Although followed, Ben and Luke and the droids proceeded to the docking bay, where they saw Solo""s battered, modifiedMillennium Falcon(Luke: "What a piece of junk!").Anne, I""m sorry, I""m sorry I said hat.Anne: All right, Jack.I""ll go away with you.I""ll do anything you want me to.(They kiss.)Jack: I""ve wanted you to say that more than anything in the world.And now that you have said it - Anne, I guess you were right.I""m not sure of anything, including myself.I""m not sure I could live up to the...Anne, wait for me.Please wait for me.Anne: I""ll wait for you.Burden cuts his vacation short and returns to the newspaper.Although honorable and truthful and considered a "log cabin Abe Lincoln," Willie""s efforts are hopeless against the state""s "dishonest" political machine, and he loses the County Treasurer election ("I guess hat""s the end of Willie Stark," Burden mutters).Events that Lorraine had earlier described weren""t exactly fulfilled - George was ""bird-watching"" (actually he was a peeping tom) when he fell into the street from a tree limb.The Dust-Bowl period is effectively evoked, although the loose adaptation is also an inaccurate and fictionalized retelling of history.