[Mildred""s confessional begins in a brightly-lit, daytime environment, where she was married, at age 17, to a real-estate broker and was a doting super-mom to her children in a clean, suburban home in Glendale.An innocent, small-town college student (MacLachlan) in a sleepy town discovers a severed ear, and then finds himself embroiled on the dark side of town (beyond the white picket fence).Arrius orders that Judah""s leg be unchained during he coming battle to give him a chance to survive.Their ship is rammed, oars are smashed, bodies are splintered, and their ship is boarded.Judah breaks loose, strangles one of the guards and retrieves he keys, frees many of his fellow prisoners from their chains, and goes on deck to find the flaming galley ship boarded by pirates in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Roman soldiers.He translated the inscription for them: "Death will come on swift wings to whomsoever opens this chest.