Heartbroken, he suicidally released his grip and fell backwards into the pit overlooking the Underworld.After digging out, Evelyn pleaded to save Rick: "We've got to take him to Shangri-La.It's our only chance." They trekked there and entered Shangri-La through a cave opening, where at the Pool of Eternal Life, they met Zi Yuan - revealed to be Lin's over 2,000 year old, now-immortal mother.So they become a black sheriff, a racist own, a sex-obsessed Governor, and so forth.In addition, there are other anachronistic elements - Hedley Lamarr (a misnaming of actress Hedy Lamarr), hints of the seductive character Frenchy (played by Marlene Dietrich) inDestry Rides Again (1939), a medieval executioner, a Cole Porter song, redneck bigotry of all flavors, and a 'film-within-a-film' concept, exemplified by Lamarr exclaiming: "Drive me off this picture.The two were apprehended by Maitland's henchmen - as Maitland appeared in person.From outside, Rosewood watched as Maitland drove off with Jenny as a kidnapped hostage, and then entered the warehouse to rescue Foley from the thugs.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).