Jet attends the Woodstock Halloween Fair, clashes with ex‑boyfriend JJ Lim, deals with intense family drama involving brother Luke, sister‑in‑law Sophia and baby Cameron, meets local officials Gerry Clay, Sergeant Jack Finney and Chief Lou Jankowski, survives a drunken‑clown altercation, returns home, eats cookies, and is brutally killed in her own house, triggering an emergency 911 call.
Jet awakens in a hospital, learns she suffered multiple head blows causing a subdural hematoma, a rare clivus fracture with a bone fragment pressing on her basilar artery, and discovers she also has polycystic kidney disease that weakens her arterial walls; doctors warn an aneurysm will form and offer a high‑risk surgery with <10% survival chance.
Jet awakens in a hospital after being violently attacked. Doctors reveal a subdural hematoma, a rare clivus fracture with a bone fragment compressing her basilar artery, and polycystic kidney disease that weakens her vessels, warning of an imminent aneurysm and offering a high‑risk surgery with less than 10 % chance of survival. The police—Detective George Ecker, Sergeant Jack Finney, and Chief Lou Jankowski—interrogate her, learning that her iPhone 14 and Apple Watch are missing and extracting the watch passcode “0709.” Dr. Lee diagnoses Jet with anomic aphasia affecting word retrieval. Her mother Dianne Mason, father Luke, and brother (implied by “Scott”) pressure her to consent to the operation, but Jet rejects the immediate surgery, choosing to delay in order to have the promised seven days to live and solve her own murder.
Jet and the police inspect the house crime scene; spatter analysis shows three head blows—two while standing, one on the floor—indicating a tall, right‑handed attacker; the side/back door was likely left unlocked for entry; the attack occurred between 10:40 pm and 11:00 pm; Reggie the dog survived; Jet’s iPhone and watch are missing; the doorbell camera captured only the victim’s arrival, not the assailant; investigators note the weapon has not been recovered and the scene is cleared for cleaning.
Jet determines the attack occurred at 10:46 pm using her Apple Watch heart‑rate spike, discovers her iPhone was turned off at 10:56 pm on River Street near the Elm Street Bridge (less than five minutes from her house), and sees an apologetic text from ex‑boyfriend JJ at 10:58 pm. She gives detectives the watch passcode “0709,” confirms the murder was opportunistic and likely committed by someone she knows who brought the weapon, and the police move to canvass the River Street area.
Jet spends the night obsessively reviewing her Ring doorbell footage, watching multiple motion‑detector alerts (10:39 p.m., 11:05 p.m., 8:33 p.m., etc.) and noting that the killer never appears on camera. She records her observations in a notebook (crossed‑out app ideas, “Who murdered me?”), logs the timestamps, and replays videos of Billy’s frantic rescue attempt, the paramedics, and a bizarre Halloween‑fair clip featuring costumed teens. She investigates a “cookie mystery” involving Sophia’s deliveries, reconstructs the timeline of Sophia’s two trips to the house, and briefly searches brain‑aneurysm symptoms before deciding not to read further. The chapter adds concrete evidence that the murderer entered unseen, that Jet believes the assailant is someone she knows, and that she is actively using the Ring dashboard and her notebook to piece together the night’s events.
Jet rejects the family‑pressured emergency brain surgery, denounces her parents’ coercion, and storms out after her mother pushes funeral catalogs on her. She drives to Billy’s apartment, begs to stay, and Billy reluctantly agrees to let her crash there.
Jet discovers a fraudulent $30,000 loan taken out against her 1986 Ford F‑150, indicating identity theft that may be tied to her recent attack. She learns Billy keeps a spare key under the front‑door mat and obtains it, then decides to follow the River Street location where her phone was turned off, using the key to leave the house and pursue the new lead.
Jet receives a threatening loan‑demand letter revealing a recent $30,000 loan taken out in her name; detectives find a synthetic red wig hair at the crime scene, indicating the killer wore a red wig (potentially linking to ex‑boyfriend JJ); Jack Finney shows Jet the hair evidence; Ecker reports no eyewitnesses from River Street and a fruitless grid search; Jet’s mother files a missing‑person report; Jet warns LightFi about seizing her truck.
Jet and Billy examine the red wig hair recovered from the murder scene, connecting it to suspect JJ/Andrew Smith; they decide to obtain photographs from Owen Clay to verify the wig, Billy administers first‑aid for Jet’s leaking head wound, and they plan to report their findings to the police the following morning.