The shadowy, lyrical and cynically-bleak tale presented the American dream gone sour, in a story that concluded with a prolonged shootout." Anna expressed her own feminist opinion with a questioning statement: "But do you all hink that women are more lowly than men?" She also mentioned how the headstrong and chauvinistic King, unfamiliar with challenges to his supreme rule, might need to be confronted: "Perhaps it""s time somebody did tell him a thing or two.Cornelius added: "Where we come from, apes talk.Humans are dumb." He wasn""t sure, however, where exactly they came from, although he claimed that Dr.Milo, their genius colleague, was the one who salvaged the spacecraft ("studied it and half-understood it").Cholo prepared to blast Fiddler""s Green with missiles from a site overlooking the city called Mount Washington, by loading two six-pack missiles insideDead Reckoning.