Summary

Matt is suddenly awoken by Dave telling him, “Welcome to Weedland!” (177). Matt is in the back of Dave’s car sitting next to Jamie. They are driving to meet the weed grower from whom Matt would be buying from. They are in a rural town about an hour outside the city. Matt recognizes the town as he has been there many times before; when he was a reporter he would drive to this town to get rural reactions from farmers and residents about any agricultural related business news that happened. He declines to share with the group that he knows the place, and they soon pull up to the growers house.

Once there they see “a shortish, roundish, twentyish guy in a backward ball cap answers the door, chattering away on a cell phone” (179). This is the growers brother, Chet...