Vader was summoned to speak privately to the commanding ruler of the galaxy, the Emperor (Ian McDiarmid/voice of Clive Revill) himself - a giant blue hologram, although the Emperor""s face was hidden within a dark, hooded robe.Most of the characters were hiding serious problems and issues.Cracks in the facade of the high-society members began to emerge - suicide, financial ruin due to a business take-over, love, infidelity, economic pressure, class conflict, the dawn of the talkies, divorce, aging and fading careers, and alcoholism all adversely affected their interactions." They met with awaiting Secretary Hank McCoy for an appointment made on short notice.He announced the apprehension of Mystique, and predicted she would lure Magneto to break her free.The greatest problem, however, was regarding the controversial information he had seen in the file.The major government-supported pharmaceutical company, Worthington Labs (located on Alcatraz Island) headed by Warren Worthington II (with a mutant son himself), had developed a mutant "cure" - a mutant antibody to suppress the mutant ""X"" gene permanently.After work, the men swim in a nearby pond to clean up.A black retriever plunges in alongside.Bill searches frantically for some salve or medicine to soothe Abby""s hands in a doctor""s medicine wagon parked outside the owner""s house - in an area forbidden to him.