 Overcome with emotion, Frances enters the room and stabs Sylvia through the heart, killing her.The boy desperately searches for an exit but Frances tells him that he can stay with her and that he does not have to be afraid.Writer Frank Caso identified themes of the film as including obsession, schizophrenia and personality disorder, and linked the film to director Robert Altman's later films "Images" (1972) and "3 Women" (1977), declaring them a trilogy.