The First Time Jake Pulls a Trigger
Eight days into the worst thing that has ever happened to America, a seventeen-year-old finishes what his father started. Episode 3 drops tomorrow.
Three weeks ago, Jake Smith was a senior at Cherokee High School thinking about a gap year before college. He was hitting cages in the afternoons and shooting paper at the range with his dad on Saturdays the way other kids do bowling alleys.
Tomorrow morning, in Episode 3 of Survival Dispatch: Remnant, he becomes the first person in the Smith family to put a round through another human being.
He is seventeen years old when he does it.
He is steady when he does it.
And the boy who walks out of the kitchen after he does it is not the same boy who walked into it three minutes earlier.
THE KITCHEN WINDOW
It started the way most of the bad things in this story have started. With the dog.