- Gerardo is back in Pedro's office, just thirty minutes later, to ask for some money to help him get started in Sayula.
- He is extremely humiliated by having to ask, and Pedro refuses to give him the 5,000 pesos he asks for, offering only 1,000.
- Gerardo is bitter, because he got Miguel (Pedro's son), out of jail more than fifteen times, and, it seems, had killed someone named Rentería.
- He must be talking about Father Rentería's brother, who we learned earlier had been killed by Miguel.
- Gerardo had also paid off many different girls to keep them from reporting Miguel's raping them. Yuck.