When he crashed his vehicle, he was confronted by a group of Secret Service agents and firmly told by one of them, Steve Fulbright (Stephen McHattie), that he was "in the middle of a federal investigation" - and the criminals shouldn""t be apprehended at this time: "We wanna know where he""s going with what he""s got and who he""s selling it to...To say the least."The power to the cabin was cut off, as Clay warned everyone ("There""s a killer out there"), including a distrusting, disingenuous Trent.The camera pulls away sharply, identifying the car""s location - it is parked on a street in a seedy Mexican border town.Ben-Hur is sentenced into exile to the slave galleys, and forced to join other prisoners chained together on a forced march across the desert in the searing hot sun to Tyrus.