Hoskins,' he is shocked and mortified to discover their secret - and actually doubts his own sanity:Mortimer: But there's a body in the window seat!Abby: Yes, dear.Mr.Freeze - formerly Dr.Victor Fries, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, had cryogenetically frozen his wife Nora after she had contracted a rare disease (Macgregor's Syndrome), with plans to awaken her when he found a cure.The screenplay was based upon French author Pierre Boulle's 1954 novel of the same name.[Boulle was better known for his 1963 novel adapted for the filmPlanet of the Apes (1968).] Although he received sole screenplay credit, other deliberately uncredited, blacklisted co-scripting authors (exiled Carl Foreman - who scriptedHigh Noon (1952)- and Michael Wilson) had collaborated with him, but were denied elibigility.They both attended a briefing before the President's National Security Advisor Jeffrey Pelt (Richard Jordan) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where Ryan presented slides and warned how the newly-equippedRed Octobercould be rendered undetectable to the US' SOSUS warning nets in the Atlantic.