A teenage boy riding a four wheeler on the beach is killed in broad daylight by a delusional and dangerous Marine veteran. A state away, Hank is literally in the middle of having sex with his new girlfriend when his old baseball coach and lifelong father figure Frenchie knocks on his door in the middle of the night. Frenchie tells Hank that his childhood best friend Lee killed a teenager on the beach, and recruits him to try to bring Lee in. Hank is hesitant at first, having washed his hands of the violence and immorality of the war that he and Lee had gotten involved in, but eventually agrees. He knows Lee and the state park where he is hiding out the best, and has the best shot of bringing Lee in, or bringing him down.

When Hank reaches the park, he reunites with Red, the third of Hank and Lee's childhood trio, and Lee's high school sweetheart. After a quick dip in the lake he had practically grown up in, Hank and Red are debriefed by Frenchie. Hank is to try to make contact with Lee while Red is to stay close but hidden in case of trouble. The two set off, and Hank finds Lee quickly, swimming out in the lake. He kayaks out there and chats with him, the two just catching up like old pals at first.

Soon, Lee's paranoia and delusions come to the surface, and he attacks Hank, correctly assuming that Hank has a gun and is there to take him out. He tries to drown Hank, and Hank blacks out, knowing he made a terrible mistake as he goes out. When he comes to he is on the beach with Red standing over him, and Lee is dead, hanging over the kayak not far out from the beach. Red says she had no choice, but Hank knows that if they were that close to the beach when she saw him Lee was probably bringing him in and didn't mean him harm. Still, he knows that Red did what she had to. Before she calls Frenchie, though, he asks her to wait a little longer, knowing Lee would want to end up resting in his beloved Negwegon lake.