Murky waters

Cody Rogers, a senior at Texas Tech University and an outstanding basketball player, drafted by the San Antonio Spurs, and Abby White, a girl he meets on campus, are driving home from a picnic at Buffalo Lake. As Abby, slightly tipsy, drives them across an old wooden bridge, she turns toward Cody to say something. The next sounds Cody hears are wood splitting and brakes locking down. Abby’s Honda crashes through the railing and careens out over the water. The jolt knocks both of them out. After Cody recovers, he dives down three times to save her but is unable to pull her from the car.

Surfacing, he realizes there’s no way she can still be alive. Cody collapses on the shore, looks around, but sees no one. Reporting the incident to the police could endanger his contract with the Spurs.

No one has seen what happened. Abby is gone. He can’t help her now. Her death could ruin him forever. He only has one choice.

Walk away.