They were only about three days away from breaking through.Zion""s military Commander Lock (Harry J.Lennix) (and the love-interest of Captain Niobe) called for all crews and hovercrafts, including Morpheus""Nebuchadnezzar,to return to Zion for an emergency meeting - to formulate a counter-strategy.Cagney""s varied career featured him in both tough guy roles, such as Tom Powers inPublic Enemy (1931)and Cody Jarrett inWhite Heat (1949), as well as in song-and-dance roles such as this one - and perhaps his most famous musical role was as real-life Broadway impresario George M.He described an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies:The last time anyone counted, 53 million people were dying every year, a hundred-fifty thousand every day, a hundred and seven every minute, and that was in normal times.The wind rifled the pages back to Monday, October 24, 1955, a year earlier, to flash-back to events that led up to the tragedy." [Marsdits is an disguised reference to Raymond B.Ditmars, the best-known reptile expert in the country at the time.]Pike is reluctant to say farewell to the "company of men" in the expedition that is on a "pursuit of knowledge," as he leaves with his watchful bodyguard/valet "Muggsy" Murgatroyd (William Demarest).