Joe Willie and Andrew are brought back to Sumner Hills and they are to face the judge in the shooting death of Andrew's father. The judge rules that the two boys are to be separated from each other, and he warns them that if they are ever seen together again, he will take measures to make certain that one of them, if not both of them, will spend the rest of their lives in jail. Andrew is taken in by a White foster fatally, and Joe Willie goes back to live with his grandmother.