The film ends on a bittersweet, unhappy note when the couple realizes that their chaste romance is over." The house collapsed and toppled down the hillside as Getz was freed, and all of the gang members were killed except the fleeing Vorstedt.[Kit has illusions of his own grandiosity and mythic status, even at this early stage in the film.] Holly fantasizes about how she comforts Kit, (in a surrealistic image, he lies in bed decorated from behind with peacock feathers and next to her catfish that is gasping for breath), while wearing angelic white robes and coming o him in the middle of the night:And as he lay in bed, in the middle of the night, he always heard a noise like somebody was holding a seashell against his ear.The slightly-injured Fowler was rescued by US Marines arriving in Super Stallion helicopters, and taken to a Boeing E-4B NAOC (National Airborne Operations Center), an advanced airborne command post in flight (without Cabot).