Gun Machine CEO kills himself with his wife. Tallow speaks with The Hunter, in prison and taking anti-psychotics for his schizophrenia, and confirms his suspicion that the room of guns was a Native American wampum, a kind of symbolic language made with beads. The purpose of the wampum in the killer's deranged mind, once completed, would be to supernaturally eject the White-European settler Americans from New York with all of its modern culture and return New York to its pre-industrial state. Ellis has confirmed that rights for "Gun Machine" have been purchased by the 20th Century Fox TV and Chernin Entertainment, with
Molluscs in culture North America, Africa and the Caribbean have used shells as money, including "Monetaria moneta", the money cowrie in preindustrial societies. However, these were not necessarily used for commercial transactions, but mainly as social status displays at important occasions, such as weddings. When used for commercial transactions, they functioned as commodity money, as a tradable commodity whose value differed from place to place, often as a result of difficulties in transport, and which was vulnerable to incurable inflation if more efficient transport or "goldrush" behaviour appeared. Among the Eastern Woodlands tribes of North America, shell beads known as wampum were kept