He appears dead, but Dougal passes him off as merely "very drunk", saying "I haven't seen him this bad since he disappeared with Sister Imelda" ("the Blue Nun").
The next scene commences with Dougal sitting by Jack's coffin singing "Karma Chameleon", and Ted nursing wounds after Miss Sweeney flew into a rage and punched him and swore at him after they did not believe her claims that she was the solicitor.
Ted and Dougal then muse about how Jack managed to save up so much money during his life, by never giving to charity and not wearing trousers during summer, among other things.
Ted remarks that a friend of his, Father Jimmy Ranable, studied under Jack in his youth and praised his teaching methods.
Flashbacks are shown of Jack as an especially vicious teacher at a Catholic school, beating male students with a hurley stick, and telling them they would all burn for eternity in Hell.
The pair, clearly very disappointed at losing out on the inheritance, then head to the shops to buy some more floor polish, suggesting that they might start leaving it round the house, or even in Jack's room, "in case we run out".
[1] In the finished episode, the scene where Ted finds Jack seemingly dead is largely intact from the mockumentary draft.
Linehan noted that one of the great things about writing a "silly sitcom" is that the writers can invent rules: Jack can die and come back to life "because his body works differently from other people".
The executives were bemused by an incomplete story where one of the main characters was dead, but commissioned the series soon after receiving the full script.
[1] Kevin Sharkey, who plays the black Donegal priest, was a friend of the writers, and was brought in specifically for a one-line joke.
[1] The writers had the idea for the elderly 'monkey' priest in a TV studio, when they were going to see Ben Elton's sketch show, which Mathews called "one of the worst comedy nights of my life".
[1] Ted's speech about death was quoted from the ending of The Dead, John Huston's film adaptation of James Joyce's short story.