1: After “Murdered Man” Walter tries to go straight and makes a clay statue using a common department store mannequin. He’s ridiculed by the other beatniks at the Yellow Door who say it’s “lifeless” and he’s lost his talent and is a hack, thus forcing him to commit his next heinous crime.

2: At the art exhibition during the finale of the movie I’d have one of the guests hear a muffled cry from one of the statues.