" They acquired submachine guns, ammunition, a Geiger counter, pistols, and other supplies.They approached the desolate, silent, dead and ruined city, described solemnly by Virgil as "like a storm at sea, but solidified," with twisted, melted and charred wreckage.Lucius Fox had been demoted to company president.Terrorist Bane interrupted the assembled board meeting, and took three individuals hostage: Fox, Tate, and John Fredericks (John Nolan) who volunteered himself.In the bridge as wind and rain pummeled the bridge window, Jason removed a rusty harpoon from the wall.When my friends do it, I resent it.From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz, I should find it intolerable.(He pushes away his typewriter stand.) Hand me that washcloth please, Mr.__ , Mr.__ ?McPherson: McPherson.(He tosses the washcloth at Lydecker, stands, and turns away.)Lydecker admires McPherson""s reputation for hard-boiled, ough-nosed police work: "The Siege of Babylon, Long Island.Come out, wherever you are...You""re gonna go to cockroach heaven." Kirsten""s neighbor Dottie (Maxine Stuart) knocks on their door and complains about the cockroach spraying - and riling up the other tenants:Oh, well, now, you ought not to do that.