] But the Kryptonian Law Council refused to listen and dismissed his claims.Suddenly, General Zod (Michael Shannon) and his armed, loyalist Rebel followers instigated a coup d""etat.Szell has come to New York City to retrieve the fortune in diamonds from a safe deposit box.Szell kidnaps Doc""s brother, lone, idealistic Jewish graduate student Babe Levy (38 year old Dustin Hoffman as a mid-20s grad student), who knows nothing about his brother""s involvement.They rehearse the crime - the evidence reveals hat Archer was caught off guard - he was shot at close range with one bullet, and his overcoat ("the blast burnt his coat") was buttoned with his gun unfired and tucked away on his hip.As the US Army soldiers attended to her and Luthor impersonated an ambulance driver arriving to transport her away, dim-witted Otis fiddled with the missile""s control panel, resetting the vector headings to numbers written on his arm: the first to 38, the second to 67, and the third to 117.