TheTiamatrescue ship arrived to dock with theGrendeland evacuate the survivors.Suddenly, Uber-Jason""s fist burst through the hull, and the hole in the steel created a sucking vacuum, wreaking havoc as it pulled everything out the opening.American cities were ablaze with pinpricks of blazing light.Perry White announced to Warfield that he had convinced the city""s bankers to secure a loan, with which he had now attained a controlling (or majority) share of the newspaper - to protect it from "predators.Cotton: Cody calls chargin"" roadblocks ""unscientific.""Big Ed: It ain""t safe havin"" a crackpot givin"" orders.About time somebody took over.Cotton: Who, for instance?Big Ed: A very good friend of mine.Me.Cotton: Where d""ya want the body sent?Two fisted, Cody is drinking very delicately out of a teacup.Rivaling Cody""s authority, right-hand man Big Ed complains hat they are huddled up in a mountain cabin against the cold - "holed up here like a bunch of gophers" with "a sackful of dough...they are apes.Chimpanzees to be more precise.They are harmless, friendly, and by all reports, extremely intelligent and sophisticated creatures." However, they needed to know where Taylor""s spacecraft came from and how the animals came to be aboard it.Producer/director Aldrich""s brutal, fast action, paranoid film with a series of disconnected scenes, was based upon pulp fiction writer Mickey Spillane""s 1952 sensationalist detective best-seller of the same name (the seventh in his series of eleven books).