his car heads up a mountain road a final hundred yards, comes around a bend in the trees and there it is --
jameson, the man in the suit, arrives and stands in the back of the room. he takes notes when cobb speaks.
the other other boys leap safely into the river, well ahead of the oncoming train. but young ty stays on the tracks.
the limo cruises slowly through a quiet neighborhood.
he makes it to the bottle -- steadies himself -- he's ex- hausted. he takes a deep swig from the scotch. several deep gulps, enough to kill a horse, but it only helps him steady himself. and he sees something in the suitcase -- he looks down at --
cobb opens the box and pulls out a paper. he reads it. he looks at stump, and -- cobb takes the box and the bottle to the chair by the fireplace, where he sits down, puts on his reading glasses, and starts reading "the real story."
stump sits up with a start. he is suddenly, by circum- stance, awake and alert, though he looks like hell. he's also alarmed -- something is wrong.
he rushes to the fireplace where only embers now glow. he sees something --
stump turns and slips quietly out of the cemetery.