How It All Goes Down
- It's time for Sheriff Bell's Old Guy Whine Time. Same Old Guy Time, Same Old Guy Station.
- A summary: I keep gettin older but criminals stay the same age. They aint got no respect. Drug wars are getting more violent. No one respects me. Narcotics are the worst.
- Llewelyn buys the redheaded hitchhiker dinner and chats her up.
- Llewelyn's as forthcoming with her as he was with his wife, telling her nothing about himself.
- Llewelyn and the hitchhiker check into a hotel and sit outside while Llewelyn gives life advice. Then they ponder the existence of good luck and bad luck.
- Llewelyn goes to his own room to sleep.
- Whoops. Looks like he has bad luck. He's dead now.
- No, seriously. Llewelyn, one of our main characters, just died during the section break.
- The drug runners' Barracuda pulls into a car wash, and the driver washes off all the blood, while Bell shows up at the hotel in Van Horn to investigate the crime scene.
- Llewelyn and the hitchhiker girl are dead.
- Bell isn't looking forward to telling Llewelyn's wife that he's dead.
- Bell sets off on the 120-mile journey to El Paso.
- That night, Chigurh breaks into the crime scene and finds the moneybag hidden in the air duct.
- He retrieves it and returns to his truck. Just as he does, Bell arrives to scope out the crime scene again. Chigurh waits silently in the darkness.
- Bell sees the dismantled air grate and realizes that someone has been there. That someone could still be there.
- Bell returns to his cruiser and radios for backup, then drives a bit down the road to scope out the parking lot. He doesn't see any vehicles leave.
- When his backup arrives, Bell searches all the vehicles in the parking lot, but he doesn't find anyone. Where did Chigurh go?
- Bell travels to Carla Jean's house to deliver the bad news. She starts to cry.
- The Sheriff apologizes again and again, and Carla Jean snaps. "Damn you. […] My husband is dead. Do you understand that? You say you're sorry one more time and by God if wont get my gun and shoot you" (8.2.447).