Lola in the Mirror

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence and addiction.

The sketch depicts a city bridge leading into a giant skull. The museum label notes that this is a depiction of the dark underbelly of Brisbane.

Walking in the rain, Lola feels alive and grateful. When she approaches a grassy area, she sees Charlie passed out drunk. As she gets closer, a figure emerges from the shadows with a bloodstained cricket bat. Lola runs and threatens the man with her knife. In a quiet voice, he confesses to killing the other two men. Lola begs him not to hurt Charlie. Putting her knife away, she tells him to club her instead. When he takes a step toward Lola, she adds that she prefers that he did not hurt her because she just fell in love. This is enough to make the man pause and then disappear. Terrified and relieved, Lola wakes her friend.

It is still raining the next morning. After Lola recounts the previous night, Charlie jokes that if he were killed, he would be famous. Lola begs him to stop drinking, and registering her genuine fear, Charlie apologizes. However, they argue about Danny, and then Lola learns that the scrapyard was sold, so they will lose their homes.