The link between both victims is the Garden, a pious society offering Christian answers to youngsters' contemporary question-its emblem being a Phoenix, which both Will's suicide note that says, 'I lost my way between Gethsemane and Calvary,' and a message on King's door hat says, 'Life born of fire,' refer to. Mark's church after waving a revolver at Reverend Francis King, who is himself found tortuously murdered by a hot poker in the head the next day.
Shortly after the popular and decent student Will McEwan shoots himself in the head in St. Lady Hugh, the intolerant Bible-fanatic president of Oxford's Mayfield college, turns against anything gay.