19. What does 'Zack McCool' leave in Lisey's mailbox?
From Quiz Lisey's Story
Answer:
A dead cat
After Darla and Lisey drop Amanda off at the Rehabilitation Center, Lisey drives home and thinks about the stations of the bool, contemplating over whether or not the bools left for her are her memories or her keepsakes, or something else entirely. Lisey stops at a convenience mart to pick up a pack of cigarettes, a habit she and Scott gave up many years ago, and she smokes a few from the pack in her car while reminiscing about her honeymoon with Scott at a place called 'The Antlers'. She followed Scott into the woods that day and they ate lunch under a willow tree they affectionately named the Yum Yum Tree. Lisey snaps out of it about an hour later and remembers her time with Scott in the hospital, which happened shortly after he was shot in Nashville. The nurse looking after him went in to see if he was okay but found him missing. When she checked back later on, he was in his normal bed, as if nothing happened. Remembering the sequence of events, Lisey figures that her next station of the bool would take them to her honeymoon at the Yum Yum Tree, but to determine this, she must find Good Ma's Cedar Box, a keepsake passed down to her by her mother.
Returning home, Lisey passes by a PT Cruiser and waves at the driver, something customary around her house. When she reaches into her mailbox to retrieve her deliveries, she finds a dead cat inside, and upon heading in her back door, she finds a note from Zack McCool, who left the cat as a warning to her, as well as Professor Woodbody's number in Pittsburgh. She then realizes that Zack was the man in the PT Cruiser before she removes the cat from the mailbox, placing it into a plastic bag. She calls the Professor soon after, who tells her that he is very sorry, but Zack McCool (who he thinks is actually named Jim Dooley) will not stop, as he is a very shady man who seems to know Scott's work. Although Lisey recognizes his apology, she still calls the police, who stop by to take the note and the cat and stand watch outside her house. Before they arrive though, Lisey goes to her car to retrieve the silver shovel, and along the way she thinks that she sees a figure near the barn, but she can't be sure.
When the cops leave, Lisey searches the house top to bottom, literally, clearing the attic, spare bedroom, and cellar for the Cedar Box. When Lisey gets a call from Boston from her sister, Canty, she realizes that she forgot about the notebook given to her by Amanda when she cleaned the booksnake in the study, and as she flips through it, on the last page it reads: '4th station: look under the bed.' Lisey looks under the bed but only finds a pair of slippers, but when she looks to the back of the book, she finds the word 'mein gott', and her mind flips to her and Scott's time in Germany, which was really a horrible time; Scott stopped writing, Lisey was unhappy, and the time they spent together wasn't in sobriety. Regardless, Scott shipped the bed back to the States years later, and it is here that Lisey finds the fourth station of the bool.
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