Accelerated

Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working (or wasting time) the summer before

senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the

end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has

really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now

terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back.

Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the

hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he

discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture experiments,

boasts of arson fires, and the planning for the serial killings of three women.

Duncan decides to make amends for his failure last summer by tracking down the owner of

the journal by using clues left hidden in the diary. After talking with his friend Vinny, Duncan

decides to turn the journal over to the police, but they do not take him seriously, so he decides to

get help from Vinny, do some research at the local library, and find out where the killer works and

lives so they can prove to the police the diary is for real.

But in the process