The Light of Creation

He says, um What I am What do you just tell me what you call me? It's gonna make this so much easier. You're the ones who've been collecting the light of creation and getting it away from me. He has a chessboard set out for Merle to play with john as he learns more about him. This is how Merle dies more than everybody else is because he keeps diving into this parlay in order to try and learn more. The game goes on until Johnny kills Merle at some point during one of his many cycles forward. And then they go back to where they were when they first met each other.