The short story is about a man. In the beginning we don’t know his name and neither does he. He is sitting in the passenger’s side of a wrecked car that’s been tipped to the side. The man is bleeding from the head and as been unconscious. He doesn’t remember anything, which may be because of the knockout. The driver has been pulled out of his seat and is nowhere in sight. He gets attacked by what looks like two humans but soon finds out that they are more than that attacks him. After several shots on the body, the “thing” is still able to crawl against him. By a coincidence he shoots one in the head and it falls to the ground – dead as a stone.
The man is wearing a camouflage jacket, and in the radio of the car a voice is occasionally heard calling for units to come back. On the vehicle a big weapon is attached and is sprayed into the circular turret that provides an access from the rear of the vehicle to the gun. The man doesn’t now who or where he is but by the facts about the car and his jacket he’s probably a soldier in the middle of a war. Although his memory is lacking he is able to prepare the gun he finds in the car to shoot. In the short story he finds a gun in the car and without even thinking about it – almost by instinct he makes the gun ready for shooting. It is possible that he has forgotten his name and what he did before the accident but everything is not gone, he still have the instinct of a soldier. Not only that he know have to use a gun, but also the fact that he actually decides to go find a gun, when no threat is in sight. Beyond that his ability to prepare the gun, he also knows how to aim and shot which normal people only are able to do through a joystick with their eyes clued to the screen.
On his jacket he sees the name Jacobs, which is probably his last name. He likes the name Mark as well, so
