With Wolverine""s help, the entire group (including rescued students) avoided the flooding spillway as their exit, and made it to the snowy outdoors.With grand-standing tactics and Commie-baiting witch-hunting delivered from the audience, ""Joe McCarthy-ish"" Senator Iselin stands - in the background - and delivers bombastic, arbitrary rantings about the Secretary""s conclusions, as his manipulative, domineering wife in the foreground - who has fed her words into her puppet husband and is the power behind the scenes - watches his diminutive image on a live TV monitor next to her [the same events are simultaneously displayed from different perspectives].]Plot SynopsisPROLOGUEThe famous comedic opening scene - or prologue - is a marvelous, expressive one that plays without dialogue at all.Her "anxious bridegroom" and Her Majesty were impatiently awaiting their arrival.The eager Sophia was curious about the appearance of the Grand Duke (hoping he would be as good-looking as the Count himself), and Count Alexei asked her:Would you like him to be handsome?Would you like him to be better looking than all men, tall and gracious?He then reassured Sophia:Count Alexei: Well, he is all that and more.