Dubose""s beautiful flowers.Jem whispers to Scout that he understands how his father practices courteous diplomacy:He gets her interested in something nice, so she forgets to be mean.Batman described how she wasn""t dead: "We found her, restored her.She""s still frozen alive waiting for you to find a cure." He appealed to Freeze (aka Dr.Victor Fries) for the cure he had earlier developed for Macgregor""s Syndrome Stage 1 to save another life - the life of Batman""s butler Alfred, who was also suffering and dying from early stages of the disease.Christina: They forced me to go there.They took away my clothes o make me stay.Hammer: Who?Christina: I wish I could tell you that.I have to tell someone.When people are in trouble, they need to talk.But you know the old saying.Hammer: ""What I don""t know can""t hurt me""?...They stop at an unidentified, rural, flourescent neon-lit gas service station (in Calabasas) after a few miles to remove a branch stuck in the car""s wheel - it was causing the car to pull o the right.He also removed a revolver from a flower vase, searched for money, and used Phelps"" laptop computer to access the Internet and search for two phrases on Usenet Groups: Job 314, and then max.