On January 5, 1994 - against McGarr's wishes - Hicks did the eight o'clock show at Caroline's Comedy Club in New York. In her attempt to prevent Hicks from doing the gig, McGarr rang Donovan. "Colleen, Bill is ready to die. He just won't lie down," Donovan told her. She hung up on him. Hicks was about 30 minutes into his set when he looked up over the microphone and scanned the crowd. "Colleen, are you out there?" he said.
From the back of the room, McGarr called out, "Bill, I'm right here."
"I can't do this any more," he said.
McGarr rushed to the side of the stage. Hicks glanced over at her, paused, then put the mic back in its stand and stepped into the wings. It was his last performance.
On January 26, McGarr put Hicks on a plane to Little Rock. "Bill always wanted to die with his parents at their house in Little Rock," she says. "He wanted the circle complete - that was very important to him. Because he had been so estranged, he wanted everything back."
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