How It All Goes Down
- In the morning, they set off to find Sandra.
- They go talk to Mrs. Pamela Fitzgerald, whose original testimony first reminded Rob of Sandra's existence.
- She makes Rob and Cassie choke down an obscene quantity of homemade scones before telling them that Sandra still lives in the neighborhood.
- They go to visit her. Well, Cassie goes—once again, Rob waits in the car. Why is he on this case again?
- Sandra says that she used to go out with Cathal Mills, who was friends with Jonathan Devlin and Shane Waters.
- Cathal would share Sandra with Jonathan sometimes, and Shane got jealous. But she didn't want to sleep with Shane.
- So one day, Jonathan and Cathal held Sandra down while Shane raped her.
- This is terrible, but something weird then happened: Sandra swears she heard "an enormous bird flapping its wings" (12.70), as well as a voice in the woods. It smelled, too.
- Rob has to wonder if there was a wild animal there, perhaps one that left four slashes in his t-shirt.
- They decide to investigate all three boys further.