Jacob slowly agrees to tell Hank s story. Because Hank is a respected figure, the sheriff buys his version of events, even though they don t make much sense. Then an FBI agent shows up looking for the missing plane. Hank wants to return the money to the plane and just return to his old life, but his wife bitterly complains about how painfully empty and ugly life her life is with Hank. That pebble in her shoe has begun to burn.
Hank sees no way but to go forward.
Then it comes out that it s a fake FBI agent who s come to find the plane, but Hank can t let the sheriff go out into the woods alone with the fake agent to be killed. Hank desperately stalls for time to get a gun from the sheriff s office. He finds a gun, but not the right bullets. Then bullets and gun. The narrative tension here goes straight from Hank to the audience.