charlie goes back to renata and gives her the photo, and she tells him that vic had called her earlier and said that charlie had been right about mob enforcer roy gelles tailing them. charlie takes pete home after he vomits in charlie's car, leaving him passed out on the floor of his living room. charlie then "borrows" a mercedes benz that pete had bought for sarabeth, and goes to vic's house. he finds vic's wife dead from a gunshot wound to her head. vic arrives and reveals that he's locked roy in an industrial clothes trunk. the two stuff roy and vic's dead wife into the trunk of charlie's "borrowed" mercedes and head for a local lake. on the way, roy continues yelling at the two of them, claiming that it was vic who shot his wife. vic gets annoyed and shoots a hole in the trunk, silencing roy. charlie and vic get the trunk down to the lake dock, but it's shot open from the inside by gelles, with vic being shot in the process. after gelles gets out of the trunk a shootout ensues, ending with roy dead and vic falling into the frozen lake when the dock collapses. charlie realizes that vic was going to kill him and take the money for himself, so he leaves vic to die. charlie drags vic's wife to the collapsed dock and slides her into the lake, knocking a pleading vic underwater. charlie opens vic's suit case expecting to find the stolen money, only to see vic's clothes. he realizes that without vic, he will probably never find the money. charlie runs back to the dock to save vic, but it is too late. vic has already drowned in the freezing water, with his wife's arms draped around him.