Ollie: (meekly) Yes sir.Sheriff: Well, it left ten minutes ago.They are pursued by gun-fire as they flee the town, creating a swirling dusty cloud that follows behind them.Werdegast tells the couple that he is going to Vizhegrad and then on by bus, like them: "I go to visit an old friend.[Later, Michael violently beats up guards in a judge""s chambers to prove the point.] The famed lawyer Bannister ("he""ll get you out of anything") offers to hire the unemployed, "able-bodied" sailor as a deckhand on his cruise yacht bound on a pleasure cruise for the West Coast and San Francisco (via the Panama Canal and Mexico).[The predicted nuclear holocaust of Judgment Day had not occurred as predicted in August of 1997.] It opened with the voice-over of Los Angeles transient worker and 20-something, post-apocalyptic leader of worldwide resistance, John Connor (Nick Stahl), who was talking about the prophesied war against the machines, while living "off the grid":The future has not been written." Claggett boasts about his winning luck: "He""ll need more than a rabbit""s foot to catch up with me.I""m more than likely to own this whole she-bang before the night""s over.Then you""ll be working for me, Frenchy." She offers sandwiches and hot coffee o the players in the upstairs cardroom as they gamble during the next deal: "It""s all or nothing, I always say.