As floors went higher, more passengers had to be served and the elevator cables were longer.

"That will clear away some of the elevator cable," Simon said weakly.

We have a project there that will be your cover story, salvaging a section of the fallen elevator cable.

Here a boom was swung out to support the elevator cables.

Dortmunder looked all around, and saw the elevator cables in motion.

The elevator cables disappeared and the bottom of the car came into view in the small window.

That broken elevator cable will worry them for a while.

He felt as if the elevator cable had snapped.

"We're moving to secure the elevator cables, but they're doing the same thing," he continued.

And I said it before, the elevator cables are of little strategic interest.