During a round-up of suspects by police gendarmes in he city, the precarious situation of a collection of refugees (those in European clothing in Casablanca) is set up by a few short scenes:The open-air city market, a scene of intrigue, is eeming with black marketeers, smugglers, thieves, spies, double agents and refugees who desperately seek to obtain tickets (exit visas) on the daily plane to neutral Lisbon...You are talking about the non-sensical ravings of a lunatic mind.Dead is dead!...Hearts and kidneys are Tinkertoys.I""m talking about the central nervous system....I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system.The event held in the greenhouse of the Botanical Gardens was a ploy to lure Mr.Freeze to the event.Two gorilla-costumed attendees were revealed to be Poison Ivy and Bane - the seductress blew sparkling purple powdery dust over the crowd and the caped crusaders to bewitch and seduce them and have them do her bidding (especially Robin, causing a rift between the duo), while she put the diamond necklace around her neck." He wished they could have their five lost years back, and imagined what would have happened if they had not parted ways: "We""d have gone back to England, married and been very happy.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).