He buys her a gorgeous locket necklace and delivers it to her at her work. She loves it, she really does, but their was something she noticed in his eyes when he gave it to her that gave her a spooky feeling. After that, Richard has an emergency a few hours away and he just leaves a note on her car saying he will be back in a few. During that time, Mike takes up his chance and him and Julie go to dinner and do things more the way small town people do, rather than Richard's big ideas. When Richard comes back, she decides she will break it off with him. He comes to her house late the night he gets back, scaring her as he knocks on the door. She simply opens it and talks to him right at the door, rather than let him in. After she tells him, she goes to shut the door and he stops her, so she screamed. Not comfortable around Richard anyway, Singer comes up and attacks him, biting his hand and knocking him down. Julie pulls him off and then was about to shut the door when Richard let out something, very quietly, very subtly- "I just got back from my mother's funeral.".
Julie lets him in the house where he keeps having one beer after the next and talking to her. Soon his words are slurred and he falls asleep right on her couch. Should she wake him and make him leave? She wondered. She decided not to, but that night she locked her bedroom door with Singer inside to protect her. Richard leaves and she decides there is no need to tell Mike any of this. Her and Mike keep dating, and in the back of her mind, Julie knows their is something wrong with the whole Richard idea. He keeps happening to see her, like at the grocery store, or coming into her salon. She almost feels as if she is being stalked. After a while, the police get involved, just talking to her to set things straight. Then it gets worse.
One day Julie decides to take Singer for a walk since it has been so long since she's done that.