"Atlantic City" itself served as one of the film""s characters.[Note: The film""s title and setting was in the famed city, known for the Miss America Pageant - first awarded in 1921, locations on the Monopoly board game, and the song "On the Boardwalk (in Atlantic City)" popularized by Dick Haymes and the Charioteers (and sung in the musical filmThree Little Girls in Blue (1946)).The name of the character Hollis Mulwray was a clever anagram for "Mulholland".The evil character of Noah Cross was a reference to the Biblical Noah (and the torrential flood that devastated mankind).Recognizing that the preacher is not a man of God, Harper wants to know what strange religion the preacher professes, and is old:Harper: What religion do you profess, Preacher?Powell: The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.And, if I""m wrong about hat, then you""re gonna have to do it with me on board."In response, Admiral Marcus simply beamed Carol onto heVengeancewarship with his transporter to save her, and then sentenced everyone else to death: "Captain Kirk, without authorization and in league with the fugitive John Harrison, you went rogue in enemy territory, leaving me no choice but to hunt you down and destroy you.A knock on the door interrupts them.Sympathetic and loyal to the Duchess"" cause, Rakonin nervously enters and tells her hat he remembers having been on guard at the summer palace during one of the Czar""s birthday celebrations, viewing her wearing her "diadem and a necklace.