The Beginning- The beginning of I Know What You Did Last Summer was very suspenseful. Julie James and her three friends haven't been the same since last summer. It begins with kind of a flashback of four teenage friends who were coming home from a bar one night. They had all been drinking and smoking pot, and were all a bit hyped. So, as they're driving down a long, winding road, they accidentally hit a kid on his bike. They decide that they would keep the accident a secret, and just left the boy there. The boy dies, and all four of the teens feel so horrible and insecure, but they know that their secret cannot be told, so they form a pact. One year goes by, and a lot of thing change. The friends kind of split up. Ray goes to California, and Julie stays at home with her mother. Helen becomes a famous television broadcaster, and Barry goes to the local college. Julie, the most insecure, gets a letter in the mail that says "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER". At first she thinks it's some sort of a coincidental joke- but then she gets worried. All of the friends meet back up and turns out that lately, all of them have gotten the threat notes.
The Plot- One summer after the four friends hit the boy with their car, their secret was still kept, and the pact unbroken- or so they thought. After a year of secrecy, they all meet up again and it turns out that each of them have gotten a different type of threat applying to what they did last summer. Julie is really freaked out, but she can't let her new boyfriend Bud know the truth. Helen's new roommate Collie is also suspicious of Helen's strange behavior. One night, Barry receives a strange telephone call. On the phone, some unknown person tells Barry to meet him at the athletic field by the fireworks display. Barry goes, and couldn't hear the bullet shot at him until he felt the bullet tear into his spine. The next morning, Barry wakes up in the hospital and finds out he's been shot, but he's not going to be paralyzed.