

Elvis Impersonator: Eckert works as an Elvis impersonator on the outside, which he demonstrates during his initial interview.By the end the Guards are beating the Prisoners into comas, keep the junior scientists who are supposed to be monitoring the experiment captive so they can't interfere, and one of them even tries to rape a woman from the staff. At first the Guards limit themselves to minor abuses such as forcing #82, who's lactose intolerant, to drink his required dosage of milk, but when the prisoners start to riot (largely because of prodding from Prisoner #77, who's a plant from a newspaper looking for a good story) they start resorting to increasingly violent methods to keep control over them.

Drunk with Power: Deconstructed, in that it's shown that both the Guards and the Prisoners ultimately contribute to the escalation.We get to see the poor guy die slowly as his suffocated breaths get weaker and weaker.

