"Take me with you," says Milton.
"What? I... I can't do that."
"Please," says Milton. "Take me... home."
Two more soldiers appear at the far end of the hall.
"Hurry, let's go!" says Milton.
You jump up and pull yourself up to the roof, and then, almost in spite of yourself, you let down your arm to pull up Milton.
Milton grabs your arm, and as you pull him up, he takes out the two approaching guards.
You throw a cable around a pipe on the roof of the building next door and you and Milton escape into the city.
When you don't make it back to the rendezvous point by the designated time, the US military counts you as dead.
You and Milton sneak down to a port on the Athenian coast and stow-away on a cargo boat headed back to the United States. Then you hitch your way back to Sharon.
When you finally reach Poppy's house, you find that he, too, has taken you for dead, and is now renting out the basement out to Merv.
"Holy shit, Marty, you're alive!" says Merv as you enter the basement.
"Damn right," you say. "And I want the basement back."
"It's yours, dude. It's cool. Where the hell you been?"
"I had to find Milton," you tell him, "...and bring him back home."
Milton walks into the basement.
The three of you have a happy reunion, and life goes pretty much back to normal.
...Except now when BOOG gives you trouble, you know thirty-six different ways to bring him to the brink of death.
Even Pam doesn't
boot your sack quite as often as she used to.
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