Jim Nashe worked as a fireman, but a large inheritance and a divorce from his wife has left him free to buy a new car and see the country at his leisure.

Pozzi tells how he just lost his net worth when the poker game he was playing at was robbed and he was beaten after the others suspected him of orchestrating the robbery.

Now he cannot afford the minimum $10,000 buy-in to play a poker game with a pair of eccentric old millionaires whom he had previously beaten handily.

After learning that the cost of their food is being added to their debt and that Flower and Stone have gone on an overseas trip, Pozzi decides he needs to escape.

Pozzi attempts his escape by burrowing under the fence and disappearing, offering to call Nashe's family when he gets away.

However, the next morning, Nashe wakes to find a badly beaten and unconscious Pozzi outside the front door of his shack.

The injured Nashe is next seen strolling up the road whereupon a driver (author Paul Auster, in a cameo role) pulls over and offers him a lift.