While Bruce Wayne (also Val Kilmer) was touring the electronics division of his successful Wayne Enterprises, he was detained by crackpot, nerdy researcher Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey) who was obsessed with brain waves - he had devised an elaborate, computerized invention that "beams any TV signal directly into the human brain.Melik: "And if you""re captured, you don""t know anything.Why, they could orture you for months.What could you tell them?"Miles: "Only my name, rank, serial number - and YOUR name."Dr.Orva: "Miles, you""ve got to help us!"Miles: "I’m not the heroic type, really.I was beaten up by Quakers....I never get involved in anything where I could be tortured."When Federation Security Police (wearing red-leather uniforms and motorbike helmets) surrounded the house and seized he doctors, Miles was told to take action - to flee to the Western District and join the rebels.The one that sent you down the road to Shitsburg.This? Well, this was mine." He told the Recruiter as he was wheeled in for surgery - strapped onto a stretcher: "Just promise you""ll do right by me.He can tell you what George Washington said, by heart.AndBoy""s Stuff""s got the swellest stuff in it." To settle the matter between his two choices (Miller or Hill), Hopper flips a coin.When the coin stands on edge and he happens to see an article praising Jeff Smith""s heroics, he decides o appoint Smith - a harmless choice (and hence, easily controllable as a puppet)." After some weeks in the West Indies, when Elsa begins flirting with Michael - he is "gettin"" into more trouble.