Due to the mandate of Starfleet""s regulations, determined in a Starfleet Command tribunal headed by Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller), it was decided hat Kirk was to be relieved of his command of theUSS Enterprise: "They""ve taken the Enterprise away from you.There he is to this day, sittin"" over there with his scissors...Lord knows what he""s doin"" or thinkin"".When the town clock strikes five, Jem and Scout run down the street to meet Atticus.On the way to town, Jem spins another cautionary tale about another neighbor - Mrs.Henry Lafayette Dubose, a peculiar, elderly woman who sits on her porch in a wheelchair and is cared for by a black woman named Jessie:Listen, no matter what she says to you, don""t answer her back.The film""s lasting influence has been seen in the imitative graphic violence of the films of Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, and others.He was working with his assistant Dita Mandy (Donna Murphy).Cross traversed the rugged landscape (and crossed over a formidable mountain), arriving two days earlier than expected at an Alaskan cabin, operated by one of the other nine superagents involved in Operation Outcome.