As they prepare the injection, Veta tries to pay the cab driver but is unable to find her coin purse, prompting Elwood to help pay him. Warmed by Elwood's kindness, the cab driver explains how he has driven many people to the sanatorium to receive the same medicine, warning Veta that Elwood will soon become "just a normal human being, and you know what stinkers they are." Veta is upset by this and halts the injection; she then finds her coin purse, realizing Harvey had intervened to save her brother.