The Stranger

In the American Legion Hall in Cedarfield, New Jersey, Adam Price waits for the elementary boys’ lacrosse team selection to begin. Adam is filling in for his wife, Corinne Price, the team’s treasurer, while she’s at a teacher’s conference.

A stranger approaches Adam at the bar and bluntly tells him that Corinne faked her pregnancy and miscarriage two years prior. The information shocks Adam, as the man seems unshakably confident in his statements. Adam saw the pregnancy test and sonograms, but the stranger claims that the items were all fake. The team president, Tripp Evans, calls the meeting to order, and the stranger tells Adam that he can verify the facts through credit card transactions to Novelty Funsy. He also suggests taking a paternity test for Adam’s two sons, just in case Corinne lied about them too. Before Adam can recover from this blow, the stranger rushes out of the room.

Adam chases the stranger, but the man escapes with a young woman waiting in a car. Adam returns inside for the team selection, though he finds it hard to concentrate. He absentmindedly crosses names off Corinne’s scouting report as each boy gets drafted.