As Drew's road trip continues, Claire's voiceover advises him to proceed to the 2nd Largest Farmer's Market In The World (located, according to Claire, on 2nd Largest Farmer's Market In The World Boulevard). Following Claire's map, Drew navigates the marketplace and locates a pair of Späsmoticas on display. Inside the shoe is a slip of paper offering him the choice of continuing home, or finding the girl in the red hat who is waiting for him.

Drew darts through a sea of passers-by suddenly replete with red hats, before locking eyes with Claire and breaking into a joyful sprint to share a slow-motion kiss with her. At this time, a blurry figure walks away from camera into the distance.

In voiceover, Drew explains, "No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy," tying this revelation in with some stock footage of British war planes, a small plant growing in time lapse, and the reproductive cycle of Pacific Northwest salmon.

Meanwhile, Drew and Claire gaze lovingly into each other's eyes. Credits. (Really.)

Previously, Claire's specially designed map aided Drew on his journey to self-discovery by sending him to destinations as boring or irrelevant as Drew himself. At this crucial point in the itinerary, however, Claire shifts focus back to the kind of location in which she feels most comfortable: one that exists solely within her mind.

While such attractions as the Lorraine Hotel and Dinosaur World can be found on the same maps that feature real-world locales such as Portland, Louisville, and Elizabethtown (overlooking Elizabethtown's unique grasp on their relative geography), the 2nd Largest Farmer's Market In The World does not exist. In fact, a Google search for this alleged tourist destination yields a mere six results , all relating to Elizabethtown only.

However, at the bottom of this mystery lies the key to Elizabethtown's final sequence: the 2nd-Largest Farmer's Market in the World, of course, is a metaphysical location accessible only through use of Claire's mystical map. Like the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Claire's "2nd Largest Farmer's Market In The World Boulevard" is a channel through which Drew is allowed to cross over.

Cameron Crowe, of course, is no stranger to the ambiguity of dream worlds, as he explored similar themes in 2001's Vanilla Sky. The viewer is challenged to recognize certain clues implying this figurative environment; here, Claire's surrealistic voiceover (or perhaps her actual voice booming from marmalade skies) demands that Drew jump through a series of hoops in order for them to end up together, beginning with her insistence that Drew flip through a book about dogs in order to find the next instruction. These arbitrary instructions clearly reflect the pointlessness of everything that has happened in the film so far.

In one final, unspeakably cruel jab, Claire's voiceover directs Drew to a retail display of the shoe that ruined his career and nearly drove him to suicide. Though it is traditional, of course, that the dreamer is unaware that he is dreaming, the audience remains acutely aware that in Drew's real world, the Späsmotica is not on sale anywhere as its recall was explicitly shown in the film's opening shot. The Späsmotica's inclusion in this scene must therefore have symbolic relevance, such as reminding Drew that no matter how much personal growth he achieves through the visitation of rubber dinosaurs, he will always be $1 billion worth of failure.

Claire's omniscient voice offers Drew one final escape from her insane clutches in the last frames of Elizabethtown, perhaps experiencing a single moment of clarity in which she feels mercy for the very first time. This moment is followed by shots of Drew looking around with more excitement and purpose than ever; though we instinctively presume he is frantically looking for the parking lot, the enthusiasm with which he dives into Claire's arms demonstrates how thoroughly they deserve each other. And so the lovers embrace triumphantly, as if there was anything keeping them apart besides the film's runtime.

In keeping with the dreamlike quality of this clip, the blurred man we glimpse is never identified; interestingly, however, if we are meant to understand this ethereal figure as Mitch Baylor, it means that the Elizabethtown shooting script included the words "EXT. HEAVEN - DAY."

Finally, we are presented with a series of unprecedented stock footage shots, concluding with grainy footage of swimming salmon. Drew observes, "The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on its quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose. Sex, of course. But also… life." Which is, of course, two purposes. Thus, coming elegantly full circle, both Drew Baylor and Elizabethtown begin and end in rampant, utter failure.