She is flooded from above by a beam of light.Three indistinguishable ""Fates"" sit huddled together o the left in the background.The Whitman poem is paraphrased: "Today as yesterday, endlessly rocking, ever bringing the same human passions, the same joys and sorrows.[Her sleepy, descriptive narration, sometimes uncomprehending of what is happening to her, is probably delivered as a retrospective, nostalgic reflection some months or years later, or as a running commentary, or as mundane quotes from her daily journal.Rod awakened from the screams and the struggle going on under the bed-covers, as she grappled with her phantom attacker.He bursts into a rage at the scamp: "Beat it.I ain""t buying no lottery tickets." He projects his own annoyance and resentment of beggars at the boy (although he is one himself):Get away from me, ya little beggar!To get rid of the kid, he becomes a bully and flings a glass of water in the boy""s face.When Takagi refused, Gruber shot him point-blank in the head.The terrorists were forced to try to hack into the vault "the hard way." Theo told Gruber that it would take a half-hour o break the code, and two and a half hours to disable six other mechanical locks on the vault, leaving the seventh and final lock ("the electromagnetic seal") with circuits that could not be cut locally.