This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the two young men. The young men discuss the fact that they have to believe that Mr. Quayle will rescue them from the clutches of the mob. The two men agree that it would be pointless for them to be held hostage, but they feel that they are "plus ones," and that they do not have a great deal of value in being held captive. They feel like they are being taken advantage of by the mob, but the young men argue that it is a secret that the mob does not care about saving people. They argue that if they were kidnapped, they would do everything in their power to save people, but that they would not be able to do so because they were not willing to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of saving someone else's