- [first lines]
- George Morton: I remember two Willie Binghams. One, pasty-faced with fear after the sentence was read and the other after the series of amputations. The first is now blurred by the painfully sharp focus of the second.
- [last lines]
- George Morton: Mr. Bingham's room is the last on the southern end of the top floor. The light is always on and I know he's there, eyes to the ceiling, dead silent. Except the last week of every month. That's when Mr. Bingham and I travel to the high schools.
- Willie Bingham: Why don't they just do what they used to do huh?
- [shouts]
- Willie Bingham: Just execute me! Once and for all.