Our heros are forced to abandon the truck and go back into the park on foot, where Ripley spies his money teetering precariously at the crash site (which is now mysteriously devoid of agents, tunnels, and saran wrap), and falls to his death in a heavily symbolic scene that should be shown in schools to all children who are contiplating accepting money to drive virusmobiles into national parks; they can't be taught young enough about this sort of thing.
   Alone in the woods ay last, Ken and Larraine have a stimulating conversation in which he tells her the boo-hoo story of how his football career ended early due to an injury, and she reveals that she not only knows of his deeds on the football field, but - lo and behold - is actually a Cornhusker herself! Upon realizing that their trivial reminiscing doesn't mean shit since they are presently being stalked by undercover government agents in the middle of a deadly, virus-infected park, they decide to keep moving. After dispatching of a few "rangers" here and there, they come upon a cliff wall with no apparent way around. Ken decides that they should rappel down it, since "the first thing an Oklahoma boy learns is how to use a rope" (a frightening statement that could be interpreted several different ways, none of which will be explored here), and upon reaching the ground Fairchild has a brainstorm: they are not infected because they both have colds. Colds? However implausible and retarded this explanation may be, it does explain their ability to run around the woods in search of the destination of the virus infected water, which is spreading rapidly. (This explanation does not, however, explain how any of the hundreds of other people are running around unaffected - does the virus keep banker's hours and stop infecting after four-thirty?) Said destination turns out to be a geyser, which, on exploding, will spray and infect everyone at the One World Conference, including president John Lawrence Wheeler.