- So now what? Hip goes to the anteroom and finds Janie there. He tells her Gerry became ashamed.
- Hip suggests he should leave and move on with his life. Janie asks him to stay.
- He says he can't stay, because he doesn't want to be around someone (the gestalt) whom he can't be part of. Janie says the Gestalt is missing a piece. Hip realizes he could join the gestalt but doesn't know what his power would be.
- Janie reveals that he'd be the conscience, the one to turn the ethic into a consistent morality. Aw!
- Hip agrees. He sits down next to Janie, and they wait for Gerry.