

Layne gets annoyed and kicks Clarissa out of his car. Layne, Clarissa and Matt go to Mike's house to extract his confession, but Mike's father drives them off with a shotgun. They borrow his father's car and head to Feck's. Tim runs off, and meets up with his friend Moko (Yuzo Nishihara). Tim threatens Matt with telling Layne about Clarissa's phone call, and Matt hits him.

Matt's mother picks him up from the police station, and he gets in a fight with her boyfriend Jim (Leo Ross). Matt brings detective Bennett (Tom Bower) to the place where the body was, and the cops fish her out of the river. Feck recognizes a kindred spirit, and they begin to talk. They go to Feck for help, and Layne leaves John with him. John buys him beer, but doesn't seem to care that Layne is trying to protect him. That nigth, Layne rolls Jamie's body into the river. She's too scared to call the police, and later calls Matt, but Matt is too shy to talk. Clarissa is uncomfortable with the secret, but Layne threatens her. No one is willing to help, including John. They see the body, and Layne tells them to help bury her. The murder story starts to spread, and Layne tries to borrow Mike's (Phillip Brock) truck. Burkewaite teaches his class about radicals, and Clarissa flirts with him.
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Matt is nervous and leaves, and Layne starts planning how to get alibis. Samson/John arrives and takes them to see Jamie's body. At school, Layne and Matt smoke pot with Clarissa (Ione Skye) Maggie (Roxana Zal) and Tony (Josh Richman). Layne gets drugs from Feck, and Feck talks about the girl he had to kill. Layne and Matt arrive at Feck's house, where Feck (Dennis Hopper) is playing saxophone for an inflatable doll. Layne refuses, and Tim bicycles off, despite his mother's complaint. Layne (Crispin Glover) arrives to pick up Matt, and Tim asks to come along. His little sister Kim (Tammy Smith) wants Matt's help for a funeral for her lost doll, and we learn that the family is dysfunctional. As Tim returns home, his brother Matt (Keanu Reeves) is arguing with his mother (Constance Forslund). They drive to Feck's place for drugs, but he's not home. Tim asks Samson for dope, and gets in Samson's car. While Samson haggles with the clerk, he steals two beers and leaves them for Samson. Samson leaves in a daze, and Tim spots him at a convenience store. The boy pedals off, and Samson smokes a cigarette by the naked corpse of Jamie (Danyi Deats). He hears a yell, and sees Samson/John (Daniel Roebuck) sitting on the shore.

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The movie opens with a boy, Tim (Joshua Miller) playing on a bridge. While some may want revenge against "the snitch", the actions of the collective demonstrate how detached they are about their friend Jamie's death.
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The police eventually do find out about the murder, and Layne hides John, using his older "friend" Feckler-who generally supplies them with free weed and allegedly killed a young woman when he was about their age-while others try to find out who told the police. Despite Jamie being their friend, no one says anything to the authorities they feel almost paralyzed because their unofficial leader Layne wants to protect John by getting rid of Jamie's body. Another person who knows about the murder is Matt's equally-delinquent 12-year-old brother Tim, who might be even more dangerous than the teens as he does anything to get what he wants, namely weed, and to honor what he sees as the code, not understanding the consequences. John feels the need to tell his friends what he did, and in small groups they go down to the clearing to ascertain that he's telling the truth. John left her naked dead body where he killed her, in a small clearing by the river. John has just killed Jamie because she was spouting off about his deceased mother, a sensitive issue to him. High-schoolers Layne, Matt, Samson-who is nicknamed John since his last name, Tollet, sounds like toilet-Mike, Tony, Clarissa, Jamie, and Maggie are a bunch of delinquents who often hang out together smoking weed or drinking.
