At the beginning of the story, Walker approaches a transit bus that had broken down on the Interstate. He offers help to the bus driver who he then violently strangles with a dead snake. Walker shoots and kills a passenger and then ties up another passenger to a tree with barbed wire, leaving her to die. When Stacia, the protagonist of the story who had left the bus of her own accord before either Walker or Wheeler arrived, gets into the picture, both of the killers become intrigued with killing her. En route to the motel where she ends up, Walker hitches a ride with a punk and his girlfriend, both of whom he later murders.