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uncover the truth, that the gril was killed by Booth over drugs and drug money.

Gary ends up free after being convicted of murder while Peter ends up on the

same page as his father and in love with the beautiful and intelligent Donna

Harmon, whom he will marry and live with in the beautiful, quiet city of

Whitaker, Oregon.

Gary Harmon, unlike most others, sometimes needs others to think for him.

Whether or not the right people think for him or not is what makes this story.

It began in the Stallion, when Kevin Booth and Christopher Mammon told Gary to

ask a girl at the bar whether he could buy her a drink. They knew that she

didn’t want him to, but with just a little persuasion, Gary was led into a

delusional world, believing that the girl wanted him to buy her a drink and

perhaps take her home after that. When he was so abruptly brought out of his

delusional world, he became violent. After that, when Gary was brought into the

questioning room of the police station the next day, two police officers

desperately searcing for some answers also began to think for Gary Harmon.

After a series of questions to which they supplied the answers, they had Gary

believing that he had supernatural powers and that he could recall the past,

even that of which he had not experienced. They used this information to put

Gary on trial for a murder which they created in his mind. It took Peter Hale,

whom in himself he had no belief, to believe and think correctly for Gary Harmon

and save his innocent life from others who thought nothing of it.

Margolin used this story to symbolize all of those who live in

delusional worlds, some believing they know everything or some not knowing what

they know, and show how vulnerable those people can be. It is the people who

fight for the well-being of people in delusional worlds and try to convince them

to face reality that save them from disaster. This creates a great universal

appeal in this story, because everyone knows someone who lives in a delusional

world and can relate to the efforts of Peter Hale.