ok so, i mean, we can't end it on that note. there is redemption, after all, but our underground man hasn't been delivered yet.

so he wakes up in a field, and he says "i have faith, the faith that conquers all understanding." he's reached the end of his string, and his tumultuous affair with discord comes to an end. Or rather, the cancer recedes, allowing him to exist, to live his life, though, ironically, both it and him live to fight another day, each demanding their respective partials from the whole of his existence.