The next morning,
Jack asks
Ma if he can take a bath and wash the smell out of his hair, but Ma says Jack needs to keep smelling bad. She begins to tell him Plan B, which is based on the plot of
The Count of Monte Cristo. Ma wants Jack to pretend to be dead. She will roll him up inside Rug and instruct
Old Nick to take him far away to be buried. During the drive, Jack will wriggle out of Rug, leap from the back of the truck at the first stop sign, and ask the first person he sees on the street for help.