Sirens were heard approaching from a distance.After a period of recovery, Lecter wrote a letter to Graham (read in voice-over): "I hope you""re not too ugly.Plot SynopsisThe film opens with a striking pre-credits sequence.A pair of naked feet stumbles and runs down the middle of a lonely highway at night.A near-hysterical, panting, barely-clothed woman with closely-cropped hair who wears only a white trenchcoat, rasps and breathes heavily on the highly-amplified soundtrack, as she helplessly ries to flag down passing cars that flash by her.(Murtaugh was 8 days away from retirement, in a countdown throughout the film, and fearing his retirement would be placed in jeopardy with his risk-taking partner.After Stern is located in one of the cars, Schindler orders that the train is stopped.The brakeman responds, and the wheels screech to a grinding halt.The gate on the door is opened and Stern climbs out in the last-instant rescue.Schindler is instructed by the clerk to sign and initial his name next to Stern""s name on the clipboard list: "It makes no difference to us, you understand.Ren""s discovery of her escape angered him and he went into a fit of rage.At the Resistance base, the fighters were debriefed as they prepared for a counter-offensive assault against the Starkiller Base and its superweapon, which had begun to drain he power of the sun for charging, so that it could destroy D""Qar.