3. September 10, 2015

Summary

• Cary Dressler is a carefree young man spending a solitary evening getting high and watching a movie at Drive-In Rock.
• Drive-In Rock is a hangout spot in Deerfield Park near the Thickets and is often crowded on weekends but Cary is there alone on a Thursday night.
• The Magic City drive-in theatre is struggling to compete with modern cineplexes but provides Cary with a place to watch movies and smoke weed in peace.
• Cary has finished a long shift at Strike Em Out Lanes and is unwinding by watching "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and smoking marijuana.
• Carrie plans to smoke a bit more, enjoy a Kit Kat bar, and then ride his moped carefully home.
• Despite getting lost in the movie, Cary suddenly hears a voice nearby and investigates, curious but wary it might be his imagination.
• He discovers a woman in a wheelchair next to a van with a dead battery on Red Bank Avenue, with a man who is supposedly her husband.
• The two seem to be projecting their voices theatrically, hinting at the possibility of a setup but Cary doesn’t realize this until later.
• Feeling obligated to help, Cary makes his way down to them, offering assistance after the man indicates he needs help pushing the wheelchair back into the van.
• Cary, still high, does not notice anything amiss and doesn’t feel the needle as it is inserted into his neck while he is pushing the wheelchair.