billy the kid is soon brought back into lincoln by garrett and is sentenced to death by hanging. he is then visited by jane greathouse, who arranges to leave a pistol in an outhouse. billy uses the pistol to kill two guards and escapes to old fort sumner. by the time he arrives, dave has abandoned the group to make his way to mexico, and chavez is dying from a bullet wound he sustained during the ambush that killed doc. during the night, garrett finds billy unarmed. billy asks garrett to let him run to mexico and tell the authorities that he killed him. garrett declines because he believes billy would not be able to resist coming back to the united states (which would lead to garrett's death for lying). billy turns around, forcing garrett to have to shoot him in the back, which he does not. in the morning, a fake burial is staged for billy, and garrett's horse is seen being taken by an unknown figure (implied to be billy). brushy bill admits he never stole a horse from someone he did not like, and further admits he did not just like garrett, he loved him. phalen, convinced that brushy bill is billy the kid, agrees to help him.