Reading Summary 5

Carl was in position to shoot the president. He had climbed through a manhole into a green garbage bin. He cut a hole for his gun with a torch and then plugged it back. When the time came to shoot he was lining up the shot when he saw a man behind the president and he knew this man. Then a voice started telling him not to shoot the father.



Kelly is a block and a half from the garbage bin that Carl was in. Her binoculars are on the president waiting to see him fall but hes not. Shes wondering what Carl is waiting for. Then She heard a muffled explosion and saw the president grab his chest then fall.



Carl had just shot the President and was now running in the sewer to the next manhole he would climb out of. He wasn't going straight to the hotel like he was supposed to he was going to find out who that old man behind the president was. He found the hospital that the president would be taken to and waited. When he saw the old man he just stood there and stared at him trying to figure out how he knew him. Then the old man noticed him and walked over to him and started asking him questions an told him his name was David Abraham. David told him he would send his son to talk to him if he would tell him where. Carl turned around and dropped a matchbook from his hotel.Carl walked into his hotel room and Kelly ran to him and hugged an kissed him saying he did a good job. Then he told her that he went to the hospital and talked to David and that he was sending his son to meet them. Kelly wasn't happy when he told her this she didn't understand why he did this or why he thought they needed the son. Carl didn't think the president was dead so he could use the son for that.


David was walking through the hospital trying to find someone who knew about the Presidents condition. He found the radiologist and asked him if there were any anomalies. The radiologist said no anomalies but it is very unusual. He told him the bullet entered between two ribs and missed the heart and lungs by a hair and exited between the 5th and 6th vertebrae. The radiologist called it a miracle but not an anomaly. then david left.

Carl and kelly were waiting for David's son to enter the hotel room while they heard on the news that the president had survived the attempt on his life. A couple mins later the son walked in and they hurried to the hotel he was at. When they got their he came in behind them. The boy looked like a little kid but he seemed older than he looked. The boy said his name was samuel and that they were friends when they were younger. Samuel told Carl his real name was Johnny Drake and that he was from Paradise, Colorado and that his mothers name is Sally. Kelly was trying to convice Carl that he was lying and that Kalman put him up to this but Carl wasnt sure who to believe.Before Samuel left he said go to Paradise and go find the truth.
Kelly tells Carl that his name really is Johnny Drake and that she has been lying to him since the start. Then they decide that they will go to Paradise but first they have to find a doctor to remove the implant from his brain so they left the hotel and went to a doctor outside the city.

Englishmen was on the way to take care of Carls mess but he was supposed to kill Carl first then kill the president. He knew they were on the way to the doctor so thats where he was going. When he got there he asked for the implant and the doctor tried to be sneaky and pull a gun but Englishmen was faster and shot the doctor and took the implant. He then headed toward Paradise, Colorado where Johnny was going.