Winton could taste the suffocating presence of death coming from where they were across the diner. He saw the waitress’s prayers for self-destruction blinking in the madman’s face like a frenzied neon sign begging the brut to: KILL ME- KILL ME – KILL ME.
Winton could tell that she was clueless to the fact that she was praying for death at the altar of the murderously insane.