The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Göran and Ranelid arrive at Bellringer Farm the next morning. Göran senses some unreported crimes of which the crew is guilty and in which he himself might now be an accomplice. He vows to remain silent during the interview because Ranelid presumptively declared Allan’s group innocent. Allan begins to explain the events after his escape by rambling incoherently. As the dialogue progresses, the prosecutor cuts him off every time he starts to speak. Whenever the prosecutor swears or uses and an epithet, The Beauty—who now claims to be a biblical interpreter—tells him to watch his language. Each taking part, Allan’s crew explains that they were friends and co-workers before Allan’s escape. The crew spins a far-fetched story in which Bolt wanted to burn the Bibles that they used to evangelize and then headed to Djibouti to join the French Foreign Legion, while Bucket showed up inebriated at Gunilla’s farm before heading to Latvia to become a drug smuggler. In trying to overtake his friends on the bus, Pike lost control of his car, and therefore the bus smashed into it. At the end of their implausible story, the prosecutor silently rises, goes to his car, and drives away.

Ranelid decides that he must shift the blame for his accusations of the gang onto someone else.