Identifying himself as Mr.Crane who was working on his dissertation, he visited the museum and viewed Blake""s original 200 year-old watercolor painting - a back view of the dragon with his tail wrapped around the woman.Ritter gloated that he had official written authorization for Reciprocity from Cutter - and ultimately from the President.As he attempted to pull the cable back up, it abruptly snapped and Spock was accidentally dropped in a free-fall into the lava-spewing volcano, yet he survived.And then he proposed to pay Creighton Duke his bounty fee, if he provided conclusive proof of Jason""s living existence, and confirmed death.The time frame of the film""s plot is set over a little more than one twenty-four hour period in status-conscious mid-50""s Los Angeles, and confined to a limited number of locations.