Molly
Babe, I can’t find my car.
Luke
What? Molls, it’s 1 am — where are you?
Molly
Alone in the parking garage—
Molly
It’s so creepy here at night.
Luke
I bet. I don’t like the idea of you being there by yourself…
Luke
Let’s get you home. Where’d you park your car?
Molly
In the same spot I use every day.
Molly
I wouldn’t have left it anywhere else.
Molly
Yeah, it’s nowhere in sight.
Molly
I always park on Level 2, but I’ve walked around that level like 5 times…
Luke
Have you gone up or down to another level yet?
Luke
Okay. Let me know when you find it.
Molly
Babe, can we keep texting…?
Molly
Then I won’t feel like I’m alone.
Molly
It’s just so dark and abandoned here…
Molly
And that’s what’s strange—
Molly
Even though there are only a few cars left, I can’t see mine anywhere.
Luke
It’s okay. You must’ve parked on a different level.
Molly
Yeah, but now I’ve walked all around the third level…
Molly
And I still can’t find it. I could’ve sworn I didn’t park too high up.
Luke
Do you want me to just come and get you?
Molly
There’s a homeless guy.
Luke
What? How do you know he’s homeless?
Molly
Idk, he just looks homeless.
Molly
He’s sitting around a corner. I didn’t see him at first—
Molly
And it scared me when I realized he was there.
Luke
You’re fine. Just give him some change.
Molly
Nah, I don’t believe in that.
Luke
Don’t believe in what?
Molly
Giving someone change when they beg.
Molly
If he wants a job, he can go get one—
Molly
Just like everybody else.
Molly
GAH, where is my car?!
Molly
Maybe someone stole it.
Luke
Molls, how would they steal it?
Molly
You’ve seen those movies, right?
Molly
Where they pluck out the wires, start the car, and drive off with it?
Luke
Oh, come on — that doesn’t happen in real life.
Molly
Luke, stop it. Could you try to be supportive right now?
Luke
Well, you’re kinda being an a-hole.
Molly
Wow, I really don’t need this right now…
Molly
I’ll look for the car myself.
Luke
Hope it doesn’t get too creepy in that parking lot at night.
Luke
Stop calling him that.
Molly
That’s what he is! It doesn’t matter—
Molly
I think he’s following me.
Molly
He’s walking kinda far behind me, but…he’s still following me.
Luke
He could be going anywhere, Molls—
Luke
It don’t necessarily have to do with you.
Molly
No. Something’s off.
Molly
You’re not here — you can’t see how close he’s getting to me.
Molly
What if he robs me?
Luke
You should’ve helped him.
Molly
Very funny. And besides — why would he follow me if he were trying to make me help him?
Molly
Ugh, it’s only making me more disgusted.
Luke
You’re very sympathetic, you know that?
Molly
Why are you being such a jerk right now anyway?
Molly
I’m really scared here all alone.
Molly
I thought you’d make me feel better.
Molly
WHERE IS MY DAMN CAR??
Molly
I’m walking to the fourth level now. I don’t like this…
Molly
I’m trapped in a parking garage with a homeless guy stalking me.
Luke
He’s still around? Are you sure he’s following you?
Molly
Well, I can’t see him, but can I hear his footsteps.
Molly
I can’t believe this is happening to me. He’s so creepy.
Molly
I swear he’s following me…
Luke
Are you sure you don’t want me to come get you?
Molly
Wait! I can see him again.
Molly
Every time I look back, he seems to have gotten closer.
Molly
Tattered clothes, long beard and fingernails — filth.
Molly
Luke. He just smiled at me.
Luke
What? Molls, go to a different level — hurry!
Luke
I’m getting in the car. Call me?
Molly
No…I don’t want him to know I’m scared.
Molly
He might become hostile.
Molly
OMG — Now he won’t stop staring and smiling.
Luke
He knows what you think of him…
Molly
Damn it, Luke! This isn’t a joke.
Molly
Wait — he just disappeared.
Molly
One moment he was there, still behind me—
Molly
And the next time I looked back, he was gone.
Luke
Did he duck into a door or something?
Molly
No, he couldn’t have—
Molly
We’re on one of the ramps between levels, so there’s no door around.
Luke
I’m on my way. I’ll keep checking in at traffic lights.
Luke
In the meantime…keep searching for your car.
Luke
That’s your only way out of this until I can get there.
Molly
I’m so freaked out right now — a chill just ran through my body.
Molly
I swear if I don’t find my car in the next five minutes…
Molly
Wait, I hear something.
Molly
Another car’s coming. It sounds like it’s above me.
Molly
But there’s still no sign of that homeless filth.
Molly
What? Like I said, I’m just being—
Molly
Wait. THAT’S MY CAR!!
Luke
What? What’s going on?
Molly
OMG. Someone definitely has my car — it just drove past me.
Molly
And screeching and stuff.
Molly
It’s turning around…
Molly
It’s coming back up the ramp!
Luke
Can you see who’s driving it?
Molly
The driver tried to RUN ME OVER!
Luke
What? Are you serious?
Molly
Luke, idk if I’m seeing things…
Molly
But I think that homeless guy was driving my car.
Molly
I got a brief glimpse inside, and the driver looks just like him.
Molly
Oh no…the car’s turning the corner again…
Molly
It’s heading right toward me…
Luke
What? Where’d he find it?
Molly
Idk Luke. And I can’t exactly ask him right now—
Molly
He’s trying to RUN ME OVER.
Molly
He barely missed me this time.
Molly
Okay…he stopped the car…
Molly
Oh god, Luke, he got out.
Molly
Weird — he kind of looks like you.
Luke
I told you that you should’ve helped him.
Molly
What? Babe, please don’t be cryptic right now—
Molly
There’s a very good chance I’m about to die.
Luke
You are about to die.
Luke
Because that “homeless guy” — that’s my brother Chris.
Molly
WHAT? He’s your brother?
Luke
Yeah. We’ve both been homeless at one point in our lives.
Molly
You’ve been homeless?
Molly
And you didn’t tell me?!
Luke
Of course that’s what you focus on—
Luke
You’re probably embarrassed to be dating someone who was homeless.
Luke
Well, don’t worry, Miss Prissy — I’m not really dating you.
Molly edges back from Luke’s brother Chris…
But he takes two steps toward her.
He continues tracking her as the texts from Luke roll in.
Luke
When I was homeless, I’d see you every day.
Luke
I guess my spot was on your path to work.
Luke
And not once — not ONE single time—
Luke
Did you give me anything when I was begging.
Luke
You’d peer down your nose at me, like I was the scum under your shoe.
Molly hears a rustling sound in front of her.
From the corner of her eye, she sees Chris take a gun out of his pocket.
Luke
So Chris and I devised a plan…
Luke
I gave him the spare keys to your car and told him where you always parked it.
Luke
He moved the car to the top level, so we could test you tonight—
Luke
We decided to give you one last chance to help a homeless man in need.
Luke
Yes. You failed that test.
Luke
Chris had his fun with you — pretending to run you down with the car.
Luke
But now it’s time to really make you pay.
Molly
I’m sorry — please don’t do this.
Luke
You did this to yourself, Molly.
Luke
Goodbye, Miss Prissy.
Molly looks up, pleading, from her phone.
Molly
Please, I’ll do anything!
Chris
See how hard it is to beg?
She can’t stop the tears that spill over her eyes.
Chris
Especially when no one will answer your pleas.
Chris raises the gun and there’s a deafening blow—
And Molly’s entire world goes black.
White, Caucasian woman, aged 26, found at South Street Parking Garage.
Cause of death — gunshot to the head.
9 MM pistol located near the victim’s body. Prints wiped clean.
Wallet and identification recovered from her person.
