He reminded her why he was not coming out of retirement:I haven""t time.I""m much too busy seeing that you don""t lose any of the money I married you for.She tried to entice him with the intriguing murder case, now that the inventor had been accused of a crime: "Girl mysteriously murdered, nobody knows who did it, they haven""t found any clues, no gun, no fingerprints." When Fran walks by, at first he doesn""t recognize her in "civilian clothes," but then he takes the opportunity to invite the elusive elevator operator to join him at the theater.Without fuel they were nothing.They""d built a house of straw.The thundering machines sputtered and stopped.Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche.Their world crumbled, the cities exploded.A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear.Men began to feed on men.On the roads, it was a white-line nightmare.Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage, would survive.The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.Men like Max, the warrior Max.In he roar of an engine, he lost everything, and became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past.]McCloudadmitted that he knew alot about the Keys due to his many conversations with George about his "favorite subject.