the visit
- A few days have passed, and nothing has happened. Ed begins to wonder if anything will happen.
- He passes the time by thinking back to what happened with the man from Edgar Street…
- One night Ed returns home after playing cards to find two balaclava-clad men in his house eating pies, and before he can decide what to do, the men knock him down and drag him through the kitchen.
- By the way, your dog has fleas and needs a bath, one of them tells Ed. They gave him a pie though. When Ed asks if it was cooked, they're offended, and say they're not savages. (Gee, he was thrown off by the fact that they broke in to his house.)
- These two clowns call each other by name (Daryl and Keith) and tell Ed he's been ungrateful. Ed figures out they're connected to the messages, and asks who they work for.
- Daryl and Keith don't answer, but they do tell him this is all for the greater good. What is this, some sort of terrible trust exercise?
- The guys joke around, complain about their balaclavas itching, and are all around not your average hit men.
- Daryl and Keith take the gun from Ed, then they deliver a message of their own: he's doing a great job so far. And they let it slip that they already know he didn't kill the Edgar Street guy. Whoops.
- The last thing they do before leaving is give Ed another envelope.