On October 29, 1990, the Express showed up to the next round of TV tapings only to discover they were not on the card for any of the shows. Since they were not told ahead of time, Eaton was unable to take the day off to spend time with his wife and children. Cornette, already frustrated over what he perceived as the burial of Lane and Eaton by WCW President Jim Herd, discovered the next day that the Express was booked for four matches at the October 30 taping session and they were to lose all of them. After confronting Ole Anderson, the booker at the time, over the scheduling, Cornette was told to "go home" if he disagreed. Calling Anderson's bluff, Cornette walked out of the room and told Lane he was leaving for good. Lane decided that he was going to quit as well, and after they bade goodbye to Eaton (who decided to stay due to his family obligations), both men left and began heading north toward North Carolina; it was not until Anderson came looking for Cornette and Lane later that he realized they had quit. So, for the first time in almost a decade, there was no Midnight Express.