Rufus and Mateo discuss the plans they had for their life, with Mateo expressing that he always wanted to be an architect and Rufus admitting that he wished he could have turned his passion for photography into a career.
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Rufus opens up about his past, explaining that his parents and sister all received a phone call from Death-Cast on the same day and drowned when their car crashed into the river, leaving him as the only survivor. Rufus receives a call from Aimee telling him that Malcolm and Tagoe were arrested when they attempted to hold off the police to give him more time to escape. Not wanting to make Lidia upset, Mateo acts like everything is normal but places a large envelope of cash on her table before leaving and blocking her phone number so she won't be able to contact him. Mateo and Rufus then go to see Lidia, Mateo's best friend, and her baby daughter (and Mateo's goddaughter) Penny. Mateo says goodbye to his father and leaves him a note for him to read when he wakes up telling him that he has died. Mateo agrees to meet with Rufus and explains that he wants to go to the hospital to visit to his father who has been in a coma for two weeks and Rufus agrees to go with him.
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Rufus flees from the funeral and goes on the run, downloading Last Friend so that he won't live out his final day alone. Rufus, Aimee, Malcolm and Tagoe, collectively known as The Plutos, hold a funeral for Rufus at his foster home but it is interrupted by Peck, who calls the police to have him arrested for attempted murder. His friends, Malcolm and Tagoe remind Rufus not to get carried away because of the news and he allows Peck to leave so that he can return to his foster home to say his goodbyes. Rufus is in the middle of beating up Peck, his ex-girlfriend Aimee's new boyfriend when he receives the call from Death-Cast. Mateo initially intends to spend his End Day in his bedroom but decides to try and push himself to truly live, reluctantly downloading Last Friend, an app developed to help lonely Deckers find someone to spend their End Day with.
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At midnight on September 5, Mateo receives a phone call from Death-Cast, a company that rose to prominence seven years prior and is able to predict the deaths of individuals, informing him that he is now a Decker, someone with only twenty four hours(or less) left to live.