When Pat heard, his mind immediately went to thoughts of police arriving and freeing them all from this van. The thought of his time being kidnapped finally ending felt a bit surreal, he had actually grown to like his captors a little bit. Pat even considered shortening his victory jig while Stretch and Co were carted off to prison. Then the van was hit for the first time and Pat realized things weren't going to be that simple. Pat managed to hit his head on the side of the van when it was hit the second time. After that, all Pat remembers is waking up with the van on its side and everyone running out the back.

As Pat struggled to his feet, he tried to remember what that one captor had said they should do in this situation. The hit on his head had left him with a lovely bump and a pounding headache. It was no migraine, but it still dulled his mind enough that concentration was difficult. [I]Let's see here the man said to... run for the thicket and not to do anything heroic. For some reason I don't think the latter will prove much of a problem.[/I] Pat wasn't sure why everyone was leaving the relative safety of the van to run towards a thicket because their captors instructed them to. But it was better to be an idiot with the group than to be alone in a battlefield, so Pat reluctantly ran after them.