In this short scene, Leroux tells the audience that he is a friend of Peter's father, who was killed by the French in the Algerian war. Leroux admires Peter for attempting to claim the mantle of leadership in the war, but he knows that the only way to save humanity is for all of humanity to die. He tells Peter that his father was his "best and only friend" and that he killed him to make sure that "mankind" would inherit the earth