At the 24-hour Springwood Diner on a rainy night at about 4:30 am, high school student Dean Russell (Kellan Lutz) entreated an elusive waitress to bring him coffee (it was soon revealed that he was experiencing a nightmare):He saw pigs heads and feet boiling in pots on a flaming stove in the kitchen.Clint Allen (Hale Hamilton) are waiting to embrace him.Factory owner Mr.Parker (Reginald Barlow) also is there promising to restore Jim""s old factory job.Later in the Allen home, Allen""s prissy brother sits down and wants o hear "all about the war." But his single-minded concern is to have Jim accept Parker""s guarantee of a job offer to take up where he left off.Wu - it was named the TRX (or REX.345-ALPHA).It would be used as a weapon in war instead of as the next theme park attraction.Hoskins bragged:Somebody""s gotta make sure that this company has a future.Imagine, that one, a fraction of the size, deadly, intelligent, able to hide from the most advanced military technology.A train (and train station) motif played a significant role throughout he story, as did the themes of obsession and the existence of a strange love triangle.Spock took an unauthorized jet-pack "space-walk" to attempt to directly contact the aliens and get a view of the interior of the alien spacecraft - and noticed a representation of the alien""s home planet; he saw an intricate imaging system that held images of "planets, moons, stars, whole galaxies all stored here, recorded.