All scum").After a funeral ceremony led by religious leader Dillon (Charles S.Dutton), the bodies of Newt and Hicks were cremated in the facility""s furnaces, while in another location, the alien erupted from Spike""s convulsing body ("a new beginning").Couldn""t we?She has little interest, concern or awareness of the challenges they face, and doesn""t want to just sit out the war.The excavation was headed up and funded by Professor Roger Wilson (David Calder) (an old friend of "Rick" O""Connell""s), working with 21 year-old student Alex O""Connell (Luke Ford) [who it was later revealed had dropped out of school without his parents"" knowledge], who had discovered the Bembridge Journal (written by Sir Colin Bembridge who went searching for the tomb 70 years earlier, and whose skeletal corpse was in the ruins).Director Charles Vidor lavished admiration on her in this film, helping her to reach her apotheosis as the reigning Hollywood 40s love goddess with this immortal role.Erik was convinced to join Xavier and Raven at the CIA""s Division X, where studies were underway to investigate the application of paranormal powers for military defense.