This was Karloff""s second performance as the creature.Plot SynopsisIn the film""s prologue, the camera pans toward a light shining in the window of Lord Byron""s estate on a stormy dark night as thunder crackles." The two stopped at a memorial statue, dated 1983, of a dog ("Rover") and cat ("Tabby") pet.He continued: "They all died within a few months eight years ago, every dog and cat in the world.It was like a plague.The disease that killed them was a mysterious virus brought back from outer space by one of the astronauts.He knows that since he has been married for seven years, he is entering the phase when married men""s eyes and attentions are empted to wander for extramarital adventures, but he has been faithful.The scene was a shabby hotel room, where Gennady Zosimov (Ion Caramitru) in a blood-stained T-shirt with a presumedly-dead hooker on the bed, was desperate and distraught, speaking to Russian godfather/mobster Anatoly." And then he revealed the identity of the project leader who had disappeared - Indy""s own father!Indy feared that his father was "in over his head" when he arrived at his father""s ransacked house.