Summary

In Section 1, as Brady sells ice cream he sometimes wonders how hard it would be to poison all the ice cream in his truck. He’s decided that it is not worth the effort since he wants to concentrate on Hodges.

In Section 2, Brady drives past Jerome’s house. The handsome black boy bothers Brady because he sometimes dates white girls. Brady suspects they have sex with Jerome willingly. Brady admits he has never had sex. Brady smiles as he serves Jerome and his little sister ice cream. It is the same smile he smiled during the Mercedes Massacre. He keeps a close eye on Jerome because the boy seems to be Hodges’ friend. He notes that Olivia did not have any friends, which made it easy for Brady to manipulate her.

In Section 3, Hodges finds himself parked in...