]The film""s screenplay, by first-time scripter Bruce Robinson, was adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winningNY Timesreporter Sydney Schanberg""sThe Death and Life of Dith PranfromThe NY Times Magazine.[The opening scene is centered around everyone in the family tasting the ketchup simmering on the kitchen stove, and humming the film""s title song.Outside the cell, Cyclops fought against the prison guards but was knocked out by Stryker""s powerful assistant, Yuriko/Deathstrike.""Dutch"" proposed buying the gun, but his request was rejected, and they exchanged more reproaches - it was inferred that ""Dutch"" was being hunted by McAdam for some past wrong, possibly a cold-blooded murder:Dutch: That""s too bad! That""s oo much gun for a man to have just for shootin"" rabbits!McAdam: Or for shootin"" men in the back!Both men prepared to pull out of town after retrieving heir confiscated guns from the Marshal""s office.Their plan went awry when they found themselves calling for the elevator that Alexander Golitsyn was riding up in.