One night, she finds a drunk man named Lloyd sleeping in a shed on her property, but allows him to stay when he denies any knowledge of the killings, eventually inviting him into her guest room.

After a visit from the doctor, she tells Lloyd that she wants to move the entire flock into the house until she can find what is killing them, but he says he won't let her, implying that the monster is imaginary and she is losing her mind.

Denver threatens to beat Jake if she tells anyone, then leaves her on a path near Flora's house, where she lights a joint and smokes it in the grass.

Much of the town burns down as well, and the townspeople believe Denver to have started the fire to cover his tracks after raping and murdering Flora.

On her way home, a group of locals run her down and hold her to the ground while Flora's father savagely beats her with a stick, leaving permanent scars.

After being run out of town, she resorts to prostitution to survive, and eventually agrees to go live with one of her regulars, Otto, thinking it will be safer to service only one client.

Otto grows increasingly abusive, locking her in her room at night, refusing to teach her how to drive, and mangling her bicycle so she can't escape.

Having recently inherited fifty-thousand dollars after her father's death in a boating accident, she travels to Scotland and buys a farm.