Final Girls: A Novel

Two detectives, Cole and Freemont, claim that Quincy’s official statement is inconsistent with the facts of the case. Quincy can only recall flashes of memory before giving up. Freemont antagonizes her, so Quincy redirects them to Coop. Coop was asked to investigate the area near Blackthorn Psychiatric Hospital after a patient was reported missing. He found Quincy as she was running out of the woods. Soon after, the killer emerged, whom Coop shot down. Freemont cannot understand why Quincy survived. He thinks Quincy had something to do with the killings.

At the station, Detective Hernandez asks Quincy about the purse, which the police traced to Sam through labels in the paperbacks. Quincy delivers the alibi that she and Sam had lost the purse while drunkenly walking through the park. The purse was intended as a decoy to protect their real valuables from robbers. Sam is waiting outside the station, so Hernandez asks her to come in as well.

Hernandez explains that an unhoused man named Rocky Ruiz was nearly beaten to death. Asked about her relationship with Sam, Quincy describes Sam as a close friend who understands her experience. Hernandez brings up Sam’s arrest record, which includes a recent speeding ticket in Indiana, Lisa’s home state.