Glitch!
In the escape sequence, you can stop the timer at 0 and live! Time your trransfer to the next screen so the timer is at 0:02, while you transfer to the next screen, the timer will hit 0 and your health will drop to nothing as well, however, the game remembers your health from the previous screen, and changes it back. From then on, you can continue at your leisure.
Please don't fix it, It's the only way I can beat the escape sequence, as my Macintosh dosen't like this game, even on low quality with nothing else running in the background.