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- Will brings up how he noticed children at the playground blindly trust their fathers. Then how his father also believed the man he killed "had to be" Marks murderer. He's disappointed in him, an image of a man he was supposed to admire has now been destroyed. His father then pulls the gun from Wills waistband and puts it to his head. Will is scared to the point of wetting himself, saying he has never been that close to death. He's about to take another life, and risk being attacked by his friends, but we can see that he's actually terrified. He isn't tough or fearless, he is just blindly following what he has been taught to do. Blindly following the rules. His father, having made his point, puts the gun back into his waistband as Will pushes him back screaming.
- As the elevator moves down to the second floor, Mark makes a comment about how Will could never survive prison, reinforcing the idea that he is just a scared kid, not someone ready to kill. When it reaches the second floor, the doors open and Shawn enters. Will is conflicted, he hugs his brother and goes through the events of after his death, but Shawn doesn't flinch. He doesn't say a word to him. During this conversation, Shawn begins to cry which confuses Will, and then he makes machine like noise. Shawn refuses to say a word to Will, and he's even more uncomfortable than he was before. Everyone begins to make their way out of the elevator, and Shawn finally speaks. He says to Will, "You coming?". Will has a choice to make, he could chose to go through with his plan and go down the path of everyone else in the elevator, or turn back and process his grief in a healthy way.
- After the events in the elevator, Will returns to his apartment, where his mother has woken up. Following the rules seemed like his only option, all he knew to do. However Will is smart, he has seen the path he was about to follow, and it never ends well. Although it goes against his beliefs, he decides to take time to think about his decision. He isn't sure that Carlson is the killer, and after hearing the story of his father he doesn't want to make the wrong choice. Will isn't ready to kill, he isn't ready to go to jail, he isn't ready to die. He still won't snitch and he won't cry, he'll think things over and find another way to get revenge.
- When Will reaches the sixth floor, another person joins. It's Dani, a girl he was friends with when he was young. She was killed at the age of 8, but appears in the elevator as 16. He doesn't recognize her at first because she is older, and after he does she borrows a smoke from Buck. She asks him why he has a gun, and what if he misses his shot. Will becomes increasingly uncomfortable in her presence. Her being there as a teen is likely supposed to show Will what you take away from a person when you kill them, to make him reconsider and reflect on his actions. Buck continues to mock him.
- Will's Uncle Mark is the next to enter the elevator. Will describes how strange it is to seem him because he knows Mark, but he has never met him. He talks about the stories his mother told him, about how Mark just wanted to make a movie, and when he needed money for a camera he turned to selling drugs. Mark goes through Wills plan with him, makes him say the words. Will finally says "and shoots" after being unable to. Mark makes Will really think about his actions, and we are able to see that he hasn't actually confronted the consequences of his plan.
- When the elevator doors open again, Wills father enters and the two share a hug. Will describes how his father looks at him like he is looking at his reflection, which makes sense when his father reveals that the story of his death was eerily similar to that of Wills. His father shot the man who killed Mark, who's friends were then sent to kill Wills father. Once again Will struggles talking casually to someone he knows so much about, but has never actually met. Will tries to find guidance, who just tells him the story of his kill and the events afterward. His father also admits that he killed the wrong man. The amount of parallels in the two stories make it clear that his father is trying to warn him from rushing into something, something he can't take back. He's been down the same path, and knows how devastating the results can be.
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