Gabriel
- Gabriel fills us in: Someone has found bones, and not just any bones—human ones. Now that they're found, he's certain that people will want to talk to him. Um, okay… Sounds like he's involved in someone's death now somehow.
- He's also a little scared. He knows that the bones being found means that Finnigan will be on the move.
- Gabriel remembers back to the first time he saw Finnigan. He was just nine or ten years old, playing with a toy car out by the fence.
- Finnigan had dark eyes and said to Gabriel, "hey, you're that boy" and something about knowing what he did.
- Gabriel was annoyed, but kept playing with his car; his aunt Sarah gave it to him as a present.
- Before long, Gabriel is happy to play with Finnigan, too. He asks Gabriel to guess what's in his hand, so Gabriel thinks about what it could possibly be, and arrives at the answer: money.
- Yep, that's it—and Finnigan stole it from "mother's purse." He's not worried she'll find out unless Gabriel tells her, though.
- After Gabriel promises he won't, Finnigan steals his toy car. "Hey, that's mine. Give it back," Gabriel says.
- Finnigan says Gabriel can have it back if he comes out to the yard and gets it, but Gabriel isn't allowed—unless it's Saturday.
- Too bad Finnigan doesn't know what day it is, but Gabriel fills him in: It's Thursday. So come back in a couple days and then they can play.
- They agree, and Finnigan asks Gabriel to hold on to his cash for him; Gabriel agrees, even though it might get him in trouble.
- Gabriel asks the boy his name, and he carves "FINIGN" upside-down and backwards in the fence.
- Just then, someone yells out "Anwell" and Gabriel admits that's his mom calling him. (We're not sure what's with the double name, but we'll soon find out.) His mom orders him to get in the house.
- Back in the present, Gabriel coughs up blood and Sarah helps him clean himself up. Gabriel knows he'll die soon, but he doesn't want to yet—he wants her to come visit first. Okay…
- He thinks back to his mom calling him in the house and discovering the coins immediately.
- When she asks him where he got the coins, he says he "can't say" and gets a spanking as a result.
- His mom is so ticked off that he stole from her, but she's even madder that he lied to her face about it. She won't raise a liar and a thief.