The gender swap brought an entirely new angle to the film, making it more than a satirical view and social commentary on the operation of a newsroom under the management of a hard-boiled, smart-alec managing editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant in this version, Adolphe Menjou in the earlier film), and providing an additional feminine-romance angle."Back at the Elm Street house, Spencer began his nightmare while watching television, as a Teen on TV (Johnny Depp), in a Public Service commercial about the dangers of drug abuse, held up an egg and fried it in a sizzling pan on a stove: "This is your brain - on drugs.And then she unleashed more firepower - she separated his left leg from his body at the knee, and blasted a hole in his right chest and also through his skull and mask! Finally, she tossed his machete into his midsection.Kirk contacted Spock and learned about revised estimates about the strength of the transporter beam on the severely-weakenedUSS Enterprise(the earlier two-day estimate about repairs was o deliberately deceive Khan); the stranded crew on Regula was beamed back, but still under the threat of Khan.