Several hours later, festivities have relocated to the backyard but hardly abated. Drew, apparently relegated to the "kids table," signs an autograph for a female fan while Charlie, his admirer from the previous clip, enthusiastically bombards him with questions such as, "Where can I find an original model of Adidas SL 72s?"

Uncle Dale reprimands Jessie for his careless attitude regarding Samson's earlier shenanigans. Jessie explains that his parenting is untraditional: "I teach [Samson] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant, because in my house they are both of equal importance!"

Meanwhile, Bill Banyan addresses a neat assembly of townspeople regarding Mitch's memorial service, informing them that this upcoming event will be defined by "excitement" rather than tears, and offering to arrange everything himself.

Drew goes home with Jessie and the cousins share a drink while discussing Drew's parents. When Jessie expresses surprise that Hollie didn't make it out to Elizabethtown, Drew explains that she's "pretty broken up" about Mitch's death, but sends her love. Drew's insistence that he and his father were "very, very close" is met with knowing skepticism.

Jessie proudly tells Drew about his band, Ruckus, which almost opened for Leonard Skynyrd at a music festival. Out of nowhere, Jessie begins singing one of their songs, prompting high-pitched screams from Samson on the other side of the house. Drew only smiles and stares at the photographs on Jessie's wall.

Back in Louisville, Drew arrives at The Brown Hotel.

It would appear that Drew's enchantment over the Baylors and Connellys has all but worn off, though it has been replaced with a bevy of young people less concerned with his affiliation with Mitch Baylor than with the legendary Späsmotica. While this makes a certain amount of sense, since these kids would not have been born the last time Mitch called Elizabethtown home, it raises perplexing questions both old (Why is anyone star-struck by a shoe designer?) and new (What makes Charlie so comfortable practically sitting in Drew's lap?).

We note that Elizabethtown's joy at Mitch's passing is wholly undeterred by the transition of day into night, and at this point we would consider it highly unlikely that Mitch's name is still on anyone's lips; against expectations, however, Bill Banyan is still reminding Elizabethtownies not to cry at Mitch's memorial; surely this disclaimer is nearly as wasted as the people listening to it, a hiccuping band of mourners who have just caroused their way through a man's wake.

Just as he discovered the relative ease of bonding with younger generations as opposed to his father's (or his own, to some degree), Drew finds comfort in the cognitive youth of his cousin Jessie, perhaps sensing that this is something they share despite their disparate upbringings. Nevertheless, although the cousins are able to bond over similarly distant relationships with their fathers, it would appear that Drew is still not being honest when he testifies to his mother's emotional distress, as we recall that Hollie's only direct reaction to the event of her husband's demise was a dry-eyed, "Oh my god, I have to clean out the office."

Jessie's unsolicited burst into song, while serving to make each and every member of the audience tremendously uncomfortable, elicits no discernible reaction from Drew, though perhaps it would be generous at this point to say that we expect the unexpected from the deranged residents of this town. Surprisingly, however, the film takes a sharp turn into reason as Samson's shrieks of protest echo our own. While Samson initially seemed poised as a nuisance or lovable antagonist, it is now clear that Samson's sensibilities most clearly mirror our own. At last, Elizabethtown has given us someone to root for.