- Ben is forced to walk alongside the other men to a lynching tree.
- He starts panicking—the last time this happened, he was hanging from the tree in no time.
- When he yells out to Jacob, though, he's told to shut it.
- Ben can't believe his own friend would do this to him.
- This is when he realizes that he's not the one being lynched. There's already a man over there, and he's white.