Billy Summers

by Stephen King

“Veronica is Archie’s girlfriend and Betty wants to be.”

Is this in the Archie universe?

and if Billy was on the jury, he’d probably vote for the needle just on the basis of that.

I mean it's fair just from my prospective. He did kill someone over a game of poker.

Lady Justice is based on Iustice, a Roman goddess more or less invented by the emperor Augustus.

thirty or maybe fifty thou.

He thought he’d be buying more clothes at the Walmart

Same bestie.

As Trump says at least once a day,

I dont like how much Trump related topics is in here.

Billy likes people, and he likes to keep them at arms’ length. It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not.

Nah cauz like same T-T

There’s so much to watch as well, it seems. The sheer volume of choices is intimidating and

NAH CAUSE THATS CRAZY ACCURATE

click-clack shoes,

Im calling heels this for now on!

“Mind me asking what your book is about?” Billy puts a finger to his lips. “Top secret.”

What is this bitch writing about!!

and he likes babes.

ngl i thought for a hot second that he said he likes babies.

“WiFi password. Totally safe. Secure as a bank vault.”

If someones putting in so much effort to tell a person how secure their wifi is it's probably not safe

mostly country and western.

Terrible genre

“I’m Dave Lockridge.

Okay so Billy did chage his name

Ken wearing a red MAGA hat.

I cannot tell if King is a huge trump fan or an anti-trump. Edit: searched it up he is indeed not a trump fan.

you son of a bitch bully chickenshit fucker

I think this speaks for itself.

He didn’t tackle Bob Raines while Bob Raines was kicking his sister and stepping on her and crushing her fragile chest on which no breasts would ever appear. Billy was supposed to take care of her. Take care of your sister was the last thing Ma always said when she left for her job at the laundry. But he didn’t take care of her. He ran. He ran for his life.

Damn, thats a lot of truma billy has gone through

Then I shot him, dead center mass. He just stood there in the doorway like nothing happen but I knew it did because I saw the blood fly out of his back.

Ahhh more truma

The memory of shooting Bob Raines doesn’t bother him, but it hurts to remember Cathy.

Reasonable

Take care of your sister.

slight magnification gives him headaches.

Same

“Get some sex in there, that’s my advice. Because sex sells.”

Nah because thats soo true

wrong. Not big wrong, just a little wonky.

Imma use this wording from now on

When the shot came, and the flashpot explosions, people would run everywhere. Including from the Gerard Tower and including Billy Summers, who would race around the corner and into the back of the van. There he would jump into a pair of DPW coveralls. “The van pulls around to the courthouse,” Nick said. “Cops

So in theory Billy is the hit man

He hates the idea of defacing that beauty by putting Dalton to work, but isn’t this exactly what Dalton Curtis Smith was created for? It is. One last job, the ever-popular last job, and Billy can disappear into a new identity. Probably not live the rest of his life in it, but even that’s possible, assuming he can get out of this town without being burned; the five hundred thousand down payment has already made the rounds and finished up at Dalton’s bank account in Nevis, and half a mil’s the biggest sign that Nick isn’t playing this funny. When the work is done, the rest will follow.

So he def is the hit man

Always supposing the deal goes down, the cops are going to know right away that it was David Lockridge who assassinated Joel Allen. They will then discover that David Lockridge is an alias of one William Summers, a Marine vet with sniper skills and sniper kills. They will also discover Summers’s association with Kenneth Hoff, the designated fall guy. What they must not discover is that Billy Summers, aka David Lockridge, has disappeared into the identity of Dalton Smith.

Okay so hes an assassin.

Cash has amnesia.

True that

Crossy Road.”

the best game in my book

“I’m going to powder my nose, okay?” Billy bursts out laughing. Corinne joins

him.

Comedian

“Next time,” Billy says. “I make it a policy to only beat up on kids once a weekend.”

Not Billy out here making jokes

It may be weeks or even months before Billy needs a gun. The assassination might not even happen at all, and would that be so bad? In monetary terms, yes. He’d lose one-point-five mill. As for the five hundred thousand he’s already been paid, would the person who ordered the assassination—the one Nick is go-betweening for—want the money back? “Good luck with that,” Billy says. And laughs.

To Nick and Giorgio (also to Ken Hoff, which he hates), he’s a gun for hire named Billy Summers. To the inhabitants of the Gerard Tower, he’s a wannabe writer named David Lockridge. Ditto the residents of Evergreen Street in Midwood. And now, on Pearson Street—nine blocks from Gerard Tower and four safe miles from Midwood—he is an overweight computer geek named Dalton Smith. Come to think of it, there’s even a fourth life: that of Benjy Compson, who is just enough not-Billy so Billy can look at painful memories he usually avoids.

What happened to getting friendly, but not too close? Can you be part of the scenery when you’re in the foreground? The short answer is no.

Then the man said you picked up a scorpion Mrs. Compson and he stung your little girl to death. You could have lost your son as well.

Idk i think the mogher has some blame in this incident but also she didnt know what wouldve happened

Mrs. Compson. You have lost one child because of poor choices, don’t lose the other.

There was another hearing, this time just about me, but what do you know, that same man who told the story about the scorpion and the frog was sitting at the table along with 2 new ones! He said you again. My mother said that’s right, me again and you know I lost my daughter. You know what I’ve been through. The man said I do know, and you don’t seem to have learned your lesson, Mrs. Compson.

Oooop

He didn’t come back on her for that but said you have 24 hours to put Benjy’s things together, Mrs. Compson, and to say goodbye. It will mean more to him if you’re sober when you do it.

Then she made me 2 PB&J sandwiches and put them in a lunch sack and told me to be a good boy. Then she started to cry and I did too. It was her fault I had to go away, everything was her fault, she was the one who gave the scorpion a ride and she was the one who kept getting drunk and blaming it on Cassie being dead, but I cried because I loved her.

but you can’t help how you feel. Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.

According to William Wordsworth, the best writing is about strong emotion recalled in tranquility.

Billy has lost his tranquility.

MOA

I know it's not TXT related but i'd like to think so

He could see her underpants if she was wearing any, but she’s not.

Imortant how?