TheDaily Planet""s editor-in-chief, her boss Perry White (Laurence Fishburne), refused to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter""s account, calling it a possibly-hallucinated memory of "aliens walking among us." Venkman agreed: "No human being would stack books like this." The trio also found that some of the card catalogue drawers had been "slimed" with white ectoplasmic residue, and collected a gooey sample.The passage of time was conveyed by Tatum""s copy-cat mode of dress - he was wearing a dark black shirt, pleated khaki slacks, and a belt AND suspenders - imitating Mr.Pvt.Steel then shoved Sarah and McDermott into the wooden caged pen near the caves infested by zombies.As John bargained for Rhodes to release his friends ("Let ""em out.That""s the deal"), the tyrannical leader opened up the cage, leaving them vulnerable to zombie-attack.