As the men prepare for a big lunch of magpie-geese, cooked in the canoes on the swamp, the narrator returns to the climax of the old story.

The infant Jedda, snuggled in a coolomon, is carried into the squatters’ kitchen.

Marbuck (Robert Tudawali) and Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth) are in a cave. Marbuck, gradually losing his mind, begins to hallucinate.

Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth), sitting by an open window, gazes out dreamily. Her adoptive mother (Betty Suttor), eventually comes to stand by her side.