The gang starts feeling uneasy when a new trouble-making greaser starts hanging around Pony. When Pony goes missing, the new greaser is oddly calm about it. Is he really the greaser that he claims to be? "Damn you! What have you done to my little brother?" Darry threw him against the wall but all he did was laugh. "Odd. I always thought you were the smart one, Darrel."

He thought their first meeting was coincidental but then he started seeing him all over town. Then he kidnapped him to his house and next thing Pony knew, he was acting out this sick man's belief. He wanted to be home, he wanted the gang, but most of all he wanted to be Ponyboy Curtis, not this sick man's doll.