The bouncer, referred to as the mayor, checks a group of girls’ IDs before they head in. Before they go inside, one of them, the birthday girl, asks if he’ll buy her a shot. He politely declines, and the other bouncer tells him he fumbled. The mayor then thinks about how he doesn’t like the other bouncer very much. Soon enough, however, he decides to go inside, and the other bouncer eggs him on.

Inside, the mayor greets the L-shaped bar where most tables are occupied and plenty of people are dancing to pop music. He thinks about how his job is to spot and defuse any possible incidents that could break out here. He then thinks about how his girlfriend told him to get surgery on his eye so he can professionally fight again rather than just breaking up fights at a bar. Now, however, he spots a friend of his inside the bar, and they briefly catch up before he goes back to his girl.

The birthday girl, suddenly behind the mayor, asks him why he’s called that. He talks about his history of MMA fighting and how that was his nickname. She asks him why he doesn’t fight anymore, and he says an incident where his eye got poked caused him to stop. He then tells her that she reminds him of his ex, who’s now deceased, as she was murdered in a creek behind the bar. She offers to buy him a shot, and he says he’ll consider it for later.

The mayor heads over to a scuffle between a love triangle in the bar and tosses them out. In the bar’s parking lot, they argue about cheating and infidelity. The mayor and the other bouncer decide to leave it be, as it’s probably nothing to call the cops over. Still, the other bouncer is telling the mayor to act on the birthday girl, but back inside, he realizes that she’ll never be his ex. Instead, he heads to the bathroom to take a piss. Right outside of it, on a bulletin board, he sees his friend from earlier scribbling on it with a pen and laughing.

Later that day, the mayor pushes everyone out of the bar during closing time. He tells the other bouncer to hold down the fort for him as he leaves early. The mayor then goes out to the trailer where his friend from earlier lives. He goes up to the trailer’s door and tells his friend to come outside, as he must have lost his ID at the bar and now the mayor is returning it to him. Hesitantly, the friend comes out and sees the mayor with his fighting gloves on.

The mayor explains that his ex was found face-up dead in the creek with her front teeth knocked out. Not knowing what he’s referring to, the friend says he’s going back into his trailer, but the mayor soon punches him in the back of his neck. The mayor says that he caught the friend doodling on the ex’s poster on the bulletin board, blackening out her teeth, even though it’s not public information that her teeth was knocked out. The friend says he had nothing to do with caving the back of the girl’s head back in, but the mayor says he never mentioned that part of her death either. Knowing it was him, the mayor hits him over and over again.