Chapter 26
The single scream, a child’s scream, echoed through the hall joining the Cineplex lobby to theatre #2. There was a second of stunned silence. Everything stopped. Pale faces surrounded him. Then more screams, the screams of adults and children mingled.
Gordon pushed his way back through the disorganized line and ran.
It’s not dark yet, he thought furiously. Then on the heels of that, It is in there.
“Everybody down!” The voice of a lone adult sounded out. Gordon thought it might be Mr. Plainclothes but wasn’t sure. Then a gunshot, followed by two more, and a scream of pain.
When Gordon pushed through the swinging door into the theatre, shoving past an exodus of screaming children and their parents, he saw Mr. Plainclothes hanging limp from the outstretched arm of the
