If they complied within two hours, he promised hat the hostages would be taken to the building""s roof to accompany hem in helicopters to the Los Angeles International Airport.Although Peter was a member of the school""s Academic Decathlon Team (that was planning to attend the national competition in mid-October in Washington, DC), he quit being a member with he excuse that he had to be available for Starks"" Internship program if called upon.The alien hen stood up and with a bit of exasperation described to a group of soldiers (now unarmed) how the broken and smashed object was a tubular viewing device or telescope - a gift for the US President: "It was a gift for your President.Without money, you might as well be dead."Vince: "Yeah."Hunk: "That""s all the sympathy you""ll get from me.Pity""s a commodity.In here, you buy it and sell it just like anything else."Vince: "Hey, what are you, man? Some kind of an animal?"Hunk: "That""s right, buddy.I""m an animal in a jungle, and I got a motto: ""Do unto others as they would do unto you, only do it first"".