"Back at the Forbidden City, one of the surviving but wounded mutant humans reported their defeat to Mendez and Alma, who were playing a game of checkers." She pleaded to leave the lake cabin and go back to the hospital by the next morning, fearing what her powers might do - and then levitated a nearby TV and flung it against the wall behind Dr.I used to ask her sometimes, but she""d only laugh and say she""d given it away.A very great admirer.She would never tell me who.Paula pulls the dusty drape covering her aunt""s regal portrait (wearing a gown) to reveal her beautiful aunt: "That""s as he Empress Theodora.In actual fact, Stewart had been in a pre-war western, but it was a comedy spoof - director George Marshall""sDestry Rides Again (1939), playing the role of a pacifistic, unarmed Western hero.[Note: the gift of a fedora was an acknowledgement by writer Kasdan of the film""s noirish roots in 1940s crime dramas.