Vince throws a fragmentation grenade into the house at close range, giving Hunter only seconds to react. Hunter smashes through the damaged front door just as the grenade explodes, and the blast hurls him across the porch into the mud outside. Although the explosion and his earlier leg wound leave him dazed, bleeding, and barely able to stand, Hunter realizes he is still alive.

As Hunter regains his senses, Vince's two surviving gunmen aim carbines at him, but before they fire Vince attacks from behind with a guitar-string garrote. Too injured to overpower Vince cleanly, Hunter fights with desperate improvisation: he protects his throat with his hand, crushes Vince's groin, drives him off balance, and finally bites deep into Vince's cheek. That ugly tactic forces Vince to loosen the wire, allowing Hunter to break free and face him.

Once both men are upright again, their fight becomes a confrontation over motive as much as survival. Vince accuses Hunter of betraying him at the failed hostage exchange, but Hunter points out that Vince had always intended to murder everyone there. Vince then admits the truth: Jason Mercer was only a contract, and his real grievance is personal resentment because Walter valued Hunter over him and left Vince to be burned by Arrowsake.

While Vince's gunmen keep Hunter covered, Rink suddenly appears through the rain and kills both attackers, driven in part by Sue's murder. Hunter challenges Vince to finish matters directly, but Vince refuses a fair draw and instead pulls a second grenade, threatening to kill all of them if anyone shoots him. Recognizing the bluff cannot be allowed to continue, Hunter draws his SIG and shoots Vince between the eyes before Vince can throw the grenade. Vince collapses onto the explosive, and although Hunter and Rink dive for cover before it detonates, the blast finishes Vince and ends the siege.