Burn

Jess drives after the fleeing boat, feeling completely devasted by the lives he took. He reminisces on his past, growing up in Putney, with his architect father and his math teacher mother. He tries to get Storey to promise not to shoot at the people on the boat they’re chasing, but Storey just asks him to gun the throttle.

Jess tries to radio the boat ahead of them to tell them that they only want explanations about what’s been happening. They receive a response telling them that “what is going on is that you are dead men,” followed by the radio powering off (140). Jess and Storey continue chasing the boat, and a quarter-mile from shore, they hear the sound of the choppers cresting over the trees.

Jess and Storey both dive into the water, narrowly avoiding the explosions of the helicopters firing on the boat. Surfacing, they try to swim away from the wreckage, hearing the popping noise of hunting rifles from the woods and the noise of bullets hitting the water around them. They crouch in the surf, figuring the people firing at them are from the boat, having docked it somewhere nearby along the shore.