In college, Stacy was a star athlete on the downhill skiing team, but she had an accident on the slopes, shattering her leg. This ruined her athletic career and caused her to lose interest in college. She dropped out and returned to her hometown in upstate New York, where she tends the bar at Noonan's, a roadhouse with weekday specials. One Thursday afternoon, while Stacy and her boss Noonan prepare for Lobster Night, they talk to pass the time. Stacy tells Noonan about the most significant event in her life, which was not her skiing accident, but was actually the time she was struck by lightning two years before her accident. Since then, she's felt alone, different from everyone who hasn't been through the same thing. She says it had felt like being shot in the head. Noonan says he felt the same way when he had a close encounter with a bear that wrecked his campsite. He shot the bear but it escaped into the woods. As they end their conversation, customers begin to come in to the restaurant. That night is busier than normal, which stresses out Gail, the waitress. She threatens to quit, but Stacy consoles her and offers to help. Two high schoolers who wash dishes in the summers, the LaPierre brothers, do end up quitting after Noonan complains about them one too many times. Stacy, Gail, and Noonan manage to get everything in order. As the night draws on, Stacy takes a minute to look at the last lobster left in the tank. As she goes to pet it, Noonan appears and puts his hand near hers, startling her. He tells her that he wants to tell her something in the kitchen when she has a minute. Stacy is suspicious, aware that her relationship with her boss seems to have changed after she revealed that she had been struck by lightning. She suspects that he will want to hook up with her. She finds him attractive, but she never imagined anything happening between them because Noonan is much older than her, successful, and married. She decides that if he is going to ask her to have sex with her, she'll make him do it while the restaurant is busy, and she'll immediately quit. When she goes into the kitchen, Noonan asks if she wants to eat the last lobster with him after they close up for the night. Stacy sees through this and tells him off, but Noonan claims that he didn't mean anything by this and just wanted to eat lobster. He says he'll just eat it by himself and goes to get the creature from its tank. In the kitchen, he teases Stacy, trying to get her to boil the lobster. They are interrupted by commotion in the dining area. When they leave the kitchen, they see that everyone has left their seats and has flocked to the windows. Outside, a bear digs through Noonan's trash cans. Fed up, Noonan goes to get his gun. The customers are startled when he starts shooting the creature. It takes eight shots to kill the bear. When it's over, all the customers quickly pay their bills and leave. Gail quits, too. Stacy closes up early for the night. She finds Noonan in the kitchen, eating the lobster off the counter. He complains that he would've killed the bear sooner if he had a better gun. Stacy sees the gun behind him and picks it up. Noonan tells her not to mess with it because it's still loaded. She aims it at his forehead and fires, killing him. Stacy sits down on a stool and falls asleep, finally feeling relief for the first time since being struck by lightning. Meanwhile, the LaPierre brothers are making their way back to the kitchen to ask for their jobs back.