This chapter's epigraph comes from the famous line, "It's a long way to get there, but it's close" . In other words, the epigraph is about as far from the truth as you can get. It's about as close as you're going to get to the truth. In this case, the truth is that Evans was shot in the back by a sniper. Evans is all, "damn it, I'm the only one who couldn't find dirt on you" , and he's the one who's responsible for the death of a guy who was innocently shot. Evans doesn't believe him, and thinks that Evans should be killed. He's not a threat to Evans's life, he says, and Evans should just be happy that Evans is dead. Evans thinks that if Evans were a threat