"E? What is this Wheel of Fortune or something," he asked. Richard wasn't a fan of guessing games, and this one wasn't even fun.

Then the speaker asked him if he gave up, and under normal circumstances he would have gone with 'no'. These were hardly normal by any standards.

Grabbing his book, he looked at the television. "Yeah, I give up," he said before turning into vapor and drifting out of the room.