Davey Armstrong

David Armstrong, also known as Davey, is the main protagonist of the film Summer of 84.
==Biography==
===Pre 1984===
Not much is known about Davey's life before 1984, other than that he lived in Ipswich, Oregon, and was babysat by Nikki Kaszuba. She gave him his first journal, which led to him becoming a conspiracy theorist, collecting newspapers and reading mystery books. He also developed a love for videography, and would often take his father's camcorder to record things. At some point he started a paper route.
===Summer of 84===
In June of 1984, he and his friends, Eats, Woody, and Faraday, were playing manhunt, a hide and seek type game, and while hiding Davey spotted a boy in his neighbor Wayne Mackey's house. The next night, he overhears a phone call from his father to his boss, informing him of a letter from someone calling themselves the "Cape May Slayer". He tells his friends, and is excited at the prospect of having a killer in town during a lazy summer.
The morning after, Davey notices Dusty Dewitt, the boy in Mackey's house, as a missing kid on a milk carton. He starts suspecting that Mackey is the killer, and informs his friends, who are skeptical as Mackey is a well-liked police officer. They start staking out Mackey, noting his weekly schedule and even stealing Woody's mother's car to follow him to the hardware store Eats's older brother works at. At the same time, he begins hanging out with Nikki again, being there for her when her parents decide to get divorced. He tells her of his confidence in not getting caught and that Mackey is really a killer.
One night playing manhunt, he attempts to tape an old walkie-talkie to Mackey's bedroom window, and is almost caught by him. Noticing that it doesn't seem to pick up anything, he attempts to check it the next morning, but is caught by Mackey, who assumes he's there for payment for his newspaper delivery. He takes Davey out to his garden where he has the money in his tool shed. Davey notices his garden looks suspiciously like a grave, and he leaves. That night, he sees Mackey staring at him with binoculars through his window, and the walkie-talkie strapped to Mackey's check rail, realizing that Mackey is suspicious.
He has Woody and Faraday follow Mackey’s late night jog on their bikes, while he and Eats go into his garden to dig it up for bodies. They don't find anything, but Eats unlocks the toolshed and they search there, where Davey finds Dusty Dewitt's shirt with blood on it. When he and Eats meet up with Woody and Farady in their treehouse, Farady informs them that Mackey has a spare car in his storage unit (a green Volkswagen) and notes that his soil bags have the symbol for sodium hydroxide, which can be used to help speed the body decomposition process. They inform Davey's parents, who are furious, and Davey's father drags them over to Mackey's house to force them to apologize. Mackey reveals that the boy was actually his nephew Jamie and the blood on his shirt was probably due to cutting himself while hammering nails. Even though he doesn’t seem upset, Davey stands by his theory and is grounded.
The next morning, Mackey comes over to apologize and offers to call Jamie for Davey. However, the phone doesn’t pick up and Davey finds out that Mackey actually called himself. He later sees Mackey on the news being applauded as a hero for capturing the "real" killer. Davey's friends reluctantly agree to keep him protected and look out for Mackey while he searches his house with his dad's camcorder.
Davey and Woody sneak into Mackey's house. Nikki tags along, and they are briefly discouraged when Faraday informs them that Mackey and the other policemen were being honored for a pier beautification project, which explains the equipment Mackey bought (the shovels, pickaxes, and soil). While Faraday and Eats abandon Davey's scheme, he, Woody, and Nikki continue searching Mackey's house, finding a locked room decorated like his when he was a kid, with a bathroom next to it. They go in and discover a decomposing body in the bathtub, along with a starved abductee. They present the recordings to the police department, who put an APB on Mackey, and Davey's parents tearfully apologize to him while driving home.
That night, he and Woody are kidnapped and locked in Mackey's cruiser. He releases them into the woods on a small island. They come upon his decomposing victims, and Davey distracts Mackey while Woody tries to escape, but is unsuccessful. Woody is killed and Davey is stopped by Mackey, who says he wants to kill him, but won't so that Davey can live with the paranoia of his eventual return.
Davey is rescued later that night and returned to his parents. Emotionally scarred, Davey rides his bike on his route, where he sees Nikki leaving and Woody's house under foreclosure. He also sees Eats and Faraday trashing the disassembled treehouse, presumably angry with him over Woody's death. Riding up to Mackey's house (which is now plastered with police tape), he unfolds a newspaper, reading that the Cape May Slayer is still at large. Davey's final fate is unknown.
==Gallery==
7E7FF3B7-5400-431B-BC25-F61E6ECB7B0B.jpeg|Davey with Woody, Farraday, and Eats
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E679C40E-E393-4CFD-84FE-25ED242B149E.jpeg|Glancing back at his friends destroying their treehouse
A1791F16-6D27-4A74-8B93-5F4FEF78606B.jpeg|Looking at Mackey's house, presumably scarred for life
==Trivia==
* He seems to like newspaper conspiracies particularly.
* He was born in 1969.
* Davey seemed to have a good relationship with Mackey before suspecting him as the Cape May Slayer.
* He calls himself an amateur videographer, and is shown to have an interest in camera work.
* Although they live in the same area, the circumstances regarding how he met Woody, Eats, and Faraday are unknown.
* He was played by Graham Verchere.
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