 A heartbroken Petersen returns to her position at the hospital, where Murchison is once again the director.Murchison lets slip that he had known Edwardes slightly and did not like him, contradicting his earlier statement that they had never met.Now suspicious, Petersen reconsiders her notes from the dream and realizes that the wheel was a revolver, and that the man hiding behind the chimney and dropping the wheel was Murchison, who shot Edwardes and then dropped the gun.