Tony and Julia try to expose Gerard to the Fujisaki Corporation

Tony and Julia’s attempt to expose Gerard to the Fujisaki Corporation is a thwarted disclosure whose stakes become clear only after Tony is dead. The plan depended on a meeting, evidence Tony was supposed to bring, and a chance to tell Fujisaki what Gerard had done. Instead, the events in Maine leave Lionel piecing together the attempt from a hired boat, a giant destroying papers, and Julia’s later account of why she and Tony had come there.

The Plan and Its Stakes

Julia explains the plan during her confrontation with Lionel in Maine. She had heard that Fujisaki was flying there that day, and she and Tony intended to tell the company about Gerard. Tony, she says, was going to bring proof. The account establishes both a purpose and a deadline: this was not a vague intention to expose Gerard eventually, but a disclosure tied to Fujisaki’s imminent arrival. The nature of the proof is not specified, and the available account does not establish whether the company ever heard their allegations.

Julia also makes the attempt personal. She says that Lionel got in the way, then explains that Gerard wanted her back rather than dead. Her words place her own return to Gerard alongside the planned disclosure, but do not fully explain how Lionel disrupted the meeting or what Julia expected to happen afterward. The gaps matter: the plan is legible in outline, while its practical steps and the evidence Tony carried remain unknown.

The Journey to the Island

Before Julia supplies that explanation, Lionel follows the trail to a small parking area beyond the ferry landing. A man there tells him that two men rented a boat and captain about an hour earlier because they could not wait for the ferry to reach the island. They paid with twenty-dollar bills, a gesture the renter takes as an effort to impress him. Asked whether one of them was large, he identifies the biggest man he has ever seen. The exchange places Tony and the giant together on the route to the island, though it does not reveal what they said to the boatman or why they chose that crossing.

Lionel has already lost time by detouring through Boston. In the lot, he finds a red Contour locked, but a black Pontiac unlocked with its keys in the ignition. Tony’s gun, which he had pointed at Lionel the previous day, lies by the gas pedal. Lionel pushes it under the seat, hoping Tony might need it. The small act registers Lionel’s concern for Tony even as the cars and the abandoned-looking weapon make the danger of their pursuit concrete. Thinking of how the giant had forced Frank Minna to go wherever he wanted, Lionel feels sorry for Tony.

The Giant and the Papers

Later, after a second boat has returned to the dock, Lionel goes back toward the ferry landing and watches from the tree-shrouded parking lot. The giant stands between his car and Tony’s, studying papers in a manila folder. Lionel can only guess that they may have come from L&L’s files. The giant closes the folder, tears it into pieces, and throws them toward the rocks and water. Wind blows the scraps back across the gravel and into the trees rather than carrying them away. The attempt to scatter the papers is visible; their contents and their connection to Tony’s promised proof are not confirmed.

The giant then takes out a wallet, moves folding money into his own pocket, and throws the wallet over the rocks, perhaps into the water. Lionel cannot tell whether it reaches the sea, and the giant does not seem concerned. The contrast between the carefully watched papers and the discarded wallet gives the moment the shape of a cleanup, but the narrative does not identify the wallet’s owner or establish what the papers contain. When the giant sees Lionel, Lionel runs toward the hill and his car. The encounter confirms that he is being watched, while leaving the attempted disclosure’s evidence uncertain.

Failure and Aftermath

Julia’s account gives the pursuit its larger meaning: Gerard sent the giant after Tony, Lionel says, perhaps intending to deal with both Tony and Julia. Julia denies that Gerard wanted her killed, insisting instead that he wanted her back. Her distinction complicates Lionel’s interpretation without undoing the danger surrounding the attempted meeting. The disclosure has been interrupted, but the reasons for Gerard’s actions and the precise sequence of the interruption remain only partly known.

After learning that Tony is dead, Lionel calls Matricardi and tells him the news. He then insists that Frank and Tony are gone. That announcement turns the failed meeting into a consequence with a wider reach: Tony’s death removes the person expected to bring proof, while the planned disclosure to Fujisaki remains unverified. The episode’s evidence is deliberately incomplete. The reader sees the giant destroy papers but cannot equate them with Tony’s proof; hears Julia describe the plan but not its full logistics; and receives Lionel’s conclusion about Gerard’s pursuit without witnessing the killing here. What survives is not a completed exposure but a broken chain of intended testimony, missing evidence, and loss.