Character Relationship Map: The Pact

Characters

• Susan Tuttle (played by Sigrid Thornton) — protagonist

  Susan is one of four teenage friends who seek thrills by surfing trains. After Patricia is killed, Susan joins the others in a pact to do something good in her memory or return to ride the train in 15...

• Wilga Roberts (played by Robert Mammone) — protagonist

  Wilga is one of the teenage friends who train-surf with Susan, Patricia, and Kenny. After Patricia's death, he joins their pact. Fifteen years later, after spending years in prisons and mental wards,...

• Young Kenny De Silva (played by Mitchell McMahon) — minor

  Young Kenny is Kenny during his teenage years, when he and Susan, Wilga, and Patricia seek thrills by train surfing. After Patricia's fatal accident, he is part of the group that makes a pact to do so...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Wilga Roberts → Young Kenny De Silva (Social Teenage Friends) — Former close friends from their train surfing days.
• Susan Tuttle → Young Kenny De Silva (Social Teenage Friends) — Former close friends who shared the same youthful experiences.
• Susan Tuttle → Wilga Roberts (Social Teenage Friends) — Former close friends who surfed trains together in youth.

Story Analysis

A youthful death pact returns fifteen years later as coercion, violence, and a forced return to a deadly train ride.

Plot Progression

1. Dangerous Youth — Teenage friends seek an adrenaline high by surfing trains. Their reckless routine creates the conditions for a fatal accident.
2. The Fatal Promise — Patricia is impaled by a water pipe and dies. The surviving friends create a pact intended to honour her, but it carries a deadly future consequence.
3. The Pact Returns — Fifteen years later, two survivors have forgotten the promise. Wilga, shaped by years in prisons and mental wards, returns to collect on it.
4. Coerced Final Ride — Wilga murders Susan's boyfriend and kidnaps her daughter. He uses the child as leverage to force Susan toward the train and the end of the line.