Chapter summary
Chapter 5
After the attack, Jet confronts her mother and father in the kitchen while they eat a sandwich. She questions the motive, noting nothing was stolen and hypothesizing the assailant brought a weapon, implying a known perpetrator. The chief of police, Chief Lou Jankowski, and Detective George Ecker arrive with Sergeant Jack Finney. Jet interrogates the detectives, demanding the Apple Watch. Ecker retrieves the watch from his trunk, and Jet enters the passcode 0709. She examines the watch’s heart‑rate data, identifying a spike to 158 bpm at 10:46 pm followed by a rapid drop, confirming the time of the assault. She accesses her messages, noting only two texts after the attack: a mother’s “We will be back later now…” at 10:48 pm and an ex‑boyfriend JJ’s single‑word “Sorry” at 10:58 pm. Jet asks the detectives to read the watch, and they discuss “opportunistic murder,” concluding the killer likely brought the weapon and knew her. Using the Find My Phone app, Jet locates her iPhone’s last connection at 10:56 pm on River Street near North Street, close to the Elm Street Bridge, indicating the phone was turned off there. The detectives plan to canvass houses on River Street. Jet then notes the crime‑scene cleaners finishing, retrieves her watch and notebook, and writes key timestamps (10:46 attack, 10:56 phone off, 10:58 text). She encounters Reggie the dog and her friend Billy Finney, who comforts her. The chapter ends with Jet confronting the possibility that the killer is someone she knows, while the police prepare to investigate the River Street location.