Jim is separated from his parents and taken into Ray""s inside office o be given a hearing."Somebody ought to put poison in her Epsom salts," Jim suggests.With bottled-up frustration, Jim first lightly touches, kicks, and then boxes bare-knuckled with a large wooden desk, venting his pent-up crazed energy.They are ex-lovers and his personal life has been affected by their separation: "My sex life is actually pretty s--tty after I stopped seeing you.White gems of pure starlight.I offer you my help...I will let you go if you but return what is mine." Thorin resolutely refused the offer, referring to the Elven King""s previous refusal to help the Dwarves fight against the siege of dragon Smaug in the Lonely Mountain: "We came to you once, starving, homeless, seeking your help.With Hicks in command, he ordered the group to evacuate and "nuke the site from orbit," although Burke objected - revealing his ties to the company to save alien speciments and use them as biological weapons; the dropship (with an alien onboard) crashed trying to pick them up, and Bishop announced that the nuclear-powered facility would blow up in four hours - time enough to remotely program theSulaco""s second drop ship to rescue them; Newt and Ripley were sabotaged by Burke when locked in the med-lab and two face-huggers threatened them.The next screen read: "In Memory Of DONALD PLEASENCE" before the closing credits.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This sequel, the sixth film in the series, had a troubled past, with almost a dozen script rewrites, reshoots and editing.