" Meanwhile, the elite lived in a fortified walled-off city known as Fiddler""s Green, bordered on three sides by rivers and lorded over by Paul Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), a rich and powerful feudal overlord and opportunistic super-capitalist.The credits (obscured by the background action) played over a sequence of a series of mishaps (Rube Goldberg-style) occurring on Metropolis"" city streets: a voluptuous office assistant (later identified as Lorelei Ambrosia) in a low-cut white/pink polka-dot dress walked by - oblivious to her effect upon others as she set other events in motion: an errant roller skater lost her balance and propelled a hot-dog wagon into a row of three phone booths that fell like dominoes, wind-up penguin toys from a Penguin Vendor (Henry Woolf) waddled off in different directions, a seeing-eye dog ran after another dog - leaving its Blind Man master (Graham Stark) staggering into the street and grabbing the handle of a line-painting machine, a Man in a Cap (Gordon Rollings) fell into an open ditch, a Century Savings Bank robbery criminal (Peter Wear) fled the scene, a wayward policeman""s bullet struck a tire on a passing car on Third Avenue and sent it into a hydrant on the curb, where the car""s interior filled with water - threatening to drown the Man Trapped in Car (Roy Alon).] He injected his wrist with the last remaining bit of Chimera culture ["using his own bloodstream as a petri dish"], and then made plans to travel from Sydney to Atlanta to deliver them safely [to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)], timing his trip so that it would take no longer than 20 hours (the time beyond which he couldn""t be saved by the cure).She was violently jerked, dragged and pulled under the water beneath the surface of the tub -- into a bottomless well or abyss below.