Sam and Henry are home alone at their family's farm while their father is away at the market for several days. Sam, the younger of the brothers, has been playing outside when he turns and runs inside suddenly to find Henry. There is a man in the forest, Sam says, and he seems to be dead. Henry and Sam inspect the body together — the man is alive, but he's shot in the thigh and bleeding, and they decide to drag the man inside. Henry cleans the man's wound and they let him rest while they make some dinner. When the man wakes up, he tells them his name is Jacob, and he asks them to fetch something for him from the woods. In a nearby diner, Cort sips coffee and contemplates the situation. He and Jacob had almost pulled off a bank robbery, but Jacob had been shot in the leg and had limped off with the money. Cort needed to find Jacob, and more importantly, the bag of money. That night, Henry sits watching Jacob sleep, holding his father's shotgun. Henry has found Jacob's bag from the woods, which Jacob says the boy can keep and give to his father. Jacob desperately needs a doctor, but the closest one is ten miles away and the boys' tractor is broken. Jacob tells Henry that he needs to take Sam and leave, immediately, because a man is coming for the money in the bag and it's not safe for them to stay. In a bar, Cort finds a man and asks him for a ride. The man obliges, and when Cort asks him to stop briefly, the man pulls over and Cort withdraws a blade and stabs the man in his throat. He dumps the man's body by the side of a pond. Cort uses the car to investigate the nearby farms, where he suspects Jacob may be hiding. He stops first at a farm where a woman answers and says she has not seen any man fitting Jacob's profile. She stares for a long time at the truck Cort is driving, and when he presses her about this in a threatening way, she says that she knows the truck is Ed Dobber's Chevy. Jacob has died. Henry and Sam decide they will wait for their father to return the next day and dig a grave for him then. Suddenly, they see a man approaching the front porch. Henry tells Sam to run upstairs quickly and stay there. Henry answers the door and tells Cort that he and his brother have not seen anybody. Then, however, Henry pulls the bag of money from behind him and tells Cort to take the money and leave. Cort smiles and takes a gun out of his coat, pointing it at Henry's chest. There is a bang, but it comes from behind Henry — Sam has used their father's shotgun to kill Cort. The two boys drag Cort's body to the well and drop him in.