Brent screamed back at their hypocrisy - he knew the bomb was a real defensive weapon: "Is that bomb out there, is that an illusion? It's operational, isn't it?" Mendez called them "the keepers of the Divine Bomb.During the elevator ride, she savagely wiped at her mouth and then vigorously brushed her teeth in her bathroom." In the next scene, Superman (with a noticeably darker costume) flew swiftly above the Atlantic waves toward the tanker, and crashed directly into its hull, produced a giant hole and caused an oil slick on the water's surface.These thoughts caused him to be distracted from his scholastic studies and he failed his medical exams.His sophisticated girlfriend, Helen St.James (Jane Wyman), wearing a leopard coat, drops by with presents for his recuperative weekend:the new Thurber with comical jokes and pictures, a nice quiet little double-murder by Agatha Christie, cigarettes, chewing gum.