Chapters 48 through Afterward Summary and Analysis

In chapter forty-eight, Dylan and Eric had tried to make plans of how to get the bomb into the school and finally decided they would simply walk in with them. One of Dylan's teachers recounted a story he'd written for a creative writing class about the impact of murder. The teacher contacted Dylan's parents and his guidance counselor. None of them were particularly worried but none of them knew that Dylan and Eric had been making pipe bombs. Dylan and Eric went with Manes for target-practice a couple of times. On several occasions, Dylan gave people information about their plans though it wasn't ever taken as a serious threat. At one point he told Zack they had bought guns.

In chapter forty-nine, the search warrant executed on the afternoon of the massacre was made public and confirmed...