It was a majestic, idyllic entrance as Bick drove Leslie hrough the outer gates of Reata to view the immense, isolated but imposing three-story Victorian home in the distance, surrounded by grazing cattle.] The reporter locates Stark in small Kanoma City (in Kanoma County) in an unnamed state - "a typical hot, dusty, backwoods county seat," speaking outside to a group of citizens and rallying for them to vote for him as County Treasurer.[In a subsequent scene shortly later, his mother screamed when she discovered his drowned body inside the transparent waterbed after she pulled back the comforter cover.Lauderdale...Laughlin: Who flies crates like these anymore?Project Leader: No one.These planes were reported missing in 1945.Laughlin: But it looks brand new.Where's the pilot? I don't understand.Where's the crew? Hey! How the hell did it get here?Laughlin poses unanswerable questions, as the leader finds personal effects in the cockpit of one of the planes - sepia photographs and a 1945 calendar from a bar in Pensacola, Florida.She was forced to sheepishly confess o Cora that her plan had failed.The enraged Cora was tempted to immediately leave town and strand Letty there, but then reconsidered.