..A mind weapon.A new frontier of psychic warfare.That was Stalin""s dream...(The skull) was not made by human hands...The body we found in New Mexico was not the first.We""d already dissected two others from similar crash sites in Soviet Union...The legends about Akator are all true.Early men could not have conceived it, much less built it.It was a city of supreme beings with technologies and paranormal abilities...The New Mexico specimen gave us hope.Unlike the others we""d found, its skeleton was pure crystal.A distant cousin, perhaps.Maybe they, too, were sent to find Akator.Perhaps we""re all searching for the same thing.There is no other explanation...The skull was stolen from Akator in the 15th century.Whoever returns it to the city temple will gain control over its powers."The Russians had taken Oxley prisoner as well, although he could only mutter incomprehensible words, due to the effects of the crystal skull: "He is the divining rod that will lead us to Akator.In Hermione""s clenched hand, Harry found a ripped page from the library describing the fearsome Basilisk, a giant deadly venomous snake capable of living for hundreds of years: "Instant death awaits any who meet this giant serpent""s eye."Virgil peered out their upper floor window to glance across the street.The first view of the film""s star was in an open window at the run-down, honky-tonk, hillbilly bar-nightclub known as the Blue Dragon Cafe, where she was employed.Her sexual longings burst forth as she imagines hugging her sweetheart while glancing at Bud""s many pictures plastered above her dresser.Multiple ""prologues"" would be rehearsed simultaneously with a rotating group of "prologue" performers, organized into units as dancers, singers, musicians, that would populate inexpensive, "ready-made" stock routines or shows that could tour the country visiting different cities, and regularly provide rotating entertainment in the movie theatres to fill the growing demand:"When you""ve got one drugstore, you charge 25 cents for aspirin.