While Dana is in the hospital, she has a conversation with Kevin about her last trip to the Antebellum South. Butler reveals the idea that people will do anything in order to survive. In the final scene, Dana travels back to the Weylin plantation to find a much older Rufus. He tells Dana that Alice hung herself because she thought that Rufus sold their children. Rufus was only joking. He only wanted her to do more stuff for him. As the conversation goes on, Rufus tries to rape Dana. Dana grabs a knife and stabs him repeatedly. Rufus falls on Dana’s arm and she passes out. While Dana continues her conversation with Kevin, she says, “ I could feel the knife on my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A slave was a slave. Anything could be done
