Acting on Mayor Handsome’s advice, the group follows a wash back toward town. At first, they run, eager for Rossi to make the race on time. However, the intense heat soon slows them to a walk. They joke around to distract themselves from the intense conditions. Soon, their water supply is exhausted, and they douse themselves with the lake water to keep cool.

Finally, they see the Nowhere Market and Ostrich Farm. As they walk into town, they bump into Bo and Jacob Asher. They hand Bo his piece of gold and ask that he turn over Loretta. However, Bo is suspicious that their haul is much larger and demands two pieces of gold instead. Furious, Gus and Rossi consider attacking Bo. Before they can move, Matthew speaks up and confirms Bo’s suspicions. Gus and Rossi criticize Matthew for his cowardice. However, they soon realize that Matthew is playing Bo, as he describes the bag of fake jewels that Gus brought home from Disneyland. Convinced that the jewels were really discovered in the mine, Bo agrees to ride to Gus’s trailer with Loretta in tow.

Gus and Rossi run to Gus’s trailer. Grandma is watching TV and hardly notices their entrance. Gus transfers the fake jewels to the old leather bag, stashing the gold in his bedside table.