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A heartbroken Dr. Petersen returns to her position at the hospital, where Dr. Murchison is once again the director.

After reconsidering her notes from the dream, she realizes that the ' wheel ' was a revolver and that the man hiding behind the chimney and dropping the wheel was Dr. Murchison hiding behind a tree, shooting Dr. Edwardes and dropping the gun.

She confronts Murchison with this and he confesses, but says that he didn't drop the gun ; he still has it.

He pulls it out of his desk and threatens to shoot her.

She walks away, the gun still pointed at her, and explains that while the first murder carried extenuating circumstances of his own mental state, murdering her as well surely would result in the electric chair.

He allows her to leave and turns the gun on himself.

Dr. Petersen is then reunited with Ballantyne.