Wickett's (Louise Hampton) place just across from the school:A long time ago, yes.A long time.Things are different now.(He hears other voices: "Chips at Brookfield.Discipline, Mr.Chipping, discipline," and the last names of boys during a typical 'call-over.')He remembers how he arrived in 1870 at Brookfield Boys School as a shy, withdrawn 24 year-old Latin master, wearing a bowler hat.Alex jumped from the collapsing scaffolding to a temple column, accidentally causing a cascading/domino effect from one column to the next (similar to his mother's toppling of museum library bookcases in the first film): "Whoa!" The final column broke through a wall, inadvertently saving his parents from drowning, while Alex claimed to them: "I can explain everything.Dr.Pavel stepped forward o convert the reactor into a 4 megaton nuclear bomb, to destroy Gotham, by separating it.He announced his plan ("the Alan Parsons Project") to the US President, and then went further - detailing how he would destroy more major US cities every hour on the hour, unless paid a ransom of $100 billion dollars.