The O'Connells, not knowing that son Alex had quit college, felt estranged from him, remarking: "We can't let Alex become some stranger in pictures on our mantle.He first rescued trapper workers on a roof, and then was told by one of the White-Coated lab Scientists (Pat Starr) that vials of Beltric acid, if heated up to over 180 degrees, would create a major crisis: the production of clouds of corrosive vapor could cover the entire Eastern seaboard - "If it begins to heat up, it'll turn volatile.We must bring the message to the people.We must teach them to unmask their poor suffocating bodies and let them breathe again.Clothes are the enemy.Without clothes, there'd be no sickness, there'd be no war.I ask you, sir, can you imagine two great armies on the battlefield, no uniforms, completely nude? No way of telling friend from foe.The Hobbit group and Strider proceeded to the elf enclave of Rivendell after Frodo was stab-wounded by a Ringwraith's sword (a Morgul blade).