 Washington won't do the prisoner exchange. He has to bite the bullet. He says, if we do a prisoner exchange, a thousand for a thousand, the British are getting a thousand soldiers back trained. I'm getting a thousand farmers who are untrained in their corpses. So to end this war, we have to bite the bullet. Dring goes back on board the ghost ship. But happily, Dring becomes his own captain, lives a long life, escaped and wrote his story.