"They learned to their shock that the "end of the world" was just three hours away when the first launch sequences would be initiated." Suddenly, Gordon recalled hat he had been Bruce Wayne""s hero from many years earlier, when he put a comforting brown coat on his shoulders."On "the day set for his departure for foreign shores," the Yellow Man is carted in a rick-shaw to the wharf, nodding blessings at people passing by.As tears come to her eyes, a policeman appears in the scene and stands and looks at her.When she tightly grabs the railing and contemplates suicide by jumping over, the policeman raps the iron railing with his nightstick and shocks her back into reality." After all the guests have left her "perfectly hideous party," an inebriated Alicia on a drinking binge sits alone at the table, eyeing the cool, tall, well-dressed man as they finish the last of the drinks.