Each of the flashbacks is an idealized construct of her.[Whether the real Laura measures up to his adoring memories is open to question.] He begins with their dining together "the night before her twenty-second birthday.Just we two, happy, making plans for her future." But first, he recalls, from his point of view, when Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) was still a young aspiring career woman five years earlier when she first approached him in the Algonquin Hotel dining room where he was having lunch.General Zod discovered a second Soviet astronaut, and commented: "What a fragile sort of life form this is," before snapping his lifeline and floating him away.He identified Olson, living in Damascus, as the man who bought the bomb.Shortly after, the CIA downloaded Olson""s computer files, showing a payment of $45 million dollars to Olson from someone named Dressler...A Giant Robot!""From Out Of Space...A Warning And An Ultimatum!""Strange Power From Another Planet Menaces The Earth!""The World Faced With Destruction By Strange "Men" and Demonic Machines From A Distant Planet!"This cautionary science fiction parable began with the landing of a spacecraft on DC""s Ellipse in the early 1950s.