Bucky confronts Madeleine and Emmett, who he finds incestuously entwined on a bed. Bucky lays out the sequence of events: Madeline is the daughter of Georgie, who had a morbid fascination with dead things since his return from the war; Lee deduced he killed Short, but used the information to blackmail Emmett for $100,000, which led to his trip to Tijuana and his subsequent murder by Madeleine. Bucky kills Georgie for some measure of justice, but knows that turning in the rest of the family would blow back on him for suppressing evidence. He gradually realizes that every member of the Sprague family were accomplices in some way, as well as Kay, who picked up the $100,000 for Lee.