Max's body was taken for an exam at the hospital. Casey pulled over a police officer who was looking into the murders. Everyone was taken to the police station. The detective in charge of this whole case was going to try and help them out.

"Ok." He said to them. "Now here are the victims." He opened the cap of a marker for the white board.

Samuel Richards

Emily Davis

Tinker Tomlin

Maxwell Miller

"Our next step is to find the connection and try to find the next target. Then suspects after that." He told them.

"S.R. E.D. T.T. M.M." Casey muttered under her breath. She HAD to know. "6, 4, 4, 4." She said again. "8, 6, 8, 9." She said.

"I can't fin anything." Derek said bluntly. He didn't feel like putting in the effort.

"Sam was Derek's friend. Derek dated Emily. Casey was friends with Tinker. She went out with Max." Edwin pointed out.

"So a friend, girlfriend, friend, boyfriend pattern?" The officer asked.

"12, 10, 10, 13." Casey kept speaking to herself.

"But Sam went out with Casey too." Lizzie pointed out. "And Tinker always had a huge crush on her." She added.

"That would make sense. Boyfriend, friend, friend, boyfriend." He explained.

"It's all about me." Casey stuttered. She overheard all of what they were saying. "So a friends would be next, probably a female." She thought out loud.

"Well who would that be?" Edwin asked.

Derek took his phone out of his pocket. He started to dial Sally's number.

"Sally or Kendra probably, because it might still need to relate back to Derek too. So one of them, but Kendra's gone with her family on vacation to New York for the rest of the week." Casey explained.

"Hey Sals." Derek spoke to his phone. "Where are you right now?" He waited for a response.

"Derek I'm on my house phone with some salesman, he has a really deep voice." Sally told him. "Can you hold on I'm trying to turn him down but he just won't quit." She sounded friendly.

"We gotta go." He ran to his car as some officers got the rest of the family to police cars. Derek was about two miles in front of the other cars heading towards Sally's house.

"Derek he won't hang up." She said frightened.

"I'm coming Sally don't worry." He reassured her.

He pulled into the driveway and heard a scream from her house. It was definitely her. Derek ran through the open door. "Sally?" He yelled throughout the house.

"DEREK!" She screamed for him. He ran up the stairs. He went through all the bedrooms and there was nobody. "Help me Derek!" She screamed.

"I'm coming." He jumped to climb to the attic. The guy must have gotten rid of the ladder. He had some trouble but pulled his way up. He saw the killer holding Sally with a knife to her neck.

"Well Derek you finally got me." He said to Derek.

"Ralph?" Derek asked.

"Yes. I murdered Sam and Emily and now Sally." Ralph said holding the knife dangerously close to Sally.

"But what about Tinker and Max?" Derek asked.

"That was actually my working." Said Noel from behind an old couch.

"Noel?" Derek asked.

"That's right." Noel said. "You see-"

He was interrupted by Casey trying to pull herself up to the attic. "Ralph? Noel? What are you guys doing here?" She asked everyone in the room. "It was you two! This whole time?" She asked.

Noel came and wrapped his arms around Casey with a gun in his hands. "Derek you don't step anywhere or I'll shoot and he'll slice." Noel warned.

"Now let's be rational men here guys." Derek said. His current love and his past love's lives were dangling on a thread. He had to save them. "Why did you guys do this in the first place?"

"Simple." Ralph said. "I hate the fact that you're the one that became cool. I had to sit in the shadows; Amanda's had a crush on you the whole time. It's the only reason she went out with me. I was always in the shadows. That's why I dropped from a B average to a C- average. I decided that it wasn't worth trying if I could never live up to you. It was always you." He explained.

"But why is Noel helping you?" Derek asked. He had noticed some of what Ralph was saying but never really drew attention to it. "What's his motive?" He turned to Noel.

"Well I was after Casey. She never even gave me a chance. She fell for Max. He was always up to bad intentions, everybody saw that he was manipulating her. And then when she finally dumped him I thought I had a chance. But then she wasn't even close to interested in me. I never even got a chance to show her how perfect we would be together." Noel told Casey and Derek.

"So now you both will pay." Ralph said. He started to press the knife into Sally's skin.

Suddenly the officer jumped up into the attic. "Freeze!" He shouted. "Hands in the air where I can see them." He instructed. "Now!" He demanded. They both put their hands in the air.

Both girls ran over towards Derek. He and Sally hugged and shared a kiss. "Now drop your weapons! Put them on the ground!" The detective ordered. Ralph and Noel reluctantly placed their weapons on the old wood floor.

Two more police officers got up to the attic and checked the boys for weapons. Then they were placed up against the wall and read their Miranda Rights. They both left in handcuffs riding in the back of police cars.

Sally met Derek down the isle in a small church 2 weeks later after the rest of his family came home. Casey and Lizzie were at her side as the bridesmaids. Casey was the maid of honor. Edwin was with Derek as best man. Marti was the flower girl.

Sally's parents and 3 brothers were sitting in the front row. George and Nora joined them. In the second row were Derek's mom and a few Sally's cousins. Derek's two cousins were also sitting there.

The reverend opened his book and began to recite. "We are gathered here today to join the two in holy matrimony." Sally's dress had a small blue ribbon around the waist to match her hair. It had a puffy skirt and thick straps.

Something blue: her ribbons

Something old: a charm bracelet Derek got her for her birthday 2 years ago

Something borrowed: the barrette that her mom wore to her wedding

Something new: the shoes she got 2 days before the rehearsal dinner.

Derek slipped he ring on hr finger and said the two words "I do." Sally felt tears build in her eyes but didn't want to ruin all the work that went into her makeup. They held eachothers hands with a force they didn't recognize.

"You may now kiss the bride." The reverend said while closing his book. Derek pulled Sally towards him and they kissed.

The reception at Smelly Nellie's was in full swing. All of the parents were getting along well. Most of the kids were hanging out together. Casey was having a nice time with one of Sally's cousin's friends that had just started working at the restaurant.

"Exactly what I was thinking when I read that dialogue. It was so obvious that she was working undercover with him." She said. They were talking about a book she had read right before all the murders happened.

Sally stood on top of a table as all the girls gathered around. She threw the bouquet into the audience. It was caught by one of Derek's cousins who was a few years older than him.

The first dance was played from a D-Rock CD. It made him feel very sad that Sam and Ralph weren't here to enjoy this, but he knew Sam was around spiritually. After that the rest of the songs were played from mixes of CD's Derek and Sally came up with.

Casey realized that she knew her chosen career. She enjoyed planning this wedding and helping Sally through the emotional troubles and doubts along the way. She was going to be a wedding planner after she got out of college.

Soon Sally and Derek left in his car to their hotel suite.

Ralph was released from prison after 4 years for good behavior. But he was under parole for the next 16 months and had to stay at least 100 feet from Derek and/or Casey for the next 10 years.

Noel was released after 5 years without any good behavior. He was put under parole for the next 18 months and had to stay at least 100 feet from Derek. He had to stay 150 feet from Casey because he became obsessed with her and kept threatening to keep killing to get to her.

By the time they were both released Derek and Sally had moved into a small town house in Toronto. They were both finished with college and Sally was 2 months pregnant.

Casey was out of college and the manager of her own wedding planning business. "McDonald Weddings, Real Happily Ever After" was her current slogan. She planned her dads seconds marriage and was engaged to the boy she met at the wedding reception of Derek and Sally's.

Lizzie and Edwin went out in secret for 2 years but broke up and stayed close to eachother. They were about to go into college and went to different parts in Canada. Lizzie was going to major in animal science. Edwin went to a business college for 2 years and then went to real college to get a masters degree in small business.

Edwin interned at Casey's wedding business during his 2 years at business school. After he finished college he and Lizzie went out publicly for a few months before Lizzie died in a car crash.

Marti was going into 8th grade and was never told all of what happened when she was on vacant with her family for that week. She was helping George and Nora by doing most of the house chores after George got layed off at work.

He was waiting for calls from several small firms in the area after recent interviews. One called back and gave him a job as a filer in the filing room. He got a smaller pay than he used to so they had to cut back.

Nora did have a baby during Casey and Derek's first year in college who was about 4. Marti would baby-sit her all the time. The baby's name was Emily in memory of how Emily died during the murders.

Ralph was taken back to jail for a month 2 years after he was released for a series of burglaries. He still holds a grudge with Derek. They haven't spoken since he was arrested.