NCOM - Summary by Chapter

Question 1

Sheriff Bell recounts sending a boy to the gas chamber.

Answer 1

Chapter I

Question 2

• Chigurh kills Deputy Haskins, then a man to steal his car.
• Moss hunts for antelopes and finds trucks, dead men, a dying one asking for water, money. Drives back home to the Desert Aire trailer park, hides the money, lies to his wife.

Answer 2

Chapter I

Question 3

Goes back in the night to check on the dying man, brings water. Barely escapes the men waiting for him, jumps in the river, gets shot, realizes he must hurry back.

Answer 3

Chapter I

Question 4

Sheriff Bell recounts old family house. The stone water trough in the back. Dreams of his father.

Answer 4

Chapter XIII

Question 5

Sheriff Bell expresses deep love for Loretta,speaks of her and his spirituality.

Answer 5

Chapter XII

Question 6

Speaker (Bell?) walks out of the courthouse for the last time

Answer 6

Chapter XII

Question 7

Sheriff Bell picks up: finds Moss’ father. They talk about Vietnam. Bell assesses his life. Remembers testifying at a Mexican man’s trial, speaking to him on death row. Remembers talk with county prosecutor about Chigurh.

Answer 7

Chapter XI

Question 8

Bell rides after Loretta. Sunset.

Answer 8

Chapter XI

Question 9

Odessa police calls Bell about Carla Jean’s murder. Bells drives there to speak with boy who picked up the weapon, David DeMarco, and then his friend. Depiction of Chigurh largely inconclusive.

Answer 9

Chapter X

Question 10

Sheriff Bell picks up once more, speaks of Aunt Carolyn and Harold in WWI.

Ed Tom walks around “that ground.” Talks to his daughter.

Answer 10

Chapter X

Question 11

Sheriff Bell picks up where narrator left off. Summarizes her and his predicament.

Answer 11

Chapter IX

Question 12

• Chigurh returns the money, offers his services.
• Carla Jean returns from her mother’s funeral. Chigurh is waiting for her at home. They talk. Offers her a coin toss. He shoots her.

Answer 12

Chapter IX

Question 13

• A car hits Chigurh three blocks away. Breaks arm, ribs, cuts his head and leg. Two teenage boys help him; one gives him his shirt.
• They take Chigurh’s gun from his truck.
• Bell visits his uncle Ellis. They discuss age, the county, uncle Mac’s death. Ed Tom confesses to Ellis about his behavior during WWII.

Answer 13

Chapter IX

Question 14

Sheriff Bell goes over the friends he lost, the drug wars

Answer 14

Chapter VIII

Question 15

• Moss and the girl in conversation. They pull into Van Horn around seven p.m. They have a drink. Moss does not cheat on Carla Jean.
• Man washes his car covered in blood outside of Balmorhea.
• Bell heads for Van Horn early in the morning. Passes a burning

Answer 15

Chapter VIII

Question 16

• Bell heads for Van Horn early in the morning. Passes a burning car, stops at Balmorhea, gets to Van Horn at 10.25. Finds motel where shootout took place in the night. Two men and a woman. Drives to the clinic. Moss and the girl are dead. Drives back to the motel on a hunch.
• Chigurh checks into a motel and visits crime scene. Finds money in airduct. Bells drives in as he sits back in his car. Sheriff calls for backup, Chigurh can’t be found. Bell visits Carla Jean.

Answer 16

Chapter VIII

Question 17

Sheriff Bell won’t talk about the war, talks about the sixties, common people.

Answer 17

Chapter VII

Question 18

• Chigurh visits Houston building, kills the man who sent Carson Wells to kill him.
• At dawn, Carla Jean and her sick mother are at the bus station, heading for El Paso.
• After one in the morning, Chigurh visits their house, goes through their mail.

Answer 18

Chapter VII

Question 19

• Moss is staying at a motel, takes a cab to the bridge where he hid the money, get driver to take him to San Antonio. Sleeps at
  Rodeway Inn, west of town, buys a gun. Buys a pickup, leaves and picks up a hitchhiking girl. He asks her to drive.
• Bell comes home. Loretta informs him Carla Jean called. Calls back motel near El Paso, promises not to harm Moss.
• Men listening have the address.

Answer 19

Chapter VII

Question 20

Sheriff Bell discusses young people, his own youth during WWII, raising children today.

Answer 20

Chapter VI

Question 21

• Chigurh buys veterinary supplies for his wounded leg outside
  Uvalde. Burns a car near a drugstore, finds medicine he needs, stops at a hotel outside Hondo, stays five days then leaves after seeing two deputies in a cafe.
• Wells pretends to take touristy pictures near bridge where Moss crossed over.
• Bell is told by Molly the cars from the desert shootout belonged to people long dead. Scolds man carrying those dead bodies in his flatbed truck. Drives to Devil’s Ridge Bridge, watches sunset, is mocked by driver-by.

Answer 21

Chapter VI

Question 22

• Chigurh listens to signal, finds hotel, waits for Wells. They talk.

-Chigurh justifies death of deputy Haskins as “act of will.” Shoots Wells, answers Wells’ phone.

• Moss calls Odessa from his ward, speaks to Carla Jean. Calls Wells, speaks to Chigurh. Chigurh offers Moss a deal, who refuses. Moss finds a driver to take him across bridge. Buys new boots and clothes.
• Bell and deputy find Wells and dead clerk. They express dismay, speak of the drug epidemic.

Answer 22

Chapter VI

Question 23

Chigurh listens to signal, finds hotel, waits for Wells. They talk.
Chigurh justifies death of deputy Haskins as “act of will.” Shoots Wells, answers Wells’ phone.

• Moss calls Odessa from his ward, speaks to Carla Jean. Calls Wells, speaks to Chigurh. Chigurh offers Moss a deal, who refuses. Moss finds a driver to take him across bridge. Buys new boots and clothes.
• Bell and deputy find Wells and dead clerk. They express dismay, speak of the drug epidemic.

Answer 23

Chapter VI

Question 24

• Houston office. Wells discusses Chigurh with “the man.” Goes hunting for him, the money.
• Wells enters Eagle Pass hotel. Examines mayhem, notably the Aztec Theatre, where he finds a dead woman on the second floor.
• Moss wakes up in hospital with Carson Wells, who warns him.

Answer 24

Chapter V

Question 25

Sheriff Bell continues family history, speaks of the significance of the dead.
Mentions horrific anecdote about a couple in California to talk about how things are changing.

Answer 25

Chapter V

Question 26

• Bell drives to Odessa to speak to Llewelyn’s wife, staying with her mother. They talk at the Sunshine Cafe, Bell warns her.
• Bells is called in the night about the Eagle Pass shouting, arrives nine fifteen in the morning. Drives back to Sanderson, home, Loretta.

Answer 26

Chapter V

Question 27

Sheriff Bell speaks of his family, his father, his grandfather and his lost child.

Praises his wife Loretta. Considers himself lucky.

Answer 27

Chapter IV

Question 28

• Bell visits Desert Aire trailer with Wendell early on Tuesday
  morning.
• A reporter questions Bell about the events, drives with Tolbert to Moss’s truck. DEA agent McIntyre arrives. They go over the
  shootout.

Answer 28

Chapter IV

Question 29

• Chigurh follows transponder signal to Del Rio, shoots at a bird in the dead of night.
• Moss returns to motel, gets adjacent room, retrieves the money.
• Chigurh comes to motel past midnight (kills clerk), listens to the signal. Kills a Mexican man, then another. Notices airduct.
• At the office, Bell tells Tolbert about the airpowered gun.

Answer 29

Chapter IV

Question 30

• Moss arrives at Eagle Pass Hotel, finds transponder. Chigurh comes,Moss points a gun at him, leaves. Chigurh shoots him from balcony window. Fires at two men in a car. Buys a coat from a party of drunk men. Gets to Piedra Negras, State of Coahuila, across the Rio Grande. Begs a street sweeper for a doctor.
• Chigurh, wounded in the leg, walks out of hotel. Shoots men in Cadillac. Kills man watching hotel. Kills surviving man from the car.

Answer 30

Chapter IV

Question 31

• Bell, Wendell ride along and find the men hunting Moss, dead, as well as the scene of the massacre. They examine the scene, dismiss all as Mexican drug runners, discuss the mysterious bullet wound of the man killed by plunger.
• Chigurh pulls into Desert Aire before noon, questions woman at the office, makes calls from a cafe.
• Chigurh questions people at café about Llewelyn.
• Buss drops Moss off in Del Rio in the afternoon. Takes cab to the Trail Motel. Hides money in airduct of his room. Eats out. Takes cab back to motel but sleeps at Ramada Inn instead. In the morning, goes to sporting goods store. Back in his room, prepares tools & weapons. Buys a bag, goes for a walk.

Answer 31

Chapter III

Question 32

Moss and his wife get off a bus at Fort Stockton before nine in the morning. They split up, he holds on to the money.
- Bell’s supper interrupted by a call about a car fire. Bell takes his wife with him. A dead man from Dallas.
- At the office in the morning, Bell makes plan for afternoon ride.

Answer 32

Chapter III

Question 33

Sheriff Bell talks progress and technology, evokes death row again. Compares a sheriff’s authority to God’s.

Answer 33

Chapter III

Question 34

Sheriff Bell remembers someone trying to kill him and escaping death once on the road.

Answer 34

Chapter II

Question 35

• At work, Bell answers a phone call about a cat, then a serious radio call.
• Bell, Wendell and Torbert find Bill Wyrick’s body in the trunk of
  his car. Bell finds a dead hawk in the road. Arrives at sheriff’s office in Sonora. Meets with Lamar, who wants to quit over the death of the young deputy.

Answer 35

Chapter II

Question 36

• Bus drops Moss at Desert Aires around 1.20. a.m. Asks Carla Jean to leave for Odessa.
• Chigurh pulls into gas station in Sheffield before dark. Challenges owner to a coin toss.
• Chigurh examines Moss’s truck with two men, then kills them.

Answer 36

Chapter II