Martin envies the boy's passionate paganism, in comparison to his own empty life, where he has ceased intimacies with his wife and is plagued by nightmares of ritualistically slaughtering children in Homer's Greece, wearing the Mask of Agamemnon. Given an aspirin serving as a placebo "truth drug", Alan further reveals that one evening Jill tempted him to go to a Swedish pornographic film at a local cinema, where he was shocked to see his father, who forced him to leave the cinema.
Martin envies the boy's fervent paganism, contrasting it to his own barren life where he has abandoned intimacy with his wife and is tormented by nightmares of ritually slaughtering children in Homer's Greece while wearing the Mask of Agamemnon. Given a placebo aspirin as a "truth drug", Alan further reveals that one evening Jill tempted him to attend a Swedish pornographic film at a local cinema, where he was shocked to discover his father who forced him to leave the cinema.