[[File:Echo River 3.png|thumb|right|''Junebug missed an appointment, but didn't seem perturbed.'']]
Will narrates the scene:
:''I should tell you about Patch. He's the bartender, general manager, "creative director" […] A lot of folks assume he owns it, but that is not the case. The Rum Colony is owned by a dead man named Vernon. Technically, it would be owned by the [[Consolidated Power Company|power company]] […] but a clause in that arrangement requires them to keep their hands off the day-to-day — and most the profits — so long as Vernon walks this earth. The upshot of all this is that nobody came forth to identify the body ...''
Cate, Will, and Clara {{anchor|A phone|stop at a telephone booth}} or the dogs {{anchor|The Mucky Mammoth 4|lounge below deck}}.