douglas and kramer interrupt haney's speech and take him to the oval office to talk. there they play haney a tape of witnaur's confession, but haney denies knowledge of reynolds' murder or the helicopter explosion. haney agrees to resign and proceeds to give a resignation speech, claiming to have heart problems. douglas and kramer muse that the idiotic matthews will now be elevated from vice president to president and realize that the only way it could have happened was under these circumstances. the pair confront matthews who admits that he, not haney, had engineered the entire plot so that he could become president, knowing haney would take the fall. matthews explains that his stupidity was just an act, but douglas secretly records his confession on tape. matthews is sent to prison.