At the androgynous Bev's initiative, in an encounter that reverses the commercial gender-signifiers established in David's previous existence, the two have sex on the clinic floor. At the end of each week, on a table above the carnal ground, the couple kill the surplus dogs. David drives the animal bodies to the hospital incinerator. David undertakes the final handling of the stiffened corpses himself. No haunting heads return.
Surplus nature rests in peace.
Lucy does not. Lurie presses Lucy to break her silence, to lay a formal complaint of rape with the authorities. Whatever the injustices of the past she must defend human rights. Like her father before her Lucy is silent. In her attackers she, too, senses an elemental force.