Ignace ‘Iggy’ Kovac is killed by a bullet to the head, a story that makes the front page of the newspaper; his childhood friend, now grown up and married, is able to recognise him even though he is much older and bloodied. The headline reads ‘RACKETS BOSS SHOT TO DEATH.’ This photograph stirs in him a recollection of the last time he saw Iggy, on what he called ‘the day of the bullet’ – the moment when a man’s destiny becomes clear. It was the day that he would leave Iggy behind forever and move to Manhattan, but for the next few hours, the boys were still best friends. They decide to spend the day sneaking into the stream by the golf course, fishing for golf balls that they can resell to golfers. Startled by a noise, they take cover in the bushes just in time to see a small man restrained and beaten badly by two others. The man who enacts the most violence is Mr. Rose, who in the past had scared away the boys from his yard when they came to admire his car. Iggy’s animosity towards Mr. Rose is much more personal, because the man had grabbed him and shaken him quite roughly – so when he sees Mr. Rose assaulting the man, he is determined to report it to the police. His friend is reluctant to go with him, but eventually agrees. At the police station, Iggy tells the story again and again. The sergeant, upon hearing that Mr. Rose is involved, seems eager to have the complaint dismissed, but Iggy childishly threatens to get his own father involved. Mr. Kovac and Mr. Rose come down to the police station, and Mr. Rose is able to put on a convincing act as he denies everything. Desperate, Iggy turns to his father for help – but Mr. Kovac is clearly cowed by the police and Mr. Rose. He shuts Iggy down entirely. Mr. Rose laughs it off and hands Iggy some money. Iggy’s friend observes that he could use it to buy the golf club that he had been saving up for – but upon realising that it is a five-dollar bill, insists that Iggy should give it to his father. Iggy then denounces his relationship with his father and says that he will report him to Mr. Rose if he tries to take the money from him.