As Charming ordered Shrek to be killed, Artie jumped down onto the stage, ordering: "Everybody, stop!" He asked: "Who really thinks we need to settle things this way?" He persuasively convinced the villains to wish to be something else with their lives: "Just because people treat you like a villain, or an ogre, or just some loser, it doesn""t mean you are one.Those stockpiles left behind by FEMA, the National Guard, we have it all.Look, I know why you""re scared.I""m scared, too, believe me.But I recognize the trust you""ve all placed in me.We""ve been through hell together.But you all know what we""re up against.We""re almost out of fuel.Which means no more power, which means we could slip back to the way things were.That dam up there was the answer.Now we just had no idea hey were up there, too....We find another way, because that power is not just about keeping the lights on.It""s about giving us the tools to reconnect to the rest of the world.To find out who else is out there, so that we can start to rebuild and reclaim he world we lost.After Dreyfus finished, Malcolm emphasized to him heir dire circumstances - they would possibly have to fight the apes to acquire a long-term power source: "There is no alternative power source.Maybe I""d better see Mr.Geiger?And when a respectable looking businessman, a client, is buzzed into the back room, this confirms Marlowe""s feelings about Geiger""s disreputable business (a front for a blackmail racket or for a high-class lending library of pornographic, dirty books for subscribers only)." Nick asserted that he wanted o hear nothing more from her about the case:Nora: Is that my drink over there?Nick: What are you drinking?Nora: Rye.