- Hana showers in a spigot outside.
- Inside, the burned man flips through his book. There are pictures and drawings inside.
- They prompt a flashback:
- The burned man, who isn't burned in the flashback, is speaking in Arabic to a man in order to understand the lay of the land, and to sketch it in his notebook.
- In the desert, a yellow plane lands. It's piloted by Geoffrey Clifton with his wife, Katharine.
- Katharine is the sleeping woman from the plane's first scene—what happened to her after the plane was shot down?
- All these men seem to be part of what they call the "International Sand Club." Anakin Skywalker would hate that club.
- The men hang out in a tent and drink wine. Clifton introduces himself to the man who will later be called the English patient. We finally learn his name: Almásy.
- Count Almásy to be precise. He meets Katharine, who has read his writing before, and she admires his lack of adjectives.
- Out in the desert, Almásy complains to his buddy Madox about Clifton. He doesn't like him.
- Madox and Almásy board a plane and fly out over the landscape.