Carol and David Marcus were not there - they had escaped to he planet of Regula, although Chekov and Terrell were found hiding - and were still being used as Khan""s spies."When she tries to stop David""s hasty retreat from her and argue that her mistake wasn""t intentional, she grabs one of his ails and rips the back seam of his tuxedo: "If you""d only wait while I explain.Vincent""s conducted the murders in retaliation for (1) Zasa""s hitmen personally attacking him in his own home when he was sleeping with journalist Grace Hamilton (Bridget Fonda), and (2) conspiring to assassinate Michael during a massacre of mob bosses in an Atlantic City hotel meeting (by a helicopter/machine gun attack).Romero""s choice of a black lead actor was due to his low budget, but was still revolutionary - the character was the first African-American to play the heroic lead role in a horror film.As the film transitioned from black and white to color, Max was described as a "desolate man" as he appeared to limp away from the gravesites of his wife and child.