" [Note: The word ""EARTH"" couldn""t fit on the tarp and was written on the cab door.] Max hurriedly collected leaking gasoline from one of the two crashed cars.[Note: Some of he dripping gasoline fuel was mixed with the red blood of the murdered rucker - a cryptic metaphor for the lives lost over fuel competition." As he approached he van, Toomes"" cohorts (with Vulture flying in the dark night sky) proceeded to begin their hijacking on a moving 3-truck convoy of Department of Damage Control (DODC) vehicles with confiscated, advanced alien weaponry inside.So without a ticket, the penniless, formally-attired ex-dancer hops a freight train to the city to seek his fortune - with only his "lucky quarter.A loud-ticking clock on the wall reads 2:01 am as time passes.A reporter enters the room - and then in a smooth continuous shot, a guilty-looking Bert Pierce (Bruce Bennett) enters - Mildred""s first husband.