Assumindo que sua motivação no filme é semelhante àquela vista na novela oficial , a resposta mais simples é que ela vê o Pistoleiro como uma poderosa figura masculina alfa, que inspira os dois elementos do medo primal e um sentimento irresistível de dominância sexual masculina.
Tracy drove with carefree abandon, her eyes slitted almost shut against the windstream, her hair whipping about her ears. Chuck wondered for a moment why they were not seeing Tracy’s dream directly from her point of view. Are we all conditioned by movies and television to see outside ourselves? he wondered. But a sudden movement from Tracy brought his attention back quickly.
She had turned to look to the side of the road, and after a blurred transition he saw what she was seeing/dreaming.
A black-clad gunslinger with vivid, rather unhuman eyes was riding a beautiful horse in dreamy slow motion by the side of the roadway, pacing the swift sports car easily. He stared at Tracy with a fixed, insolent audacity as he galloped easily along.
No começo ele é simplesmente uma figura ameaçadora (o que faz com que sua adrenalina seja bombeada), mas depois, com a ajuda dos técnicos de fantasia, ele usa a força para evitar que ela seja agredida por um grupo de homens. Claramente, ela acha este cenário tanto angustiante (no nível intelectual), mas confusamente erótico.
Chuck saw Tracy on the ground before the house, surrounded by the seven men in scarlet hoods. Her hands were bound. The men began to close in around her. They held large silver hypodermics in their hands, much as a knife is held. Chuck’s mouth felt dry.
“Approaching the upset point,” the technician murmured. “Switch to manual, Cee Em, please.”
The black-clad gunslinger rode up to the scarlet house, dismounted in a smooth, practiced, effortless move and started toward the grouping of red-cloaked figures surrounding Tracy.
The men in scarlet turned away from the recumbent figure of Tracy, reacting to the oncoming gunfighter. They ran at him, their silvery hypodermic needles raised high as weapons. But the gunslinger drew as he moved, his gun firing, the sound of the explosions booming and distant, echoing and fading.
Ele finalmente confirma sua primazia colocando-a na cama e fazendo amor apaixonado por ela.
Os cineastas estão tentando deixar claro que, em um nível subconsciente, ela foi poderosamente influenciada pelas cenas que viu no filme. Ela tem sentimentos mistos de repulsa e atração ao Pistoleiro e em seus sonhos eles inclinam a balança mais para o segundo através de técnicas de controle da mente.The mist swirled and Chuck now saw Tracy on the floor of a white bedroom. Mist heavily obscured the outer edges of the image, but the gunslinger strode in and pulled the wide-eyed video reporter to her feet. A hand on her waist, his other hand unraveled the knot of the scarlet cord that bound her wrists. Throwing the cord from him contemptuously, he pulled Tracy to him and kissed her hard. But she broke away, backing toward the white bed.
He wheeled toward her, his dark figure blurring into merely an abstraction of motion, a dark stream across the Mind Flowing screen.