A twelve-year-old girl named Nancilee walks into a Waffle House alone at 3AM on a Thursday morning. Sandy, a waitress, takes the girl's order and makes sure that she has money with her. Soon, a forty-year-old man comes into the restaurant and takes the young girl back with him to his car. Sandy and Tim, Sandy's ex-husband and another Waffle House employee, watch them uneasily. The girl seemed to know the man, but the whole situation seems fishy; they watch as the two drive away. Half an hour later, a cop named Tony stops by for his early morning coffee, and when told about the young girl and the man, Tony calls the police station. They inform him that the girl was spotted jumping out of the man's car near the freeway. When the man jumped out to chase her on foot, the girl hopped over a railing and landed on the freeway below. She was immediately hit and killed by an eighteen-wheeler. Tim heads home to his apartment to get some rest. Sandy calls him after a bit, saying that they should go find the girl's family and offer their condolences. Tim is not sure that's a good idea — it didn't help the two of them to talk to strangers when their daughter Iris died — but Tim goes along with Sandy anyway. Tim and Sandy meet a group of people gathered on the porch of Nancilee's grandmother's house — Nancilee's grandmother was her primary caretaker — but the family seems uninterested in engaging with Tim and Sandy. As they leave, they overhear one of the men mentioning that Nancilee's grandmother is currently at a club. Tim and Sandy return to Waffle House for their shifts, and a news reporter shows up looking for someone to interview. Sandy refuses, so the news reporter ends up talking to an elderly couple who are late night regulars at Waffle House and were present the night before. Tim watches the report later that night; the reporter rails on everyone who was in Waffle House for doing nothing to help Nancilee. She also mentions that Tim was present, and how he, only three years ago, was charged with drunk driving that resulted in the death of his daughter Iris. Nancilee had met her kidnapper online, apparently, and he had claimed to be someone else. He was a known child molester. Later, Sandy comes over to Tim's apartment and shows him a revolver. Tim is shocked. Sandy says Tim needs to kill Nancilee's grandmother to make her pay for her negligence. She says that Tim owes her this.