With an escapee from a mental hospital who's known to be on the loose and a killer who plays with his victims before killing them. I don't go hunt this person but I do make sure that I won't have a higher chance of dying. My chance of dying right now is about 80% not hunting him raises it to 83%. This does not mean that I can't die from him it just means I raise my probability of surviving. Next, I check for weapons or something I can use against this psychopath, I have a baseball bat and a .44 magnum thats full (6 bullets) and 2 extras. This raises my probability of living to at least a 91%. Now making sure that I am able to contact any police force when in trouble. a 95% chance of living.
Tom calls Nick Shakespeare referring to the time they spent in college together at Yale when Nick wanted to become an author like Shakespeare. Nick feels that he has moved on from that dream.
""To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, / And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core" best captures the bountiful nature of the season since it's the most vivid.