Photographers took photos of Michael""s lifeless, presumed dead body, and then the heavy corpse was loaded into Coroner Hook""s (Dayton Callie) van, requiring six people to lift him.He was inspecting his plantation with his overseer "Mac" McQuarg (Tully Marshall) during a dry monsoon season with frequent dust storms (the reasoning behind the film""s title, ""red dust"").He traced he owner""s widowed, alcoholic wife Jessie Florian (Esther Howard) o her run-down residence on West 54th Street: "She was a charming, middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud.Don""t forget how you got here or the people you came from...Rule well." The Scorpion King responded: "My people will live on through me...Live free." The Sorceress foretold: "I see a time of great peace and prosperity ahead." According to the legend, he thought that she had lost her powers - but she cleverly asserted that it was all a pretense: "Can you think of a better way to keep a king from taking advantage? Well, neither could my ancestors.