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Getting back to the stolen plane, they paint it with politically charged slogans and psychedelic colors.

Daria pleads with Mark to travel with her and leave the plane, but Mark is intent on returning and taking the risks that it involves.

He flies back to Los Angeles and lands the plane at the airport in Hawthorne ; however, the police ( along with some radio and television reporters ) are waiting for him.

Patrol cars chase the plane down the runway.

Rather than stopping, Mark tries to turn the taxiing plane around across the grass and is shot to death by one of the policemen.

Daria soon learns about Mark's death on the car radio and drives to her boss Lee's lavish desert home, " a desert Berchtesgaden " set high on a rock outcropping near Phoenix, where she sees three affluent women sunning themselves and chatting by the swimming pool.

She grieves for Mark by drenching herself in the house's architectural waterfall.

Lee is deeply immersed in a business meeting having to do with the complex and financially risky Sunny Dunes development.

Taking a break, he spots Daria in the house and happily greets her.

She goes downstairs alone and finds the guest room which has been set aside for her ; but, after briefly cracking open the door, she shuts it again.

Upon the sight of a young native-American housekeeper in the hallway Daria leaves without a further word.

She drives off but stops to get out of the car and look back at the house, imagining it repeatedly blown apart in billows of orange flame and flying consumer goods.