Scene switches from Ennis and Jack to a younger Ennis walking down a dirt trail with his older brother and his father.
Ennis: There was these two old guys who ranched together down home, Earl and Rich. They was the joke in town, even though they was pretty tough old birds. They found Earl dead in an irrigation ditch. They took a tire iron to him, spurred him up, drug him around by his dick till it pulled off...
young Ennis sees Earl's body and his eyes widen in shock