Ed tells Ginny and Timmy to flee in a car near the edge of the motel, but it explodes, leaving no trace of the two behind. The last four survivors discover that the bodies of all the previous victims have disappeared. Paris, yelling in hysterics at their unknown assailant, says that her birthday is the next week; it transpires that all eleven people were born on May 10 — which is also Malcolm's birthday, and the day he committed the murders.