Returning to the Santa Rio saloon, Wales finds Fletcher accompanied by two Texas Rangers. The locals at the saloon, who refer to Wales as "Mr. Wilson", tell the Rangers that Wales was killed in a shoot-out in Monterrey. The Rangers accept this story and move on, but Fletcher sees through the lie, and pretends to not recognize Wales. He says that he will go to Mexico to look for Wales himself and try to tell him that the war is over. Wales says, "I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damned war", before riding off.