And if Travis wishes to purchase a weapon, he has a source.Off-handedly, Wizard mentions that he has a gun but never uses it: "I never use mine.I'm conservative, you know.It's a good thing to have just as a threat." An anxiety-ridden Travis dumps an Alka-Seltzer ablet in a glass of water - the camera zooms in and lingers on the exploding, fizzing action [a symbolic, precipitous descent into the effervescent disturbances in Travis' inner world]." Both Ellie and Alexander urged and convinced him to let them join him.Malcolm drove the lead truck with three passengers (Carver, Ellie, and Alexander) to a blocked-off unnel....All these annoyances piling up..."Bea learned that the previous night, Scotty had been made a "principal' performer-singer in the 'Cat' unit's 'prologue' show, and was not just a chorus member.In total fear, panic, and shock in the shuttle cockpit, Kinsa refused to open the shuttle doors, and also attempted to launch the shuttle without first releasing the docking clamps to the fuel lines.