Lennie is thrilled to see George and begs him to give him hell, so that things can get back to normal.
George is strangely quiet even when Lennie tells him that he has done yet another bad thing.
When George refuses to give him hell, Lennie asks George to tell him the dream-farm story again
George takes out Carlson's Luger and unsnaps the safety. He can hear Curley and the other men getting closer … closer … closer …
As George tells the story, Lennie adds his usual details about tending rabbits and living off the fat of the land. George tells Lennie to look across the river while he narrates, like a kid saying, "You forgot the part when the alien space monsters come!