When he rises to leave, he lightly places his hand on Laura""s cloth-coated shoulder and then departs.]He is in despair because his absent, divorced parents have abandoned him to the black maid/housekeeper.As they walked back to the Woody, Cholo was bitten in the hand by a zombie ("Nothing works out the way you want it to") - he elected to pursue Kaufman before turning into an undead zombie himself: "I always wanted to see how the other half lives.Oh, Jo! I think I""ll be homesick for you - even in heaven.Jo writes an ode to her sister titled "My Beth":Oh my sister, passing from meOut of human care and strifeLeave me, as a gift those virtuesWhich have beautified your lifeBy that deep and solemn riverWhere your willing feet now standBeth""s last words are spoken to Jo: "I think I can sleep now.In preparation, Tony set out a new pair of white gloves (removed from a brown paper bag) and a cane (to pretend he was incapacitated).