No Country for Old Men Scene 40 Summary

  • Instead of going straight home, Sheriff Bell returns to Llewellyn Moss's motel room. Maybe he was inspired by the story about Chigurh returning to the site of his previous crime, and sure enough, he finds that the lock on Moss's motel room has been punched out (Chigurh's calling card).
  • Inside the room, we can see Chigurh hiding among the shadows with his shotgun ready for whoever comes in.
  • Bell swallows hard and draws his gun. He pushes the door to the room open and walks in. He searches the room and finds no one, realizing that the bathroom window is locked from the inside. So Chigurh must have just been in his imagination? Weird.
  • Bell sits on the motel bed to think for a moment, then glances toward the room's air duct and sees that the grate has been pulled off the wall. It looks like Moss was going to try the same old trick for stashing his money.