Peter met Mary Jane for coffee when she told him that she was reconsidering their relationship, but he stunned her when he said he couldn""t return her love.[In his office, Perry White also informed Clark that a museum in Addis Ababa had been broken into, and thieves stole "a worthless piece of meteorite.Frank easily persuades Nick to borrow the car o run the sign into town to get it fixed, arguing that it needs a new design as well: "Your sign doesn""t make me hungry.And remember this: our men must always feel they are still commanded by us and not by the Japanese.So long as they have that idea to cling to, they""ll be soldiers and not slaves." Shears knows better through experience: "I hope they can remain soldiers, Colonel.As for me, I""m just a slave, a living slave."Both commanders blindly follow their own rigid military codes, soon coming to an impasse.The next morning, Saito orders "the English prisoners" to finish the bridge by a rigid deadline - the 12th day of May, working under the direction of a Japanese engineer.