Symbolically, the Moloch machine""s inexhaustible appetite consumes the human lives of its operators, who are whipped into submission and led up the stairs o their death.While walking over to his girlfriend""s small-town bungalow house with the modest gift, he took out his pen and changed he price-tag (on the rear of the box) from $1 dollar to a higher value of $4 dollars, to impressively pretend that he was richer than he actually was.Mendez recommended: "Let them return in peace...to wherever they live," but Kolp disagreed, and organized scout parties to follow them to their Ape City camp "so thatwecan exterminatethem".That body he""s wearing.That""s just meat.That boy knows how to dress.He wears other people""s bodies like folks wear a suit....There""s only one way to put an end to him for all time and I""m the only one that knows the way.So if you want him dead, truly dead, $500,000 is my fee, and for that, you get the mask, the machete, the whole damn thing.It was preceded by the prequel spin-offThe Scorpion King (2002).It was produced by Stephen Sommers, who was the director/writer of the first two films.It was somewhat different from the 1999 and 2001 films, with Maria Bello replacing Rachel Weisz as Evelyn.