Nita's husband Rich dies at eighty-one. Nita has cancer and is expected to die within the year; Nita never anticipated that Rich would die before she did. Nita and Rich had fallen in love while Rich was still married to a woman named Bett, and the fallout had been messy. One morning, a man knocks at Nita's door and says he's there to look at Nita's fuse box. Nita shows him to the box and leaves him to work. When the man comes back up, he asks Nita for something to eat. While she cooks some eggs for him, Nita hands the man a plate and he smashes it on the floor. The man asks Nita if she really thought he came to her house to fix the fuse box, and tells her that he is on the run. He shows Nita a picture of three people whom he tells her are his parents and sister. When the man's dad told the man that his inheriting the family house was contingent upon the man caring for his disabled sister as long as she lived, the man shot his parents and sister in the heads and fled. Nita tells the man that she knows how he feels: she poisoned the woman with whom her husband fell in love. Nita hopes the man realizes what she has presented him with: information with which he could blackmail her down the line, should she speak up about his own crimes. She hopes this exchange will keep her alive. The man grabs Rich's car keys and drives off in the car. The next day, a policeman knocks on Nita's door and tells her that her car was stolen and is now totaled. The driver, a wanted murderer, is dead.