

Upon his parole, 22 months later, despite orders from her domineering mother that she should never see Sailor again, Lula runs off to reunite with Sailor.

Sailor is convicted of manslaughter and sent to the Pee Dee Correctional Facility.

Lemon announces that Marietta just paid him to kill Sailor and draws a switchblade, but Sailor defends himself, brutally beating and smashing his assailant's head into the floor in front of Lula, Marietta, and several other people. At a formal dinner party in Cape Fear, North Carolina, outgoing 23-year-old Elvis Presley freak Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage) is accused by a goon named Bob Ray Lemon ( Gregg Dandridge) of making sexual advances on Marietta Fortune ( Diane Ladd), the mother of Sailor's 20-year-old girlfriend Lula ( Laura Dern).
