bespectacled Mayor Slade during a partner-less game of checkers.