when ida enters the bar, the paranoid pinkie decides to carry out his plan for rose's death, and takes her for a walk on the pier. pinkie convinces rose he will soon be hanged and the two of them should commit suicide in order to always stay together. he gives rose his gun and tries to get her to shoot herself first. rose, a catholic, is torn between her love for pinkie and the religious prohibition against suicide, and hesitates. meanwhile, dallow and ida, both wishing to protect the innocent rose, alert police, who rush onto the pier after pinkie. upon seeing the police, rose throws the gun into the water and pinkie tries to run away, but falls from the pier to his death. a grief-stricken rose later plays the damaged record of pinkie's voice, which sticks on pinkie's words "i love you" without playing the rest. rose clings to the belief that pinkie really did love her.