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**SPOILERS:** The Mysterious Cube
posted by Zürich GnomeSTAFFMOD on May 7, 2017 at 4:19 PM
SPOILERS: I just watched "The Mysterious Cube" and it remains one of my favorites. But I always thought a few things were sort of dubious: getting the Naval Observatory to change their radio time signal, which could really mess up a lot of important things that depend on it; and the crook's using acid to melt the otherwise impervious wall. If acid worked from the inside, it should have been able to work from the outside as well, but the cops never bothered to try it. And near the end, when the crook says, "At least I have one satisfaction. Superman may have beaten me, but he couldn't save Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen." He's basically admitting to attempted murder, thus piling another charge on him. And he's supposed to be a brilliant criminal mastermind!
Reply by PT 100
on May 7, 2017 at 7:48 PM
SPOILERS: Hi Gnome. You may recall from IMDb that I pointed out the dialog error in which the crook emerges and is told he emerged too soon. He replies that his clock couldn't have been that slow. But the problem is that his clock was actually too fast, as the police point out to him in a follow-up line of dialog.
I've since done some more research to see if this error was in the script, or was just misspoken during filming. Here's a blurb from the Superman Homepage site: "After Paul Barton is told by Inspector Henderson that he came out too soon, actor Bruce Wendell says, 'That's impossible. My clock couldn't be running that slow.' He is correct because it was fast. His dialog was an error that was left in the script."
Reply by Zürich Gnome
on July 31, 2018 at 9:46 PM
There's another problem w/this episode. If someone who is declared legally dead eventually reappears, they are then considered legally alive, and would still be responsible for any past crimes, unless the statue of limitations had expired. (There is no statute of limitations for murder.) For example, this blurb from Wikipedia:
"Although people presumed dead sometimes turn up alive, it is not as common as it used to be. In one case where this occurred, a man named John Burney disappeared in 1976 while having financial problems, and later reappeared in December 1982. His company and wife had already received the death benefits—so, on returning, the life insurance company sued him, his wife, and his company. In the end, the court ruled Burney's actions fraudulent."