after richie finishes with the gypsies, lemke agrees to meet with billy. lemke brings a strawberry pie with him and adds blood from billy's wounded hand to it, saying that the curse can be transferred to someone else but not destroyed. the weight loss will stop for a short time and then resume unless another person eats the pie, which will strike him/her with the curse and allow billy to regain his health. lemke begs billy to eat it himself and die with dignity, but billy instead takes it home, finding richie's severed hand in his car. later, from a news report, he learns that richie has been found shot to death with the word "pig" written in blood on his forehead.