Bernard leaves to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, while Willy stays behind to borrow money from Charley. Charley offers Willy a job, but
Back at the restaurant, Stanley pulls Willy out of his painful memory. Willy decides to go to the hardware store to buy some seeds for planting.
Transitioning back from a memory to the present, Willy vehemently defends Biff for his spirit and personality, even though he's been caught
Willy and Linda discuss their sons, who are asleep upstairs. Willy criticizes Biff, who is home from working in Texas and who Linda says is "
Linda tells her sons that Willy has been taken off salary and put back on commission. She says Willy's company, and his sons, have used him. She
Still in the middle of the night, Biff, Happy, and Linda discuss Willy. Linda urges Biff to respect his father. She defends her husband when Biff
While playing cards with Charley, Willy mistakenly calls him Ben and ushers in a memory, in which Willy's dead brother Ben stops through
Charley, the Lomans' neighbor, comes over to check on Willy after hearing him yell. They play cards as Willy generally complains and Charley
Willy, finally believing that Biff likes him, decides to kill himself. Ben helps convince him that Biff will be "magnificent" when he
Willy visits his boss, Howard, who shows him a new voice recorder.