Lou Dimes
- We're back with our good buddy Lou again, and he's as confused as ever about what's going on.
- He notices that some of the old men seem to be taking turns going to the back of the house and coming back. Nobody else seems to, though.
- He tries to talk some sense into Candy and encourage her to go home.
- It doesn't work.
- Lou gets the feeling that everybody there is waiting for something, but he's not exactly sure what.
- At a loss for what do to with himself, he goes out back to use the outhouse.
- He meets one of the elderly men coming back. They nod.
- Lou says it looks like the outhouse hasn't even been used. Lou just spits in the makeshift toilet and walks out.
- When he gets back, Candy asks if he saw any spiders.
- Lou say he only saw a few webs. He tries to get her to go home again.
- Guess what? It still doesn't work. Things are getting tense.
- There's a little more light conversation between Candy and Mathu, with Candy just making sure that Mathu is alright.
- Suddenly, dust clouds appear, which means somebody is on their way.
- Everybody still seems tense, but nobody moves. Lou notices that Mapes has his thumb near the safety catch on his gun.
- Griffin, hiding behind a patch of weeds, gives Mapes a nod to let him know everything is okay when the car passes him.
- Mapes's thumb gets closer to the safety catch, and Lou is convinced Mapes is going to fire Griffin ASAP when all of this is over.
- The car pulls up. It's Miss Merle. And she brought ham and cheese sandwiches.
- Carrying a basket full of them herself, she asks Griffin to help with the other basket, and she starts handing them out to everybody there.
- It's pretty obvious that she's nervous and agitated.
- Once that basket is empty, she hands it to Griffin as she keeps handing out sandwiches from the second basket.
- Griffin is left standing there, holding his revolver and an empty basket.
- This ticks Miss Merle off. She makes Griffin put his gun away.
- She gives Mapes a second sandwich and apologizes for there being no beer.
- Mapes says he'd be fine with water and asks Mathu if he minds.
- Mathu has Snookum get some ice water out of his refrigerator and bring two glasses.
- In the meantime, Mapes is just watching the sun go down. He figures it's be dusk in about an hour.
- Snookum asks Miss Merle for another sandwich. She's surprised, but she gives him one.
- Mapes says Lou probably wouldn't mind a second one, either.
- Lou gets one, and pretty soon all of the hungrier old African American men who've gathered there get another, too.
- Miss Merle is still agitated. After getting nowhere probing Candy for answers, she asks Mapes just what he intends to do about all this.
- He gives her the same answer that he's given other people who've asked.
- She tries to get on Lou for not convincing Candy to stop this foolishness, but Lou says it's a no go, and Merle says he needs to learn how to control his woman (yuck).
- She eventually leaves, after saying that nobody better come to the house all bloody and expecting to get patched up.
- Mapes thanks her for the sandwiches one last time as she's leaving.
- They do a little more talking, and Mapes goes back to standing after Merle leaves.
- Lou asks Mapes what he thinks is going to happen.
- Mapes says he has no idea.
- Lou is surprised that Mapes seems so content to wait.
- All Mapes says when Lou tells him as much is that it's gotten too late for him to go fishing like he wanted to.