"H-hey! I didn't have a choice. Do you know what that guy can do? He killed two of my friends in the yard for looking at him wrong!" the guy said.

Joe just stared the guy down.

"You better hope I don't see you again, pal. Or you won't have to worry about what Landon will do to you." Joe said.

"Come on, Sammy. Let's get back to New York. He could be after...anyone." Joe said, though a few particular faces came unbidden into his thoughts just then.

Roxanne. Sammy. Mom. Dad.

If anything happened to them, any of them, because of him...

Joe turned and left the room.