in the final scene, judah and cliff meet by happenstance at the wedding of the daughter of rabbi ben, who is cliff's brother-in-law and judah's patient. judah has worked through his guilt and is enjoying life once more; the murder had been blamed on a drifter with a criminal record. he draws cliff into a supposedly hypothetical discussion that draws upon his moral quandary. judah says that with time, any crisis will pass; but cliff morosely claims instead that one is forever fated to bear one's burdens for "crimes and misdemeanors". judah cheerfully leaves the wedding party with his wife, and cliff is left sitting alone, dejected. ben the rabbi, who is now blind, shares a dance with his daughter while the voice of prof. levy is heard, saying that the universe is a dark and indifferent place which human beings fill with love, in the hope that it will give the void a meaning.