At least this time John didn't have to do any extra travelling to be held hostage. Of course he's resigned. His life is like "Buy some milk, buy some milk, be taken hostage, buy some milk"...or was that "Be taken hostage, be taken hostage, almost buy some milk, be taken hostage"?

I have every sympathy with the welder. First he is driven mad by public transportation difficulties, and then, just when he thinks he is going to be heard, he manages to confine himself with the Holmes brothers. At that point the arrow might have almost been a relief.