The action of the film occurs over a five-day period, from a Friday through a Tuesday morning.[Friday]The story officially begins in downtown San Francisco with a view of a cable car, as an attractive, elegantly-dressed (obviously rich) and coiffed, high-heeled blonde woman with a black suit crosses the street at Union Square.Meanwhile, Max Dillon emerged onto a dark one-way street and immediately set off the horns and car alarms of parked vehicles.Freddy caught the aberrant hearing aid from the blast and joked: "Nice hearing from you, Carlos."All that was left of Carlos in the bedroom was his hearing aid, found by Tracy.In the downstairs living room, Spencer was smoking pot and falling asleep on the sofa - and would become Freddy""s next prey:Spencer watched an image on the broken-down TV set with a smashed screen (of desperate kids"" faces, scarred or bloodied inside the tube, one of whom was Carlos who screamed a warning: "Don""t fall asleep, man!").He also removed a revolver from a flower vase, searched for money, and used Phelps"" laptop computer to access the Internet and search for two phrases on Usenet Groups: Job 314, and then max.Get your asses outta here....Look, you""re not stayin"" with me." However, she took an hour""s break, asked her co-worker Jeanne (Norma Dell""Agnese) to cover for her, and led them to her second-floor apartment, striding past whirring bulldozers and an ironic sign reading: "Atlantic City, you""re back on the map.