the long walk home

I don't remember exactly, but he picked him up--electrocuted-- in darkness and returned him in daylight?

So I'm estimating he found Mikey -dead- at about 1am? got home by car kept the body until dawn, put Joan Allen and Wendy in the car? or walked, I forget which, and took him home?

"He sent the rain."
"Who sent the fire?"

I think that Ben sees it as a via dolorosa, an act of redemption for himself, but it ends up being a typically selfish act. After all, why not get the boy to a hospital? Instead he insinuates himself into another family's tragedy and aggrandizes his bogus role as savior. In the novel, Ben doesn't even bring Mikey to his parents, he first brings him home to the flooded Hood house, where the pipes have frozen and burst.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.