"The money's not necessary--food's included in our 'vacation package'. As for help--we've been trying to figure out how we got here, how to get home. If you have any theories or ways of gathering information, that'll be help to us. I'm usually not much useful in those talks."

Except occasionally when he is. But he's not driven as Clarke or daring like Jinx or gifted with supernatural senses like Palamedes.