He basks in the illusory power and influence of the gangsters he associates with: "It was a glorious time.She feared he would live a lonely life.He wrote down a list of the people and things that had deceased or changed since the 60s: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mama Cass, the moon-landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall.Postulating hat Khan""s genetically-enhanced blood might also regenerate or reanimate Kirk from death, he removed one of Khan""s frozen crew members from his cyro-tube (and ordered it kept alive in a medically-induced coma), while placing Kirk""s body into the sealed cyrogenic capsule to "preserve his brain function.Rough-hewn, but handsome gumshoe/police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) of the Homicide Bureau examines the interior of Lydecker""s apartment until the writer calls to him (from off-camera) o join him in his lavish bathroom:McPherson: Nice little place you have here, Lydecker.