Shortly after the rumble, Dallas Winston and Ponyboy
Curtis head to the hospital to give Johnny the news of the greasers' victory. They find
Johnny in worse shape than ever, and after telling Pony to "stay gold," Johnny dies.
Since Johnny was Dally's favorite, he is particularly upset, and he takes off. Pony
returns home and warns his brothers that Dally's "gonna blow up. He couldn't take it."
Moments later, they get a call from Dally: He has robbed a grocery store, and "the cops
are after him. We gotta hide him. He'll be at the lot in a minute." The boys set out "on
a dead run," but before they can reach Dally, the police get to him first. When the cops
corner him, Dally raises his gun--in view of the boys who are coming to his rescue. Pony
remembers what Dally has told him:
I been carryin' a heater. It ain't
loaded, but it sure does help a
bluff.
But the
police don't know this, and they fire. "He was dead before he hit the ground. But I knew
that was what he wanted... and he always got what he
wanted."
Dally died by police fire: suicide by
cop.
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