Don't Let Him In

Paddy Swann was the most uncomplicated human being in the world, and then, two weeks ago, a very complicated person used Paddy Swann as a character in his own very complicated internal story and pushed him under a train. It’s as if, she suddenly realizes with a shot of dark dread, she’s obsessed with him. She searches Al’s face for some evidence of his knowledge of her act of disloyalty, some darkness, some sense that he is biding his time and waiting to tell her that he knows that she’s been spying on him, that she has broken his trust in the most heinous way. Someone has called the emergency services and an ambulance arrives just as the boys finally pull themselves from the sea, and then the police arrive, followed by sea rescue and a police helicopter.