after a few additional minutes , everglade answered questions from the punch-in bunch crowd , while the elevator repairman spoke to brayfield about various unexplored connections between the logic motherboard of evans and elevator b , connections with the car , the portion of the elevator where people rode , and with its dome , or ceiling , its drive system , the mechanism that lifted and lowered the elevator and its passengers , with its rail , a metal track guiding the elevator in a vertical path , and with the hoistway , the opening created through which the elevator passed .