It's not that straightforward of a story, and no one here has put it in full narrative form yet..
3 times dark gets progressively darker. I think the first is just antisocial murderous tendencies in the mind of the fugitive who accidentally blows up the pump at the end. This guy is some kind of tradesman with tools, and drives an Oldsmobile. He is probably just in the habit of pulling dangerous, life threatening stunts.
The second is him shooting a car with a BB gun from a nearby roof, which is certainly dangerous. The car dies, and the driver probably dies in the accident caused by the shot. Manuela ("God is with us") is a witness, calls police. Manuela sings the chorus, "I bear witness".
In the 3rd dark, the guy runs, jumps rooftops, goes down through an elevator, and escapes capture - becoming a hunted fugitive. The police trace him with forensics and his card as he travels from Detroıt to somewhere else, which is his own personal Hell ("from the motor city to the cıty of Dis", the city of Dis being an infernal city I know of from old school D and D) now that he is most likely guilty of manslaughter. He is nervous, no sleep, sick ... and the story ends like everyone said, when he smokes at a gas pump and blows it up, ending the investigation with a bang.
It's not that straightforward of a story, and no one here has put it in full narrative form yet.. 3 times dark gets progressively darker. I think the first is just antisocial murderous tendencies in the mind of the fugitive who accidentally blows up the pump at the end. This guy is some kind of tradesman with tools, and drives an Oldsmobile. He is probably just in the habit of pulling dangerous, life threatening stunts.
The second is him shooting a car with a BB gun from a nearby roof, which is certainly dangerous. The car dies, and the driver probably dies in the accident caused by the shot. Manuela ("God is with us") is a witness, calls police. Manuela sings the chorus, "I bear witness".
In the 3rd dark, the guy runs, jumps rooftops, goes down through an elevator, and escapes capture - becoming a hunted fugitive. The police trace him with forensics and his card as he travels from Detroıt to somewhere else, which is his own personal Hell ("from the motor city to the cıty of Dis", the city of Dis being an infernal city I know of from old school D and D) now that he is most likely guilty of manslaughter. He is nervous, no sleep, sick ... and the story ends like everyone said, when he smokes at a gas pump and blows it up, ending the investigation with a bang.