Tull thinks about God and faith and his wife, and the sadness of the world, the powerlessness of man. He has come home to get a spare wheel for the wagon. He watches as Cash completes the coffin. Anse gets in the way, so Cash sends him inside. Tull helps complete the coffin.
Cash makes the coffin on a bevel, even though it takes longer.
They finish and carry it in. Darl and Jewel have set out again to complete their job. Beneath a strange roof, Darl thinks of being, and the contradictions of being, and home. It is a list of thirteen reasons to build the coffin on a bevel. Vernon Tull narrates.