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Chigurh delivers the case to its owner and kills Carla Jean.

Matilda, the Great Western, snatches a snapping turtle out of the river, or off a rock according to Long Bill. Most of Major Chevallie’s troop lie around drunk from the previous night’s spoil of Mescal. All except Gus and Call, who are trying to break a mare.

Moss and the girl travel west Texas together talking about their plans. He encourages her to improve her situation, giving her money to help get her to California safety after he drops her off on El Paso. Neither of them makes it there. They are shot down outside of their motel. Bell and other deputies investigate the scene. Chigurh retrieves the case from the air duct.

The duo make it back to the village and reunite with their families.

On the way back to their village, the duo encounters the company of Don Álvaro, a major player in the forged second volume of Don Quixote’s history. They compel him to swear legally that they are the real Quixote and Panza, and that the men he travelled with were imposters. Sancho also “fulfills” his penance, and Quixote looks to every girl they pass in hopes of encountering Dulcinea.

Chigurh kills the man who sent Wells and then squats at Carla Jean’s mother’s home. Meanwhile, Carla Jean and her mother go to seek refuge in El Paso. Moss grabs the case, takes a cab to San Antonio, buys a vehicle, and picks up a young hitchhiker.

The duo make their way back to their village. Along the way, Quixote offers Sancho money in exchange for his whipping himself to disenchant Dulcinea. Sancho gets underway but comes up with the scheme of whipping the trees in the Don’s hearing to save himself some pain.

The events involving Sansón Carrasco scheming with the Duke and Duchess to put Don Quixote out are revealed. Altisidora weaves a tale of her seeing devils playing ball with the forged second volume of Don Quixote’s tale at the gates of hell. Don Quixote rejects her advances and almost immediately quits the Duke and Duchess’s castle.

Bell and other law enforcement scope out the hotel scene. Wells tracks down Moss to a Mexican hospital.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are party to an elaborate ritual where Altisidora appears to be dead, and a host of duennas abuse Sancho in various ways before the Duke and Duchess and two apparent kings.

Don and Sancho try to lie down for a rest but are interrupted by a stampede of swine. After this, the duo is apparently kidnapped and arrives at the Duke’s castle.

Bell and Wendell return to the scene to reassess with the DEA agent McIntyre. Chigurh tracks Moss to the second (third technically) hotel he has holed up in and flushes him out, Moss narrowly escaping a brutal firefight and crossing the Mexican border and pleading for help from and old man in a park.

Bell and Wendell study the scene of the drug deal gone wrong in horseback and conclude the last man standing is not there. Chigurh stays close on Moss’s trail, paying visits both to his trailer and his job. Moss holes up in the Trail Motel and hides the case deep in the air vent and visits several stores arming himself for conflict while keeping a close eye on his surroundings.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza resolve to become shepherds and dream about their peaceful lives as such.

Chigurh eats cashews and leaves the proprietor’s fate up to the toss of a coin. Then he goes out to the barrial to examine the scene Llewelyn was involved in the day before. Llewelyn and Carla Jean part ways at the bus station at Fort Stockton.

Bell and Wendell are called out to the scene of a man’s body with a hole in the forehead dumped in the trunk of a police cruiser. When Torbert arrives at Sonora, the station is surrounded by yellow tape and is in something of an uproar. Moss makes it back home in the middle of the night and tells Carla Jean he is sending her to Odessa by bus early the next morning and to pack what she wants.

Along the road, the two squires encounter a crowd of people at an inn trying to determine how to even the odds between two men of drastically different weights who have challenged each other to a race, and also Tosilos, delivering a message for the Duke.

Moss returns to the scene in the middle of the night, guilty for abandoning the man asking for water. His truck is stolen, and he is pursued by unknown enemies who end up shooting his arm after he crosses the river. He begins his trek to Langtry on foot beaten and battered.

Moss, while out hunting, stumbles upon the site of a drug deal gone wrong. There is one man alive at the scene, barely clinging to life and asking for water. He trails the blood-soaked chaparral to the would-be last man standing, who has now also died while guarding a briefcase containing millions of dollars in cash. He takes the case home along with numerous weapons, telling his wife he was buying cigarettes.

The Knight of the White Moon is revealed to be Sansón Carrasco, still striving to make Don Quixote return home. Later, he and Sancho do begin the journey home as the group disbands.

After a haunting introduction from Ed Tom Bell, Shigur escapes from Deputy custody by strangling him with his handcuffs, steals his car, then pulls a man in a Ford over and dispatches him with his pneumatic execution device.

While the duo are shown the galleys, a pirate vessel attacks and kills two soldiers. The captain ends up being the long lost Ana Félix, daughter of Ricote. Later, Don Quixote is challenged by the Knight of the White Moon in combat and loses.

Emma dies; Rudy sues the folks who built the mantelpiece with the concrete from Oak Ridge.

After talking about epilogues, Rudy discovers the mantelpiece in the Avondale home is radioactive; it is replaced at the expense of the sons of the Maritimo brothers. He concludes his mother’s story ended when she married his father.

Dwayne probes Felix as to why he started sobbing during the funeral. Felix confesses he and Celia were “high school sweethearts,” at which point Dwayne pleads with him to come to the cemetery.

After returning to Midland City in his brand-new Rolls-Royce that he wrecked on the drive, Felix joins Rudy and Emma for Celia’s funeral. Rudy imagines human lives as a cells in an animal of galactic proportions before being called out about the play and Celia’s role in it.

Don Antonio shows Don Quixote shows him his talking bust in a scene that plays out much like the divining ape from much earlier. A day or two later, Quixote walks the town and stumbles into a printing house, where books are printed for money not fame, in a scene that feels somewhat autobiographical for Cervantes.

The group reaches Barcelona, where shortly after arriving, the men’s mounts are greeted with some gorse being shoved in their rear ends and buck their riders off.

Celia visits the drugstore asking for pills and claiming to be in love with Rudy. After being rejected on both counts, she sacks the store and leaves thousands of dollars worth of gold coins on the floor. Rudy calls Bunny to let him know about his mother; Bunny informs him of Felix’s termination from NBC. Rudy later calls Felix who is excited about the prospect of returning to Midland City.

Rudy recounts several events after his father’s death: his and his mother’s having to move to a small home built by the Maritimo brothers, Felix’s job at NBC, the construction of the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts, and Celia’s near-death on an airport runway. He describes all these events with a dissociated sense of alienation.