Michael: I""m not staying.Elsa (with a pained look): (begging) You""ve got to stay.On second thought, after being asked by the Bannister""s servant-maid Bessie (Evelyn Ellis) to remain and help the vulnerable "child" or damsel in distress ("She needs you bad, you stay"), Michael agrees to work on board and accepts a job along with Goldie.I""m all that""s left." She provided some optimism, and prophetic foreshadowing: "The universe is a big place.And you don""t know who""s out there.And even if you are the last, you""re not alone."Resuming his job at theDaily Planetin Metropolis (and looking for an apartment in the city) after an absence of five years (although no one suspected the remarkable time congruence with Superman""s absence), Clark was welcomed back by old friend - the newspaper""s photographer Jimmy Olsen (Sam Huntington), and gruff, cynical editor-in-chief Perry White (Frank Langella), characteristically barking orders.Frog-voiced McGann is dismayed by his young charge: "Call Paine, call Saunders, call the Marines, call somebody.Gore Verbinski, 168 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened with mass hangings of men, women, and even children - anyone suspected of associating with pirates, orchestrated by evil Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company (EITC).I had to be free to understand that all those years I dreamed of escape was because I was limping through life.