Aubrey explains that the farm is failing, insurance won't pay out for flood damage and that he is selling half the herd.

One of the pregnant cows gives birth to a male calf and Aubrey tells the vegetarian Clover to cull it immediately, before the heifer gets attached to it.

Clover cleans the house and the mobile home, where she and father currently reside, and finds cans of petrol in the kitchen.

Later on at night, Clover invites James over to talk and leads him into the kitchen while carrying a flaming torch but he stops her saying it's too dangerous with the petrol.

Just as she is about to leave for the funeral Clover notices that the key to the gun cupboard is missing and fears that Aubrey is going to kill himself.

She hears a gun shot across the farm and dashes out onto the muddy fields where she finds a distraught Aubrey methodically shooting his own herd.