Summary

It is late Saturday. The Farewell Banquet winds down. Amy Robinson and Jan Huebler console each other with deep draws from Amy’s flask. Paulette Haslo and Billy McMann quietly play a game of tease and seduction, old friends seeking consolation, a way to handle otherwise bitter disappointment, Billy, the loss of Dorothy years ago, Paulette, the loss of her God. The two move furtively into the empty kitchen and have clumsy, if aggressive sex. Heavily drunk, Marv struggles to approach Spook for what he assumes will be his last chance with her. He fails, but they leave together for the airport.

Working up the courage to share the truth about Harmon Osterberg, Ellie Abbott talks in hushed whispers with her husband before walking with him to the darkened parking lot. There under the blurry yellow of the streetlights she finally tells him...