The night passes and the Sergeant begins to understand that this is not a normal road and these are not ordinary wounded soldiers. He tells Lavinia that in the early morning hours of dawn he realized there is something at the end of the road he has to find. As the Sergeant turns to leave, Lavinia moves in front of him and tries to persuade him to stay. In the background they hear a man's voice singing the same folk song the Sergeant had played earlier on his guitar − Lavinia's husband, Jud.