This is really gonna hurt." She appeared to scream in agony as he hacked with the cleaver, and the scene turned to black.In he next scene, police cars with sirens surrounded the house.Clarice - with both hands intact, was outside searching for Lecter, who had apparently escaped (and cut off his hand to release himself).A close-up of her blistered face ended the scene.Meanwhile as she slept, Laurie was experiencing flashback dreams about her childhood, in which her adoptive mother Mrs.[Later in the ghetto massacre scene, other flashes of light in window frames are the firings of machine-guns.]Always off-kilter, he hallucinates about his vision of an allegorical rain that will cleanse the dirty, mean streets:May 10th.Austin Sloper (Ralph Richardson), a wealthy widowed physicianLavinia Penniman (Miriam Hopkins), his flighty widowed sister still in mourning over the death of her Reverend husbandLavinia is invited to remain for the winter.