Grief-stricken Jamie treasured a shoebox with a picture of her mother Laurie at 17 years of age, who had recently died in a car accident.Fat Lou alerted theSolaristo heir condition: "We need military and medical at the gate.We've got a big problem here.A real go-f--k." As he started to describe the problem, Fat Lou was hacked to bits with Jason's autopsy blade/machete(# 17 death)(off-screen) - blood splattered on one of the monitors.A second inter-title presented a condensed version of the film's central story line:Man - puny but irresistible - encroaching forever on Nature's vastnesses, gradually, very gradually wresting away her strange secrets, subduing her fierce elements - conquers the earth!This is the story of a woman who came into the domain of the winds -The Opening Dusty and Desolate Train Ride:The film opened with a distant establishing shot - a view of a train crossing a prairie ("the domain of the winds"), with dust and smoke trailing behind.A second strand of the plot involved Dr.Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) who appeared to have survived her sacrificial watery death in the previous film when bereaving Cyclops was visiting Canada's Alkali Lake...We gotta find our own way." They were lacking in food, water, and a radio, and were unsure of their destination.Near Pittsburgh, when they flew over a deserted shopping center concrete building with a big indoor, two-story mall, they decided to land on its roof and find refuge from the marauding, flesh-eating zombies.