

Julie's feelings for Ray are revitalized and she feels bored with Bud her new boyfriend. Helen meets a new fellow who has just moved into her apartment complex, but with her selfish ways, doesn't get to know much about him- her new friend. They learn that they wrecked a whole family and not just one little boy. They go to the Gregg house to see if they can learn anything there. Ray even goes so far as to tell Barry he wants to break the pact. While they wonder who could have found out about them and what it would ultimately mean, Julie and Ray continually revisit the events and their feelings of guilt. Helen seems to have the life of luxury and Barry is having a great time going to college, until the mysterious clues start coming in. Ray has to get away and moves to California and Julie drops out of all her extra activities and sticks to her studies. Eventually, however they also agree not to tell.Īfter they learn that the boy they hit died from the injuries, Julie feels guilty and sends yellow roses to the funeral, and they try to go about their lives. Helen agrees quickly, but Julie and Ray take a little more convincing.

Since Barry is afraid the police will be very hard on him for driving recklessly and hurting someone, he forces them to make a pact never to tell what happened. They decide that there is nothing they can do for the boy so they do not go back to him. Instead of stopping the car and helping, Barry continued down the road to a phone where they stopped so Ray could call the police. Coming around a corner too fast, Barry didn't see the boy, David Gregg, on the bike until it was too late and he was hit.

Ray and Julie were in the back seat making out. Barry was driving recklessly on a winding road with Helen next to him in the front seat. Eventually, the details of what happened last summer come out. Finally, Barry gets a phone call to meet someone at the football field amid the firework celebration and gets shot.Īfter each contact from the unknown person, Julie, Helen, Ray, and Barry talk to each other about who could be leaving these messages and what they all mean. A short while later, Ray gets a similarly nondescript envelope in the mail that contains only a newspaper article about the accident. Julie gets a nondescript letter in the mail with only seven words on it that says, "I know what you did last summer." Then Helen finds a picture of a boy on a bike ripped from a magazine advertisement of some sort, taped to her apartment door.

The mysterious clues come in a year after the accident.
