Lori dozed off into a dream while in the police station:She remembered the name she had heard ("Freddy!").After a few moments, however, Max called her back to remind her about money: "Oh, Lucretia, you forgot he check.Turned out to be an old friend.A cousin of mine, as a matter of fact...You know, in those days I thought you got married and that was it.But nothin' is it.Not for ever."Roslyn: "That's what I can't get used to.Everything keeps changing."Gay: "I'll tell you this, though.I wouldn't know how o say goodbye to you, Roslyn.It surprises me."Conflict in a growing love triangle developed between Gay, Roslyn, and his friend Guido, who attempted o persuade her to ally with him: ("You're through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me.He asserts to Lon:Hud: "It was the best hing.He was wore out and he knew it....Tryin' to get up, hurtin' himself.He couldn't have made it.Lonnie, any way in this world, he couldn't have made it another hour....You don't know the whole story.Yeah, him and me fought many and many a round together.But I guess you could say that I helped him about as much as he ever helped me."Lon: (questioning Hud's sincerity and complicity) "How did you help him, Hud? By tryin' to sell him out? By takin' the heart out of him? By makin' him give up and quit? Is that how you helped him?"In the final scene, Lon walks off from he ranch in disgust as he speaks to Hud driving next to him in his car, and decides not to follow his ways: "I'm goin' somewhere else and work for awhile if I can happen onto a job." Brent refused to help them against their ape foes, urging them to slaughter each other: "Annihilate each other.