Nigel flushes the urinal and walks over to the sink to wash his hands. He notices a small message in black ink on the side of his hand. "REMEMBER HOAGIE" Nigel stares at it for sometime, remembering. He starts washing his hands paying close attention to the writing, trying to scrub it off. His efforts are futile as nothing, not even his hardest scrubbing can even smudge the writing. He then notices similar ink farther up his wrist. He unbuttons his cuff and starts pulling up his sleeve. "THE FACTS:" He starts to pull his sleeve back even more but stops when another person enters the restroom. Nigel drys his hands and re-buttons his cuff.
Nigel walks out of the restroom and looks around the crowded restaurant, he thinks for some time. He realizes that he just cycled and takes out his polaroids. He starts looking through them when someone taps him on the shoulder. "Sir you left these at your table" A waiter hands him a brown envelop, with "To Nigel, from Natalie" written in bold on the outside, and a room key, marked 304. Nigel looks at his picture of his motel, The Overlook Inn, and reads the message underneath it "5687 N College Street"
Nigel looks at the waiter "Thanks. Uh... College Street?"
The waiter thinks for a moment then answers quickly "Sure thing, head east on 7th and then..."
Nigel interrupts "Hold on a sec let me get a piece of paper."
"Oh its not that hard sir"
"Trust me, let me get a piece of paper"
Nigel enters room 304 and looks around as if it was his very first time seeing it. Tacked up on one of the walls is a hand drawn map of the city with many polaroids of places and certain people, every one with a message in the white underneath the photo. He notices spots of adhesive where pictures used to be. He pulls out his collection and starts completing the puzzle. He puts a picture of the motel where it should be on the map. The next picture is blurred of a brunette walking through a door, it has "NATALIE" written on the white strip. He flips the picture over and reads the back, the first note has been scribbled out but the second one reads "SHE HAS ALSO LOST SOMEONE; SHE WILL HELP YOU OUT OF PITY". He sticks the picture up on the map. He looks over all his pictures; Natalie, Teddy, Burt, The Overlook Inn, his car.
Nigel sits down at the desk in the room and opens the brown envelop from Natalie. Inside is a copy of a car registration and a driver's license for a man named "CHAD DICKSON". He looks at the photo on the license and thinks. Chad. Why does he seem so familiar? Nigel stands up and compares the picture on the license to the picture of Teddy. They are identical. He told me his name was Teddy. He turns the picture over and reads the note on the back "DON'T LISTEN TO HIS LIES" Nigel goes over to the phone and dials the number on the picture. After a few rings it's answered "Yup."
"Mr Dickson?"
"Nigel? Is that you?"
"Mr Chad Dickson?"
"What? Nigel, it's Teddy. Look just stay there. I'll be over in a minute."
Nigel smiles "I'll be waiting". He hangs up.
He looks at the writing on his hand and then pulls back his sleeve to see the words "THE FACTS:" Nigel removes his jacket and then his shirt. He has writing all over his body some crude and some elegant. They are in all directions and one very prominent on his chest is backwards. On his left arm is written "THE FACTS:" beneath it "FACT 1. White" and beneath that "FACT 2. Male" and on his right arm "FACT 3. First Name: Ch-" and beneath that "FACT 4. Last Name: D-". Nigel pulls down his pants and looks at his left thigh, also tattooed. It reads, in extremely crude writing, "FACT 4. Mysterious Connections" and finally the last tattoo, in incredibly elegant writing, reads "FACT 6. License Plate Number: EG6U 4IW". Nigel grabs the registration copy and his Polaroid of Teddy and starts comparing them against his tattooed facts. White? Yes. Male? Yes. First Name? Chad. It works. Last Name? Dickson. Also works. Mysterious connections? I don't know about that one. License Number EG6U 4IW? It works. It's him. Nigel looks very coldly at the Polaroid of Teddy. I've finally found you. He flips over the picture of Teddy and writes in bold "HE IS THE ONE". He stands up and looks in the mirror and notices that now he can read the backwards tattoo "CH. D. MURDERED MY WIFE". Nigel frowns, puts his shirt and jacket back on, flips over the picture of Teddy, and writes "KILL HIM" next to "HE IS THE ONE". Nigel grabs his gun, makes sure it's loaded and puts in in his waistband.