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" Vexed, he explained that he didn't like being misled to view a dance performance: "If I accept an invitation to a party, I do not expect to find myself at an audition," but then inquired why she liked to dance in a classic rhetorical exchange - and seemed to take an interest in the charming red-head when she answered that dancing was more important than life itself:Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?Vicky: Why do you want to live?Lermontov: WeIl, I don't know exactly why, but, uh, I must."Revealing warmth under his sleazy facade, Ratso invites Joe to share the filthy condemned, East Village tenement building where he lives: "The X on the windows means the landlord can't collect rent, which is a convenience, on account of it's condemned.And then while accessing Luthor's stolen (and decrypted) disk drive, in a folder marked META_HUMAN, he accidentally came across files on four immortal "metahumans":Wonder Woman (aka Diana Prince) - including recent surveillance photos of Diana in Paris, and an 1918 photograph of her as immortal warrior Wonder Woman in Belgium, serving on a superhero teamFlash/Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) - with superhuman speedAquaman/Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) - an Atlantean warrior with the ability to live underwaterCyborg/Victor Stone (Ray Fisher) - with a cybernetically-enhanced bodyBack in the Fortress of Solitude, as part of his diabolical plan to destroy Superman, Luthor dragged General Zod's corpse into the Genesis Chamber.Phelps feared that if the list of covert operatives in the countries of Eastern Europe was sold, it would be bid upon by "third world terrorists, arms dealers, drug lords, any and everybody who'd love to get rid of long-term coverts like us.You haven't got anything to worry about.I'm not gonna let you down because I can't afford to." During a soliloquy, he obsessed, tyrannical director looks out the office window toward an unseen street, counting on the success of his last show to take care of him through retirement with a respectable income.