DeVriess: You, uh, saw yourself on a carrier, or a battleship, no doubt.Keith: Yes sir, I had hoped that ---DeVriess: Well, I onlyhopethat you""re good enough for theCaine.Keith: I shall try to be worthy of this assignment, sir.DeVriess: She""s not a battleship or a carrier; theCaineis a beaten-up tub.After 18 months of combat, it takes 24 hours a day just to keep her in one piece.Keith was assigned to follow the smooth-talking, sarcastic Lt.Keefer for a tour of the obsolete and "beaten-up" tub.Although heCainehad been designed to be a minesweeper, it hadn""t been used to sweep mines in a year and a half:The first thing you""ve got to learn about this ship is that she was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots.When she reached in and pulled out a hissing cobra on her second attempt, she told him: "I see your fate, hollow king.We""ve gotta find a way to get him out.In the meantime, if the press gets hold of this accident, our stock will crater.So make sure this Mr.Dillon stays invisible.This could prove useful for us in the future."In an Oscorp laboratory, Dillon""s corpse was lying on a table surrounded by flickering and sparking electrical lights.Tie-less, half-dressed homicide Police Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates the suicide of fellow cop Tom Duncan (in charge of the Record Bureau) after being summoned: "When a cop kills himself, they want a full report.He reported a sighting of theMillennium Falconin the asteroid field, but Vader was unperturbed: "Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral.