During a cellphone call with Ned, Spidey freaked out thinking that the 'glowy' thing in Ned's backpack might explode if exposed to an X-ray machine at the Monument.His absorbing, flamboyant, overwrought potboiler films were noted for their glossy and excessive style, soap opera-ish and brightly-colored film noirish characteristics, and exaggerated and overheated emotions.Carl begged for time to get money from European banks to be wired to a threatening Valestra, but then hurriedly fled with Andrea for Europe to hide out ("If I don't pay him back within 24 hours, they'll find us and they'll kill us both.From his files, the reluctant Murtaugh learned that Riggs, who carried an impressive weapon (9mm Beretta), had worked in the Phoenix project (US Special Forces) in Vietnam: "Assassination stuff," and that he knew martial arts ("Tai-chi and all that killer stuff"): "I suppose we have to register you as a lethal weapon.