“Enjoy your Weekend, I know I will”

“Enjoy your Weekend, I know I will” is the postscript to the Mercedes Killer’s short message to Hodges, and its seemingly casual cheer becomes an urgent clue. The words suggest that something is planned for the weekend, but they do not say what; their force lies in making Hodges and Jerome act under uncertainty.

Appearance and Context

The phrase appears at the end of the killer’s latest communiqué, beneath the sign-off “So long, SUCKER.” Hodges reads it on a screen after Jerome tells him to click the message. Although the communiqué offers no immediate practical help, the postscript gives Hodges a ray of hope: if the weekend reference is genuine, the investigators may still have time to respond.

Hodges recognizes that the line could be a red herring. He nevertheless focuses on it rather than on the apparent personal dismissal of the sign-off. The message therefore functions both as taunt and possible warning: it asserts the killer’s confidence while giving his pursuers a narrow, ambiguous indication of when to look for danger.

The Concert as a Possible Target

The postscript takes on a specific urgency when Jerome connects it to that night’s concert by the boy band ’Round Here at Mingo Auditorium. Jerome’s mother and sister plan to attend, and the venue seats four thousand. Hodges notes that the audience will be predominantly women—mothers and preteen daughters—and that a lone man at an event aimed at young girls would attract attention. The setting makes the threat imaginable without proving that the concert is its target.

Jerome considers calling his mother to tell her to keep the girls home, but hesitates at the prospect of alarming her and disrupting plans involving his sister and her friends. He then weighs the timing: it is Thursday, while the message refers to the weekend. The interval may mean the killer has something planned soon, or that he wants Hodges to think so. That uncertainty keeps the postscript from becoming a straightforward warning.

Interpretation and Consequence

Hodges judges the taunt more likely to be genuine than false, but does not treat that judgment as certainty. Instead, he asks Jerome to find the Cyber Patrol photograph of Hartsfield displayed under “MEET THE EXPERTS,” while he calls Marlo Everett in Police Records. The phrase thus redirects the investigation toward identifying or locating the suspected killer even as its timing leaves the intended event unsettled.

Its recurring wording matters as much as its content: “Enjoy your Weekend, I know I will” appears again in the discussion of the threat, forcing the characters to test the same clue against the concert, the calendar, and the possibility of deliberate deception. The postscript’s menace comes from that unresolved double function. It offers enough information to provoke action, but not enough to make the danger—or its timing—certain.