He freezes, listening to the pitiful shrieks of the cultists trapped in the center of the boiling water. Any self-respecting hero would say, "Stop! We have to help them!" But Alex, being just a magician who can perform all sorts of illusions, as well as a truly creepy form of ventriloquism on the doll he has tucked away in a pocket, but nothing in the way of actual superheroism, only thinks to himself hoist by their own petard, and legs it for the exit.