But Carina noted: "One star's missing." She urged everyone o quickly disembark: "We have to find the Trident to save Henry." At the spot where the missing star should have been located, she found an unglowing, dull red gemstone atop an outcropping....Europe about o blow up and all I can get out of my foreign staff is a daily guessing game.I want some facts, Mr.Bradley!...Any kind of facts.There must be something going on in Europe beside a nervous breakdown." When Bradley offered to be sent to Europe, Powers rejected him because Bradley was an intellectual economist and not a hard-nosed reporter:I don't want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables.[Flashback: While 13 year-old Clark Kent (Dylan Sprayberry) was riding on a schoolbus and being bullied by teenaged classmate Pete Ross (Joseph Cranford), the bus had a flat tire as it was crossing a bridge, and it careened over the side into a deep body of water...Lewis, you're gonna kill us both, you son-of-a-bitch, before we ever see any water." When they reach the peaceful water's edge, Lewis philosophically contemplates the view:Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.Its screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, a Ukrainian-born Hollywood screenwriter known for previous hits includingThe Westerner (1940), the remakeBlood and Sand (1941),The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Hitchcock'sLifeboat (1944).