Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world's foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution to create a "world without weakness" hrough Cross Species Genetics (or regeneration).He had experienced a series of mediocre post-war flops, including RKO's romantic comedyMagic Town (1947), the musical comedy anthologyOn Our Merry Way (1948)from UA, another romantic comedyYou Gotta Stay Happy (1948)from Universal,and MGM's melodramatic-adventure filmMalaya (1949)...I-I-I wanna make love with you," but she was uninterested.She only smiled and insensitively laughed at him.Jake then recanted his desires and headed upstairs crying, where he was murdered when an upraised meat cleaver was brought down on him(# 15 death)(off-screen).Your grandfather - he died in Australia in a penal colony.And your father, he was a good man too.Bad accident that.And your mother?Sean: She's dead.America, when I was twelve.Father Lonergan: (piously) I'll remember her in the mass tomorrow, Sean.(sternly) You'll be there, seven o'clock.Sean: Sure I will.In one of the film's most fanciful, breathtaking, painterly scenes of the picturesque, pastoral Irish countryside (and the entrance scene for the film's star actress), Sean walks to an emerald-green grassy area of foliage where black-faced sheep are herded by a collie.Kitty quipped sarcastically: "Wow.That's really something, Lex.It's freakingGone with the Wind." Suddenly, the lights went out, and the pool glowed and bubbled.One side-effect was a massive blackout that occurred on the East Coast - during Luthor's experimental test (in miniature) to grow land in the ocean off the coastline.