Chapter 213

“I liked it, a lot. First-person shooter games can get a bit boring, but you’ve got enough story in there to keep the player interested. The character arc surprised me. You don’t normally see that in a game like this. How does it end, though? Like if you get all the bad guys and manage to evade the police?” Mason looked back at the screen to watch the current player get taken out by one of the criminals he’d been pursuing. “He doesn’t,” Mason said. “He doesn’t?” Mason looked back at Lisa. “The guy doesn’t win, he can’t. He knows what he’s doing is wrong, but he does it anyway because he just has this need inside him for revenge. But he also knows he has to die, if not at the hands of the murderers he’s after, then by the police. His ultimate goal is to join his wife in death, but he wants to take as many bad guys with him along the way.” “Suicide by police?” she asked with a raised eyebrow. He shrugged. “It seemed appropriate.” Lisa turned back to the screen as someone else took up the