If by "sweet old couple", you mean racist prick and his dying wife. I understand the feeling of kind of wanting a third choice a couple times, like there instead of one fucked up choice or the other, or having the stoner yell for help instead of drive off or die...but I had immensely little sympathy for the guy who seemed less concerned that his wife was bleeding out than with being potentially robbed by a black kid and a white guy who should know better than to consort with such people. While it wasn't the ideal outcome, to me, her offscreen death was a mercy kill; his I wasn't too broken up about.