In a flat-voiced voice-over, as he looks out the slats of his venetian-blinded window and lies on his bed, he reveals hat he is desperately "waiting for a mission" and praying o get back into the N."Although disdainful of her blind-date partner Shelly, Vera let him join her in a borrowed vehicle - Rick""s yellow VW Beetle - to drive to a local convenience store.When Clark heard the TV news report in the bar, he unhesitatingly raced to pull open his shirt and reveal his Superman costume while on-the-run in the city street.Tear gas and gunfire were used to violently force the resistant residents to leave their apartments (and go to emergency shelters) and give up their dead loved ones.