

Nick spots Frank and insists that he resume working at the diner. There, he loses all of the money he earned in another pool game. Once he thinks he has won enough money to start a new life with Cora, he goes back to Glendale.

Frank goes to San Bernardino where he plays pool for money. They agree to run away together before he is released from the hospital, but Cora changes her mind and heads back to the diner, leaving Frank on his own. Shaken by what happened, Frank and Cora agree not to try to kill Nick again, and they act like a couple for a week while Nick is in the hospital. The cop follows Frank back to the diner, but he is satisfied that there was no attempted murder after seeing an electrocuted cat that had stepped on the diner’s fuse box. Nick is rushed to the hospital with Cora and Frank, and he survives. Following their plan to murder Nick, Cora knocks Nick unconscious at the diner, but a cop shows up and the diner’s lights go out before she can drown him as planned.

After declaring their love for each other, Frank and Cora decide that the only way for them to be together is to kill Nick.
