After choosing to hitchhike back to The City on Halloween night, a college student enters a vehicle driven by a mysterious person with the false belief that being the hitchhiker means you’re in control of the situation. Yet this quickly turns out to be false. When the student decides it is time for the car ride to end, the mysterious person reveals his agenda for the evening and forces the hitchhiker to accompany him on a night filled with murder, deceit, and secrets.

When he convinced himself he ran a safe distance away, all Arnie Walker wanted to do was head back to his university’s campus; the easiest way to do that was to hitchhike. Yet the car that pulls over happens to be driven by a man named Occam, whose mechanical mind allows him to see every outcome and consequence of every situation he faces. Now with Arnie in the car, Occam forcibly requires the young man’s assistance in killing five people who seem to have a puzzling connection to one another. On this journey, Arnie finds himself in the darkest parts of The City, meeting the most malevolent people, and hearing the secret beans of The City being spilled. What’s worse is that as the night progresses, Occam suspects young Arnie to be the one holding the secret that could help Occam link the five targets together. After all, where did Arnie run from before deciding to hitchhike?

Five Ways to Kill puts a twist on the universal belief on hitchhiking: be careful who you pick up from the side of the road. But when the person you should fear is the one pulling over, all bets are off as the night is not ending with a car ride back home, but is just beginning as it heads toward discovering the truth of what the ride is all about.