He agrees to allow Jack to represent him (The book, it turns out, is only five pages long and appears, Aaron tells his boss, to be written directly to Jack; the
weird thing is that at no time does Jack even bother to read the book), and on his
way out, Jack cuts himself on a tree — the same tree that eventually appears
in his backyard and counts down the number of words he's allowed to say before he will, apparently,
die.