In the meantime, Fowler had also ordered nuclear submarines from the East coast to put to sea with first-strike Trident 3-B missiles.He said it was a gift from his mother, to serve as a token reminder to keep a promise: "That I would come back to her.There was a brief recap of Kal-El""s crash landing in a wheatfield in Kansas, his encounter with adoptive parents, his summoning by the green crystal and trek to the North to create the Fortress of Solitude, Clark Kent""s (Christopher Reeve) subsequent employment as a reporter in Metropolis at theDaily Planet, and Superman""s first public demonstration when he rescued fellow reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) from a crashing helicopter.(He also believed that she had taken advantage of his absentmindedness.) He threatened her with embezzlement and promised to turn her over o the police.Then, he learned that she had divided the bonds equally with an unnamed accomplice.Intercepting a strange telephone call (from a scar-faced man later identified as Nunheim), he suspected who had assisted her.