Steve Kemp moves out of Castle Rock. He plans to leave town permanently.

Charity Camber has breakfast with her son, Brett. She asks him if he’d like to go to Connecticut with her to visit his aunt. He becomes excited at the idea but quickly grows doubtful when Charity reveals that she hasn’t asked Joe for permission yet. The two concoct an idea to buy Joe a new chainfall for his business. When Brett doubts that they can afford such expensive equipment, Charity reveals that she has won the lottery.

Vic arrives at the Ad Worx office, mulling over the Sharp Cereals situation. He brainstorms an idea for a new ad: The Cereal Professor apologizes in a television commercial. He thinks this will save Vic, Roger, and Sharp.

That afternoon, two men arrive at the Camber yard to drop off the chainfall Charity bought that morning for Joe. As they put the equipment in the garage, they come across Cujo, who growls at them: “Its eyes glared at them with steady, sunken animosity” (72). The men run out of the garage in panic, and Cujo retreats to the shadows.

Vic Trenton receives Steve Kemp’s letter at work. He goes to a local park to consider whether to leave Donna.