..A mind weapon.A new frontier of psychic warfare.That was Stalin""s dream...(The skull) was not made by human hands...The body we found in New Mexico was not the first.We""d already dissected two others from similar crash sites in Soviet Union...The legends about Akator are all true.Early men could not have conceived it, much less built it.It was a city of supreme beings with technologies and paranormal abilities...The New Mexico specimen gave us hope.Unlike the others we""d found, its skeleton was pure crystal.A distant cousin, perhaps.Maybe they, too, were sent to find Akator.Perhaps we""re all searching for the same thing.There is no other explanation...The skull was stolen from Akator in the 15th century.Whoever returns it to the city temple will gain control over its powers."The Russians had taken Oxley prisoner as well, although he could only mutter incomprehensible words, due to the effects of the crystal skull: "He is the divining rod that will lead us to Akator.I""d have to find some way of earning a living, to begin with.I suddenly realized how much I""d grown to depend on her.All hese expensive tastes I""d acquired while I was at the top.Now, big tennis had finished with me and so, apparently, had my wife.I can""t ever remember beingso scared.I dropped into a pub and had a couple of drinks.As I sat in the corner, I thought of all sorts of things.I thought of three different ways of killing him.I even thought of killing her.That seemed a far more sensible idea.And just as I was working out how I could do it, I suddenly saw something which completely changed my mind.Inside the mountain, however, Thorin ordered the entrance to the Mountain to be sealed off with large stone boulders o make it more secure - to keep out the starving Lake-town refugees whom he feared would want the treasure inside.Groot osses a knife to his comrade and Dunson stabs the Indian to death underwater (punctuated by musical chords).] Barry, who is uncredited as the screenwriter in the film, wrote he part specifically for the talents of Katharine Hepburn who played the hit role in the theatre.