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
Wampum eight white or four black wampum equalling one "stuiver", meaning that the white had the same value as the copper duit coin. The colonial government in New Jersey issued a proclamation setting the rate at six white or three black to one penny; this proclamation also applied in Delaware. The black shells were rarer than the white shells and so were worth more, which led people to dye the white and dilute the value of black shells. Robert Beverley, Jr. of Virginia Colony wrote about tribes in Virginia in 1705. He describes "peak" as referring to the white shell bead,