Part 9, Epilogue Summary

Almost a year later, Martyn is living at Aunty Jean's. It's not all that bad, he says, in spite of her few annoying habits (one of which is drinking - not as much as Dad, but enough to make things uncomfortable at times). Breece, Martyn says, continued his investigation for a while, but in spite of there being lots of pieces to the puzzle available, he hasn't been able to put it all together - Martyn guesses that Breece thinks Dean killed Dad, and that Martyn killed Dean, but can't prove it. Martyn then reveals what happened to the money - bank security camera footage shows a "a blurred figure cashing a check for sixty thousand dollars on the Tuesday morning", a figure that bears "a passing resemblance to Mr. William Pig." Everyone now knows, Martyn comments, that Dad was dead...