GrimR - Part 5
by Laird Long
Did you get away, Mr. Danton!!??
Yeah, I got away – without being shot.
Maybe Mr. Slezak just thought you were a burglar breaking into his house?
I’m doubling back...
To Slezak’s house - gunning for GrimR!
Lyn?
fifteen minutes later
Where are you now, Mr. Danton!? What’s happening!?
I’m in pursuit of Slezak and Denny, in my car!
Be careful!!
Yeah.
You said Slezak pulled up to his house in a ‘car’, didn’t you, Lyn?
Yes...
He and Denny are in a van.
What?
Well...they must have two vehicles, then.
A car and also a van to transport Denny.
I’ve had experience with double-agents in my line of work before.
I don’t know what you mean, Mr. Danton!?
Are you the sick, twisted psycho who’s been encouraging your classmates to kill themselves!?
Have you been playing me all along!?
ARE YOU GRIMR!?
ARE YOU!?
Where’s your daughter right now, Lorraine!?
You again!!
I told you to stop!
I don’t have time to argue!
I’m in a high-speed chase with Slezak and his son, Denny – five miles outside the city limits on Highway 10!
We’re traveling at close to 90 miles/hour!
It’s dangerous!
What does anything of this have to do with Lyn!?
I need to know if you think she’s capable of murder!?
What!!??
How dare you
ANSWER MY QUESTION!
LIVES ARE AT STAKE! RIGHT NOW!
No!!
I mean, Lyn wouldn’t hurt anyone!!
She tried to hurt herself!
She jumped off the Ecclesiastical Tower at midnight for Christ's sake!!
Just to make sure that there was nobody on the sidewalk or in the street who would get hurt by...her falling body.
Where is she now!?
She’s right here in the house with - oh no.
She’s not here!!
Our car is gone!!
Where is Lyn!!??
Shit! I’m losing Slezak!
I can’t keep up! My car is too damaged from crashing into the school gym.
JESUS CHRIST!
What!!??
Lyn!
She just drove across the highway from a side road and forced Slezak’s van off the highway...
sent it flying into the ditch! The van rolled over!
Dear God!!
Lyn, where the hell are you going!?
Denny’s getting away in his wheelchair out of the back of the van, Mr. Danton!
I’ll catch him in my car while you check on Mr. Slezak!
But don’t hurt him!
Anymore than he is already hurt...
Ok. But watch yourself!
Denny might have a gun!
I’ve cornered Denny, Mr. Danton!
He zipped down this dirt road through the woods and it ended at a lake!
I’ve got him boxed in with my car!
He’s at the end of a small boat dock!
What about Mr. Slezak? Is he...
Come back here, Lyn.
To the highway. To the crash scene.
But what about -
I’ll take care of Denny now.
You didn’t hurt Mr. Slezak?
You said you knew first aid, didn’t you?
Yes!
Slezak needs your help, Lyn.
He’s not in very good shape.
And I didn’t make it any better.
OMG!!!
Mr. Slezak is DEAD!!
Yeah.
Did you kill him, Mr. Danton?
No. He was mortally wounded in the collision.
Then why did you tell me to come back and help him!?
Slezak made a ‘deathbed confession’ about GrimR.
What did he say?
His son, Denny, is GrimR.
Denny!!??
Yeah.
Slezak had no reason to lie. He knew he was dying.
Denny was ridiculed and humiliated by the girls when he went to Munroe High...
because of his acne and stammer...his physical clumsiness.
He tried to kill himself and was left paralyzed from the waist down and unable to speak after he shot himself.
With even deeper psychological wounds that festered until he vented his rage on the girls going to Munroe now.
He created the ‘suicide society’ to get his revenge.
And have some ‘fun’.
Oh my god. That's insane.
He needs help, Mr. Danton!
Slezak tried to help him, at first...using his nursing training.
Then he covered up for Denny, protected him.
Even though Denny hated his father for keeping him alive after he shot himself...
almost as much as he hated the girls he urged to kill themselves.
So – that’s why you wanted me away from Denny!!
Please don’t kill him, Mr. Danton!!
I’ve killed in my line of work before, Lyn.
Disgusting psycho pricks as evil as Denny!
But Denny’s sick! He’s disabled! He’s not responsible for -
HE’S RESPONSIBLE FOR MY DAUGHTER’S MURDER!
Murder!!??
I just heard from the hospital.
Sadie died.
And my wife tried to take her own life when she heard the news.
Please, Mr. Danton!! Don’t murder Denny!! Let the authorities -
That bastard will only get a couple of years in prison – if that – for everything he’s done!
All the lives he’s destroyed!
And let me tell you something, Lyn...
There’s no higher authority on earth than a father looking out for his little girl!
I chose life, Mr. Danton!! Please do the same!!
For my sake!?
And yours!
MR. DANTON!!
Yeah.
I took pity on Denny.
Even though he took no pity on those vulnerable young women he killed.
Thank God!!
Thank you, Mr. -
I knocked him out first...
then I strapped him tight in his wheelchair.
What?
He didn’t feel a thing...
when he rolled off the dock and into the water.
Oh, Mr. Danton!!!
I gave him the ‘assisted’ suicide he always wanted.
REST IN HELL, GRIMR!
YOU SICK PRICK!!!
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