Kathie: Just trying to make conversation.It means nothing to me.Johnny: Well,on the weekends, we go out and have a ball.Kathie:And what do you do? I mean, do you just ride around? Or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something?Johnny:A picnic? Man, you aretoosquare.That dam is the only option." Dreyfus insisted: "We need that power to get the radio transmitter working.It""s our only chance of reaching the outside world.We have to find other survivors...We can""t afford any more casualties.We founded this place, you and I, on the idea that power would lead us back to he life we once had.If we can""t stick together, maybe we can""t survive." Malcolm begged for and was allowed three days time to ake a small team into the forest, and try to work out a reconciliatory, peaceful agreement with the lead intelligent ape so that the humans could access the hydroelectric dam in the apes"" territory:Malcolm: Give me three days.The four widely separate, yet paralleled stories are set in different ages - and in the original print, each story was inted with a different color.When Bard returned to Thranduil with news of Thorin""s rejection, the two leaders formed an alliance and prepared to attack at dawn.