How It All Goes Down
- This is Deep Thoughts from Sheriff "Jack Handy" Bell, coming to you right now, just as Bell is leaving Carla Jean.
- Bell says he never saw Carla Jean again. He tried to tell her that Llewelyn wasn't involved with the hitchhiker, but Carla Jean always hung up on him when he called her to talk about it.
- Then Bell says that something happened to Carla Jean, too. But he doesn't say what.
- Bell attempted to get "his fingerprints" (9.1.1), but no luck. "He's a ghost" (9.1.1), Bell thinks, and we think he must be talking about Chigurh.
- Chigurh returns the sack of cash to an unnamed man in an undisclosed location. But he isn't just some grubby drug dealer: this guy has a receptionist.
- Chigurh dresses like this is a job interview, and it kind of is. He wants to partner with this dude, to make sure he never loses this much money again.
- The man says he'll call Chigurh in two days.
- In March, Carla Jean's mother dies.
- Carla Jean returns from the funeral, and Chigurh is in the house waiting for her.
- Uh oh.
- Chigurh tells Carla Jean that he made a deal with her husband: if Llewelyn gave him the money, he wouldn't kill Carla Jean.
- But Llewelyn never gave Chigurh the money. He had to get it himself.
- So now Chigurh's going to kill Carla Jean.
- "My husband is dead" (9.2.78), Carla says.
- "But I'm not" (9.2.79), Chigurh responds.
- Chigurh makes Carla Jean call a coin toss. She calls heads. It comes up tails.
- Chigurh shoots Carla Jean.
- When he's leaving, Chigurh's car gets sideswiped by a Buick running a stop sign.
- Chigurh is thrown from the car and breaks his arm. The bone is sticking out.
- Two teenagers walk by, and Chigurh pays one of them for his T-shirt. He tells the kids not to tell anyone that they saw him. He wraps the fabric around his arm and flees the scene.
- Sheriff Bell goes to visit some old coot named Ellis.
- Bell and Ellis talk about being old, and about regrets, and they talk about Sheriff Bell's grandmother. Ellis seems to be Bell's uncle.
- Bell's grandmother seems to have had a rough life, but she never got angry about it.
- Bell decides to make a "terrible confession" (9.3.139). He got a war medal, but he always felt bad about it—he only survived because he left the rest of his men behind.
- Ellis tells Bell not to feel guilty. He couldn't have saved them, anyway.
- Bell feels a little better. "I just needed to unload my wagon" (9.3.189), he says.
- Now Bells plans to tell his wife and see what she thinks.