paul and dean enter to find brutal trying not to wake the cons in their cells by laughing too loudly. they follows his gaze down the mile, see nothing, turn to him like he's crazy.
a slow tracking shot of the green floor takes us past a tiny scrap of break. and then another. and then past a mousetrap primed with a scrap of bacon.
paul returns to find wild bill making up a song in his cell:
harry and dean are playing cards at the duty desk, tension thick, cards slapping softly as the seconds tick by. paul and brutal finally show up toting bottles of rc cola:
and they bring him down the mile to the restraint room door. brutal takes percy's holster and baton.
dean starts babbling with relief as they return:
coffey sits quietly in his cell, a solitary firefly flitting in circles around his finger. paul and the men appear. the firefly flits away, vanishing through coffey's tiny window.
four pairs of feet come marching up the green mile.