The door to the water room is locked, and the fire crackling in the room is too strong for the men to get in. The door latch has been broken in the wrong direction, and Lysander has slipped it into the door, causing the door to be closed. The men are worried that they will be blown away by the palace, but they can't leave. The concourse is only a few hundred yards away, and it will take them a minute to get to the gate. They have to know the passcode, but the previous one was wrong, so they have to guess the number of diamonds on the poker card. They don't know what to do, and they're about to die.