" [She threatened the reluctant Harold to comply, warning that she could take away his own "happily ever after" spell if he didn""t - a plot twist to be revealed in the conclusion.Rachel appeared on the scene at the Narrows to give Gordon the antidote.She watched as Ra""s (wearing a gas mask) activated the microwave emitter in the street, producing an explosion of pressurized steam in the area and incapacitating everyone.Knowing that he has not seen her daughter Elaine""s (Katharine Ross) portrait done the previous Christmas, she lures him up the stairs to Elaine""s bedroom.The killers then emerged on the bridge and extracted prisoner Davian from an armored van by melting its side.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).