Teacher is not Rock star sorry no matter what he's the grizzled weird old guy who dies helping the rock star get thru the tunnel onto the secret train off the planet into history he's a gross but nevertheless loveable nobody who tries and tries and tries and tries his whole life and fails and fails— his only consolation that without him, they would have had to have found someone else to do the dirty work for 32000 dollars and a box of oranges that should be enough to hold him over till this planet's done burning then it's on to the next subject if, that is, there's any work left to be done at that point