Mr. Luthor would surely let him out through the emergency stairwell.
KIRK: Are you certain this is the emergency stairwell, Mr. St. John? The sign says ‘Trash Compactor’.
If he asked to be let out, Mr. Luthor would have to let him go.
Isn’t he adorable? Almost as naive as Lois.
Kirk Devlin, Physicist’s Report, New Earth, Day 1, Old Star Date 02281994:

*Fresh* food! *Healthy* food!
MORLOCK 3: /swings bat at M1 and M2/ *My* food!
This is everything I’ve wanted without spending twenty years clawing my way to the top through corporate hierarchy or academia.
Translation: He hopes to score with the scantly glad but very attractive cave girls who survived topside.
I guess that’s pretty stereotypical of his profession as “agrarian agricultural engineer”. I asked him what that was, when he used the term on Day One to describe his job within the ark community. He had grinned and said, “You commonly call us ‘farmers’.”
