One of the most important characters within the play, the old man works at the Broad Arrow Café where the massacre took place, and was a direct witness to its atrocities. He suffers significant post-traumatic stress disorder, with flashbacks regularly plaguing him throughout the entirety of the play. The most significant of his episodes occurs at the climax of "Beyond the Neck", when Character 1 pretends that a massacre is happening again as a joke. The old man believes that he, and everyone around him, is in danger and thus reacts quickly. The monumental physical and emotional toll of witnessing the massacre is made clear to the audience through his monologue, as he describes in significant depth particular details about the event, such as the woman covered in blood who hugged him.