Kittridge also promised to "plea down" the charges against Hunt.Before he hung up, knowing that his specific London location was soon be traced, Hunt pointedly told Kittridge: "If you're dealing with someone who's crushed, stabbed, shot and detonated five members of his own IMF team, how devastated do you think you're gonna make him by marching Ma and Uncle Donald down to the county courthouse?" And then as Ethan turned, he was startled when Phelps appeared next to him.It was "twenty years after the first murders" when Michael finally found his sister at the school where she worked, and attempted to murder her.Doc describes how he kept his sanity behind the prison walls for so many years by behaving himself (while planning and dreaming of escape to idyllic Mexico):Doc: It's a matter of temperament.[Note: This obscure reference is to the "LOVE" and "HATE" tattoos on the fingers on the left and right hand of the Preacher (Robert Mitchum) inThe Night of the Hunter (1955)." Alex knew he had only seven days (counted down to five), after he first put on the bracelet, before the Scorpion King woke up.