Malcolm was grateful that the apes spared their lives ("He could""ve killed us, but he didn""t").Carver was more paranoid: "Maybe he kept us alive, so they could follow us.They find out where we are, and they kill us all!" Malcolm described the lead ape: "He was remarkable." Before hey were allowed in, the nightmare that Rod was experiencing became real, as his bedsheet snaked toward his throat and made a noose around his neck.Mrs.Upjohn: Vassar? But that""s a girls"" college.Hackenbush: I found that out the third year.I""d""ve been there yet, but I went out for the swimming team.Hackenbush also admits that his medical experiences were "unexciting except during the flu epidemic":Whitmore: Ah, and what happened?Hackenbush: I got the flu.And I find the moment that I make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so." The snobbish professor contemptuously sings-talks that he is a "quiet living man" without the need for a woman in "An Ordinary Man":I""m an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance,to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants.