She starts reading and sees that Jim sketched a map for her to find the cave where the money bag is hidden, together with the line 'this is for you and for your kids'. The manager at the logging site finds the note at the office and drives to town, giving it to Debbie. A heavy snow starts to fall, which will bury both men.

Jim accepts his fate, and lies peacefully.

Jim gets up and starts walking, but he has been severely wounded from the combination of the fall and blood loss after been shot two days earlier. The father is incapacitated, having broken his arm and leg. As he goes to shoot Jim, Jim spits up blood, and uses the distraction to tackle the man and push them both off a steep hill. Jim responds by telling the father that he killed his son. The father taunts Jim about how his daughter's death and his divorce, and threatens to kill Jim's son after he gets the money from Jim. The father captures Jim, forcing him to take him to the money at gunpoint. Whithout any further bullets for his revolver, Jim tracks the father and calls him out. He grabs the semiautomatic, but again it is empty after the shooting. The young man say to Jim that he killed his girlfriend, and despite his plea of 'being even' with Jim, Jim kills him with the revolver. Jim ambushes him and shoots him with his revolver, which causes the young man's semiautomatic to shoot and disable the pickup truck. The two head out to find Jim, but the son stays behind to urinate. Jim discovers that the woman was the son's girlfriend. Venturing further, he stumbles upon the last two robbers at the crew's vehicle: a father and son. He finds Debbie's car on the road, but it won't start. He wakes up the next morning and tries to start another fire, only to discover that the lighter doesn't work. Jim spends the night in the cave, burning some of the money to keep warm. He attacks the robber and gets into a brief scuffle, killing the man but falling into the river and losing the second robber's rifle. He finds another robber at the river and hides in a spot. Soon after Jim gets away from an attack by one of the robbers, whom he kills with the revolver, only to discover that the robber's machine gun has been emptied, but takes it anyway. The next day, he leaves a note for the foreman, takes a revolver and leaves, going into a section of the woods where he can't be tracked. Jim finds a logging site, and rests for the night in the office. He is shot in the shoulder and barely escapes. He returns to his RV, only to find that the robbers have set it ablaze. While hiding behind some trees, Jim watches helplessly as George is executed when Jim refuses to give them the money then hides again and moves again during dusk. Jim gets away, but George is shot in the leg. When the other four men from the hit's crew arrive they search the dead woman's body, while armed with semiautomatic rifles. Jim tries to convince George to turn back, but George refuses. Jim gets the cigarette butt and takes the bag of money near the dead woman's body, soon running into George, who is hunting game. Realizing he left a cigarette butt near the dead woman's body, he hurries out back into the woods, but is rude to Debbie on the way. Watching the television, he discovers that the woman was part of a five person crew that robbed $1.5 million from a casino and viciously killed three security guards, also injuring twelve civilians. Panicked, he flees the woods and goes to town's bar, where he orders shots of whiskey, then yells at the bartender when she jokes about him falling 'off the wagon'. He discovers that he's accidentally killed a young woman who says to Jim 'you are a dead man' before dying. One evening, while hunting, Jim shoots what he thinks is a deer. meeting, where he befriends George, an Iraq war veteran and Debbie's husband.

One night, after going to the local bar and considering drinking, he goes to the VFW's A.A. Having few relationships, he eats breakfast regularly at a diner where he shares a friendship with Debbie, a waitress and working class mother unhappy with her marriage and general life. Jim hunts 'game' (deer) for meat, and goes into town for his other supplies. One afternoon, while changing a tire, he begins to spit up blood and passes out, indicating he may have cancer. He is divorced and her ex-wife is now dead, while his daughter died in a freak accident at a young age (which Jim thinks he caused due to drunk driving). He is a former Marine who served in the Vietnam War and recovering alcoholic, being a year sober. Jim Reed lives in an RV near the woods of Maine during the winter.

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