Tom: (dour-faced) (to Bill): Looks like you""ll have to look for a new river.Bill: I""ll run on this river if I""m the only passenger on the boat.After a fade-out, Bill receives a vaguely-worded telegram (that arrived four days earlier) from his son, announcing the time of his arrival and how he can""t be mistaken:William Canfield Sr.I don""t wanna be one of them" - and Steel obliged by blowing his brains out.Hysterical from the bite, Miguel fled to the Winnebago "Ritz" where he was restrained by John, and Sarah knocked him out with a large rock.After saving him from sliding off an icy slope, Bruce left him to recover in a sherpa hut.After a total period of seven years, according to Alfred, Bruce returned to Gotham City (in a private jet from Khatmandu) o show the citizens that "their city doesn""t belong to the criminals and the corrupt."" Although the film appeared during the post-Watergate period and exhibited an obvious distaste for government intervention, its optimistic, loving portrayal of alien encounters was unusual, and set it apart from most science-fiction alien-encounter films of an earlier era.Christopher Reeve was paid a salary of $250,000, plus $25,000 a week -- it was one of the highest salaries paid to an unknown actor for a major feature film.