He retires to his bedroom to lie down while everyone listens to his accomplishments from his college yearbook: "Captain of the Crosscountry Team, Head of the Debating Club, Associate Editor of the college newspaper in his Junior year, Managing Editor in his Senior (He slams his bedroom door shut.Nobody was killed, although Jackson and Cullen were able to escape from the wreckage.The next morning, a pursuit was headed up by local "humanitarian" Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel), liberal, compassionate and non-chalant but feeling pressured by the governor during an election year to quickly find the fugitives.[They were projections or illusions created by the mutants to prevent the invasion.] The soldiers in the gorilla army were aghast and agitated by the scene of "brutal butchery." Out of pity, Gaius encouraged Ursus to shoot the suffering scouts, but he disagreed: "I can""t order them to do what the Lawgiver has forbidden.Alongside the city swimming pool the next day, Jake sits in his own shiny convertible as Joey, talking to Vickie through he pool""s chain-link fence, asks whether she""d like to meet his brother ("Jack.The Hitchcock-like suspenser was a convoluted, twisting courtroom drama-mystery adapted by Lawrence Marcus from Agatha Christie""s classic four-character short story "Traitor""s Hands," first printed in 1925 in the British magazineFlynn""s,and then published in the 1930s and 1940s in both the UK and US as "The Witness for the Prosecution.