Summary

Initiation: 1978 -

Eighteen-year-old Dan heads across the border at the end of June with an unknown bald man. They drive to a clearing amid elm trees where a dark Land Rover is parked with a thin man named Dawson McCartland inside. The bald man, identified as Mick, explains Dan has been recommended by a man named Paddy Magee, whom they refer to as “Mad Dog.” Dan reveals he got to know Paddy through collecting bullets as a job along with an old friend named Cal Doherty. While Dawson and Mick talk, Dan plays with Dawson’s dogs. Dawson is glad to see Dan get along with the dogs. He asks Dan about his work experience, and if Dan knows how to use guns (he does not). Dawson then demands Dan shoot one of the dogs, saying they are a problem for...