..Your magnificent city, Father - and you the brain of this city - and all of us in he city's light...- - And where are the people, father, whose hands built your city ---?He points outside to the magnificent structures and zig-zagged buildings of Metropolis.According to the suspicious Warlock in his command-center basement, the former NSA cyber-criminal Thomas Gabriel demonstrated his expert hacking power to the Joint Chiefs of Staff four years earlier by shutting down NORAD with a laptop computer, but since then, "he just fell off the grid" after being fired and smeared." He gleefully proposed that she flash his camera with her nude breasts: "One flash, and you could light up a thousand computer screens." Zaius cautioned: "Don't look for it, Taylor.You may not like what you find." Zaius told chimpanzee Zira (Kim Hunter) that Taylor would soon find "his destiny." The opening credits played above Taylor and Nova riding along the beach, and the shocking conclusion (of the previous film), now abbreviated, in which Taylor dismounted to stare upwards, drop to his knees, and pound his fist into the sand: "Damn you all to hell!" (Note: the original was "Goddamn you all to hell"), at the sight of the spiked crown of a battered Statue of Liberty buried waist-deep in beach sand.[A similar scene occurred at the conclusion ofThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)- was it deliberate or accidental?] A blinding white light intensified until it whited out the image of Taylor's bloody fingers hanging onto the detonator.