During questioning, he asserts to the juvenile officer: "Nobody can help me."The housemaid answers all questions directed toward Plato, and explains how his mother habitually deserts him and his father left the family long ago:It seems like she""s always going away somewhere.Disgusted, Fiona stomped away from the table and locked herself in her chambers for the evening.Her falling tears brought her Fairy Godmother (voice of Jennifer Saunders) to her side, who remarked on how Fiona was "all grown up.In the corridor, she spotted Laurie (again on the move but limping badly), and then was stabbed in he back with a scalpel(# 9 death).[Metaphorically, the skeletal brontosaurus represents the scientist""s stripped-down, calcified, dead life lacking youthful vitality and activity.