Just as Eric is getting into his car the man shouts from the window that he can tell him about the guy that lived there before him if Eric will buy him a beer. The man denies knowing the name & tells Eric to get lost. Eric tells the man that he is looking for someone named Michael Roth & that this apartment was his last known address. He does & a very grumpy man answers the door & cusses him out for disturbing him. We see Eric sitting outside an apartment building, looking as if he's trying to decide whether to go knock or not. She is witchy to him as he attempts to make small talk while buying his tequila but finally thaws a little & is slightly friendlier just as he is leaving. Billy startles Kate when he finally gets her attention & she chews him out "for sneaking up & hovering over" her. Eric arrives at Vicente's store to buy a drink but the clerk, Kate, has headphones on & doesn't hear him come in. Carl tells Billy that Eric is cooking meth (bad credit card, buying chemicals) & he bears watching. Next we see Carl & Billy watching Eric as he comes out of a store with a bottle of Drano. When Eric leaves he buys a piece of cake & has it sent to Seth, walking out just as the waitress tells Kate who paid for it. Next we see Kate & Seth at a diner counter while Eric eats a booth nearby where he hears Kate tell Seth she can't afford to buy him dessert. Then it shifts to a newswoman eating lunch with her cameraman at a highway rest area, complaining that she is always sent to cover local, feel-good stories & expressing her desire to go national with her career. The doctor is telling Kate her son is autistic because he's not talking & Kate rejects this idea telling the doctor Seth will talk when he's ready. Scene shifts to a doctors office where the mother Kate & has brought her son Seth. Eric hears an odd noise & notices that his toilet is overflowing. Then we see Eric in his room looking at an old photograph of a young man with the name Mike Roth & the date 1969 on the back. Carl & Billy attempt to make conversation with Eric but Eric is short-tempered & says he just wants to get to his room & rest. The clerk, Billy the off-duty deputy in civilian clothes, starts to call the card company but Eric talks him out of it & pays cash for his room. As the young man, Eric Norris, checks in he attempts to use a credit card which is denied. The scene shifts to the young man arriving at a roadside motel, checking in just deputy Carl arrives to sit in the lobby. Carl argues back that he's served the county well for almost 30 years. The sheriff arrives at his office & begins to berate another deputy Carl, whom we have just witnessed drinking on the job, for failure to do his job properly. We see scenes of several characters as they begin their day a mother & her son getting breakfast, a woman watching morning news (where the mention that is hasn't snowed on Christmas for 40 years), Vicente the store owner opening his store & a young man driving an older model convertible muscle car down the highway. Then a graphic appears introducing a flashback to 39 hours earlier. As he & his deputy Billy gather behind his car to take stock of the situation it begins to snow. After a brief flurry of shots the sheriff calls for a ceasefire. The movie opens as gunfire erupts at Vicente's Liquor Mart in El Camino, Nevada.
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