" The men reveal more of their believable personalities by their reactions to the community of mountain folk they meet in this first scene:the virile, dark-haired, dare-devil, savvy, somewhat repulsive leader Lewis (a patch on his jacket identifies him as he Co-captain of a skydiving groupthe chubby-overweight, comical, middle-class salesman Bobbythe soft-spoken, decent, liberal and intellectually-minded, gentle, guitar-strumming Drewand the thoughtful, complex, timid, mild-mannered, pipe-smoking, curious EdFrom behind a dilapidated, squalid shanty building, he first primitive hillbilly emerges, suspicious that they are from he power company.Ullman, that""s not gonna happen with me.And, uh, as far as my wife is concerned, uh, I""m sure she""ll be absolutely fascinated when I tell her about it.The doomed man replies: "Listen, Mac.You""re drunk, and I""m a sick man.This pistol-packing farce is becoming a sort of nuisance." Quilty dons boxing gloves to "settle this like two civilized people getting together and settling something...She""s not dead at all.She""s not buried in the East like you said, either.She""s alive....How come you told Aron and me she died?"Although Adam admitted the revelation (and confirmed hat he had kept it a secret to avoid the family pain, by spreading he belief that she had moved East after her twin boys were born, but he hadn""t heard from her since), Cal pressed for more evidence of his mother""s ""bad-ness"": "What was she like? Was shebad?" Adam described his wife from years earlier:"I never really knew what she was like.]In the newsroom offices of theNew York Morning Globewith a spinning metal globe-shaped sculpture atop the tall skyscraper, a camera zoomed into one of its windows, into the busy publishing offices.