Ricky yelled after him and pleaded: "Superman, please get better...Superman, you""re just in a slump.You""ll be great again," as his ex-idol scowled and flew away.Ricky""s words echoed in Superman""s weakened mind, tormenting and torturing him - and he dropped from the sky, crash-landing in an auto junkyard, where he let out a primal scream as he sank to his knees.[Note: The plot was modeled after Los Angeles"" Fanchon and Marco production company located on Sunset Boulevard, that actually created staged musical ""prologues"" for performances in movie theaters.Encountering Uhura once again, he learned from her that she had picked up an "emergency transmission" from a Klingon prison planet - the decoded message was that a Klingon armada of 47 ships had been destroyed.Specifically, a revolutionary new Hedare Corporation beauty cream to be released in one week named Beau-line - a product of the cosmetics firm tauted to reverse the effects of aging.Lawrence: I have the same problem sir.Murray:...You""re the kind of creature I can""t stand, Lawrence.But I suppose I could be wrong.All right, Dryden.You can have him for six weeks.Who knows? Might even make a man of him.With subtle persuasion, Dryden negotiates for a longer stay of three months.Lawrence is enthusiastic about his arduous mission to Arabia: "Of course I""m the man for the job," he tells Dryden.