After confronting Leigh Anne about her motives for influencing him, Michael goes to find his birth mother in his old neighborhood. A number of young men who know Michael welcome him back to the housing project and offer him beer. When the gang leader makes sexually suggestive comments regarding Leigh Anne and Collins, Michael assaults the boys and leaves. After thinking and questioning Leigh Anne on the matter, Michael realizes that the Tuohys are now his family, and tells the investigator in another interview that attending his family's school is the reason he has chosen Ole Miss.