Newton: If a man's dead, he can't come back.
Briggs: But can we know this? We can't know the answer to this question until we are dead ourselves.
Newton: When something like this happens to me, I'll believe it. But not before.
A room in a small country hotel. There is not much light. Newton and Briggs have come to stay at the hotel for the night. The Old Man is sitting on the other side of the room.