On 7 September, the day the Maryland team checked out of the Valencia in Laurel, Atta met Al-Shehhi and a third man at Shuckum's Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill in Hollywood. Atta played video games and drank what the barman recalled was cranberry juice for four hours at one end of the bar, while Al-Shehhi and the other customer knocked back cocktails and seemed to argue.