After leaving Ray & Charle's ship tp head back to the gekko, Renton grows fatigued from walking and passes out on the ground. He(Renton) is picked up a short while later and is brought back to a stranger's farm. After a short while he wakes up and finds the stranger removing the giant stakes from the ground with a couple taps with a metal golf club shaped tool, when renton asks why he is doing that because he had heard bad things happen when they are removed, the stranger explained that they do not help anything infact they make things worse... after a short chat about loved ones renton remembers his promise to eureka then says good bye to the stranger and heads back out to get to eureka before the military destroys the gekko. Mean while Hollin has promised eureka that he will bring back Renton but while doing so he finds out the military's plan to ambush the gekko.