Synopsis/Details
Chris Cutter is a sharp, unremarkable guy who graduated with a head full of ambition and a wallet full of nothing. Married young, two kids, behind on rent, and stuck in a dead-end job he can't stomach, Chris has every reason to say no when his college buddy Jake Rhodes — a handsome, charismatic drug dealer living the good life — offers him work. He says no. Then Christmas comes, the landlord comes, and his pride finally breaks. One run. Just one.
The job is almost elegant: a Salvation Army van stuffed with marijuana hidden beneath gift-wrapped toys, driven cross-country to a Kansas City distribution house. Chris survives a gas station full of cops, a DEA checkpoint, and a near-death encounter with a fish tank full of triggerfish — and comes home flush, swagger restored, diamond earrings for his wife. He quits his soul-crushing office job and tells himself he'll stop. He doesn't.
Two years later, Chris is comfortable, confident, and completely in too deep. When a second run goes sideways at a Kansas checkpoint and the dogs find the hidden compartment, the DEA comes calling with a deal: give them Jake, walk free. Jake's lawyer arrives first with a counter-offer: keep quiet, do eighteen months, and your family gets taken care of. Chris agrees — until Jake personally pays a visit to intimidate him into silence, and Missy changes the locks. Humiliated, threatened, and locked out of his own life, Chris makes a choice: he walks into the DEA field office and asks to burn it all down.
