The search for the shooter intensifies as more and more information about his life and his reign of terror comes to light, and the team must find him before he claims another victim.
Tropes:
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: The girlfriend in the flashback of the first shooting turns out to be Diane.
- Driven to Suicide: Paul’s father, setting his son on his Start of Darkness.
- It's Personal: Diane’s boyfriend Barry was Paul’s first victim. They were on a date at the movies when Barry was shot right in front of her. Diane vows to find Paul, ask why he killed Barry, and then shoot him.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Paul and his wife were struggling to get pregnant, having been going to a fertility clinic for months, while his cousin Tom’s wife was pregnant with their second child.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
- Paul went on two:
- The first was killing everyone who wronged and dismissed his father — the secretary who failed to care for his money; the repossession guy who took back his car; and the bus driver who refused him a ride when he couldn’t afford fare.
- The second was killing everyone who wronged Paul personally — the employee whose irresponsibility got the store robbed; the investor who planned to shut it down; and the receptionist at the fertility clinic who couldn’t accept the empty credit card.
- It turns out Diane’s beef against Paul is personal — her boyfriend was Paul’s first victim.
- Paul went on two:
- Start of Darkness: Paul’s father lost everything — his savings, his car and his job, humiliated and scoffed at by people who “didn’t care”, and shot himself in the cabin, leading Paul to shoot everyone who had wronged his father, then everyone who wronged himself as an adult years later.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If only Barry hadn’t scoffed at Paul for caring so much about the movie, saying that everyone else was only here to get some from each other and that “no one cared” about the movie, maybe it wouldn’t have triggered Paul about his father’s suicide note saying that “no one cared” and going on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
