About that whole trying to shoot you thing...my bad.

Hot on the trail of Joey's would-be assassin (and now his, for that matter), Mark follows Elmer through the forest, noting that the hapless hunter is going around in circles. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm a little worried about Mark. Sure, he's all macho and saying that he wasn't hit, but come on, that first panel looks like he might have been shot in the shoulder, or maybe the back. Hey, we don't know what kind of gun Elmer has there. It could be full of shot. It could be full of killer bees. It could even be full of poison darts. The fact is, we just don't know. (Well, I guess we do, and unless Mark changed his shirt between panels one and three, I guess he wasn't shot after all. Maybe Andy set up a force field around him that diverted the bullets. That and the tree. That poor, poor tree.) Seeing the drums, Elmer finally realizes his mistake and figures out that for all of that walking he hasn't really left the scene of the crime. (This means, as he says, that he's been walking in a circle. That, or he's in some kind of looping universe and there's something that he's supposed to do there and won't be able to leave until he does it. This could take a while.) To further confuse things, Mark calls out to his attacker, offering to help him find his way out of the forest. I wouldn't be so quick to take the offer, Elmer. After all, he didn't say where he'd take you after that. Maybe he'll let you go, or maybe he'll take you to jail. You just can't be sure, and you can't very well come right out and ask Mark what his intentions are because he might be an upstanding citizen, but he's also the same man that you tried to shoot out of a tree, so he might be hankering for a little bit of revenge, Lost Forest style. (I have no idea what that means, but it might mean that you get punched or tackled.)