So the Moral is: Crazies don't get Better?? (Spoiler)
He was a claustrophobic Nut (although being stuck in a hot elevator IS scary-I have personal experience with THAT)
and maybe Gay, rejecting a Nubile Shirley Maclaine and all-lol.
So he chickened out at the Last Minute and SHE-as Usual-Lied to her peeps.