Connie, an ex-marine, meets his eldest son, Jack, a state trooper, at a diner. Jack talks about a frequent bank robber in the area who they haven't caught. Connie asks about his other children: Chip, also a police officer, and Buzz, a prison guard. Connie has recently been fired from his job at the auction house and is short on money, but still managed to buy himself expensive hearing aids and insists on paying for their meals even though Jack tries to pay, out of concern for Connie's financial status.

After the meeting, Connie drives his pickup truck to a bank and robs it, wearing a ski mask, with a gun in his pocket. He asks the bank officer to look into the bag, where there is a note that reads: FILL WITH CASH. OWNER ARMED. He is careful to rob a bank in an area where his sons aren't stationed, where he doesn't think he'll run into them.

However, his car skids and crashes and he wakes up in the hospital with all three of them around him. They have discovered the bag with the note and the gun, all of which match the description of the reported crime. They are the only ones who know. They say he could spend the rest of their lives in jail. Buzz asks him why he did it and what they should do.

Connie says it's late and they should meet without him to talk about it in the morning--they'll do the right thing, whatever they decide. He feels unable to tell them how desperately he needed the money, wanting to maintain his status as the head of the family. The boys leave, then Buzz realizes they didn't check whether the gun, which they left with him, was loaded. They hear a shot go off from his hospital room.