Back home, Andy's father, Charles, and sister, Cathy, begin to grieve, but his mother, Christine, becomes irate and refuses to believe that Andy has died. Meanwhile, a trucker stops at a diner and says he's picked up a hitchhiker who's a soldier. Hours later, in the middle of the night, Andy arrives at the front door of the family house in full uniform and apparently unharmed; the family accepts the notice of his death as a clerical error and welcomes him back with joy. When the father says we thought you died Andy replies "I did".