When Mark wheeled himself onto the lodge""s porch, a machete sliced diagonally into his face(# 6 death), and his wheelchair crashed backwards, down a steep outside flight of stairs.He discovers her left-behind handkerchief, views it longingly, and pockets it.Six months have passed by the time of this next scene.Marguerite has become the mistress/lover of her protector, the Baron de Varville.On his imminent departure to Russia, she fingers the string of his monocle and lightly explains how the doctors have warned her about traveling with him ("the trip will be too much for me") on his imminent departure ("I shall get tired, I shall get ill again")." An equally plain girl Clara Snyder (Betsy Blair) is in the process of being rejected at the dance by Herb (Alan Wells), her blind date.(To Peterson) What about Wally Fay? How do you knowhedidn""t do it.Peterson: Fay had no motive.This man had.You see, Mrs.Beragon, we start out with nothing.Just a corpse, if you""ll pardon the expression.OK.We look at the corpse and we say why? What was the reason? And when we find the reason, we find the man that made the corpse.In the stirring conclusion, human-being Decker offered himself up tophysicallymerge with V""Ger (symbolized by uniting with its android probe Ilia) to provide a "human quality" - to merge man and machine; the merging took place in a dazzling, explosive shower of white light, creating a new glowing alien entity or non-corporeal life form ("We witnessed a birth.