Fran expressed that she wanted to be part of the decision-making by the men, and that she wanted to learn how to fly the helicopter if necessary, to serve as a back-up pilot.He is drinking and deliberately closed off from the outside world, haunted by his liquor-induced memories of the choppers, gunfire and the war.""Jason"" was knocked out of the upper barn window, but held on to the floor, crawled back up, and attempted o pull Reggie and Pam with him." Because it""s "stuffy" in the house, she invites him to a "picnic" in a provocative,double-entendreladen conversation, linked to him by drinking out of the same glass:Alicia: It""s too stuffy in here for a picnic.He understood how Ox was drawing ideograms to communicate - wavy lines (water), closed eyes (sleep), sun in sky (time duration), now = until, horizon (big or great) and snake (the Amazon).