Summary:(Post-Chronicle) Karen's sister writes a letter to Ex-brother-in-law Richard after the Incident.
Dear Detmer,
I wish that this letter can give you the strength to move on after death of your wife,my sister Karen. But after seeing the footage of my nephew,Andrew suffering from the abuse from your hands,it changes my views of you as my brother in-law.
I don't know where to start but i think it started when when you and I respectively received news that Karen was diagnosed with Stage IV Cancer either before or after you were forced to retired due to an on the job injury. I thought that you able to move on by finding another job to support her and your son. But it was revealed to me that you,unable to find work to care for her, turned alcoholism which in turn cause you vent all your frustration out on Andrew. I was shocked and horrified of what you did to him. Because of this,it was one of the reasons Andrew couldn't find happiness or peace,apart from being a bullied outcast in school.
That change when Andrew,his cousin Matt Garetty,and Steve Montgomery found a strange underground rock that gave them the power of telekinesis the day after.
They started small by blocking baseballs to pulling harmless prank. One day,when they driving,Andrew pushes a rude motorist off the road and into a river. The guy survives critically,sure Matt insists that they restrict the use of their powers, particularly against living things.
When they discovered they can fly,I was shocked and happy for him flying. It's like he is free from . At Steve's encouragement,he enters in a school talent show, where is After the show, Andrew, Matt and Steve celebrate at a house party. After drinking with his classmate Monica, she and Andrew go upstairs to have sex, but he vomits on her, humiliating himself.
He becomes increasingly withdrawn and aggressive, culminating when you attacks him and Andrew uses his powers to overwhelm you. His outburst is so extreme that it inflicts psychically connected nosebleeds on Steve and Matt. While Matt ignores the nosebleed, Steve flies up to Andrew in the middle of a storm and tries to console him.
However, Andrew grows increasingly frustrated, and Steve is suddenly struck by a lightning bolt and killed. At Steve's funeral, Matt confronts Andrew about the suspicious circumstances of Steve's death. Andrew denies responsibility to Matt, but he privately begs for forgiveness at Steve's grave.
Andrew grows distant from Matt and again finds himself ostracized at school. After being bullied, he uses his powers to tear teeth out of a bully's mouth. He begins to identify himself as an apex predator, rationalizing that he should not feel guilt for using his powers to hurt those weaker than himself.
When my sister's condition deteriorates due to her medicine becoming expensive, Andrew uses his powers to steal money for her medicine. After mugging a local gang, he robs a gas station where he inadvertently causes an explosion that puts him in the hospital with significant burns, and under police investigation. At his bedside, you informs him that Karen has died, and you angrily blames him for her death. Just as you're about to strike him, Andrew awoken and the wall of his hospital room explodes.
Matt was at his brother's birthday party, experiences a nosebleed and senses Andrew is in trouble. He and his girlfriend, Casey, go to the hospital, where Andrew is floating outside. He saved you when Andrew attempts to kill you, Matt confronts him at the Space Needle and tries to reason with him, but Andrew grows hostile and irrational due to the strained relationship between them. Andrew attacks Matt and the pair fight across the city, crashing through buildings and hurling vehicles.
Enraged and fully insane, albeit heavily injured, Andrew uses his powers to destroy the buildings around him, threatening hundreds of lives. Unable to get through to Andrew and left with no other choice, He telekinetically impales Andrew with a spear from a nearby statue,possibly killing him. The police surrounded Matt, but he flies away to parts unknown.
I was in LA for business when I got the call from my husband and the FBI explains everything to me. I was heartbroken when Karen and Andrew died but super pissed at you for doing nothing but drinking your life to hell while your family falls apart. Part of me wished you were dropped to hell but common sense gotten you in jail where you belong. I wasn't surprised when you were convicted for child abuse and given a life sentence. Had you not chosen to become the drunkard you became and started looking for jobs that you was still able to perform in spite of injuries that previously forced you to retire as a firefighter, as well as never abusing Andrew in the first place, it's much more likely that you and your family's life would have eventually improved and you would never have lost your wife and son.
Whatever the case, you now has to live with the fact that you lost your wife and son. I hope in prison or your next life, you'll become a better person.
Goodbye, , and Good Riddance.