You can see him look at the spent pen on the concrete and pick it up with two fingers and turn it so he can read the label. EpiPen. Epinephrine injection, USP, 0.3 mg auto-injector. Clem's name on the pharmacy sticker. You can see his shoulders come down an inch.
Then Verlene is in the frame. Her face is very close to the camera.
"Officer. Officer. I am the president of this homeowners association and that is my grandson, and that girl stuck a needle in him without my permission. She carries these around. I have reported her for it. I have the rest of them right here." She holds up the sloth pouch. "I want her arrested. I want it on the record that I want her arrested."
"Ma'am, I understand. I need you to step back for me."
"You don't know what's in those. Neither do I. You don't know where she got it."
"It's prescribed to me," Clem says. "My name's on it. You can call my allergist."
"I'd like everybody to stay calm," Sutter says, to the whole deck. "Young lady, I'm going to need you to stay right there for me, okay? Nobody's in trouble right now. I just need to sort this out." He keeps the spent pen in his gloved hand. He's careful. He's doing it by the book, and the book, at that moment, says that a guardian has made a complaint and the juvenile stays put until the facts are clear.
Clem stays put. That's on the footage too. She doesn't argue with him. She says, "Yes, sir." And then she looks down at Archie, and you can see her face change, the same way it changed when she read the card on the dessert table.
Because it was coming back.