Fact1: Joe Ransom is foreman for small tree-poisoning crew in rural Texas, Fact2: Wade take money Joe witnesses, Fact3: Gary goes to Joe 's house to ask for job back, Fact4: Russell leaves friend 's house, Fact5: Joe returns home gets dog and returns to brothel
Output: Joe Ransom is a foreman for a small treepoisoning crew in rural Texas. A 15yearold drifter named Gary asks Joe for a job, and impresses him with his work ethic. The next day, Gary brings his alcoholic father Wade with him to work, but Wades attitude and laziness gets them both fired. Joe witnesses Wade beat Gary and take his money. Gary later goes to Joes house to ask for his job back. Joe agrees, and Gary begins working for him regularly, hiding his money from Wade. Willie Russell, a criminal with whom Joe has a longstanding feud, shoots Joe as he leaves a friends house. Later, Gary meets Willie and asks him for a ride home; when Willie makes lewd comments about Garys younger sister, Dorothy, however, Gary beats him up. Later, Wade beats to death a homeless man, stealing his liquor. Willie confronts Joe at a bar and asks him where Gary lives in an attempt to find him and seek revenge. Joe doesnt answer, and when Willie continues to press him, Joe beats him up. Joe tells the bartender to call the police before fleeing to a brothel. Joe leaves the brothel after getting spooked by an angry guard dog. Joe returns home, gets his dog and returns to the brothel, where he sets his dog on the guard dog, and has sex with a prostitute. He leaves with his dog, who has killed the guard dog. Two police officers stop him and hold him at gunpoint as he lets his dog out of his truck, and Joe challenges them to a fight. Joe is arrested, but released. Wade asks Gary for money, but Gary claims that he doesnt have any. They get into an argument that ends with Wade pulling a knife on Gary. Wade leaves, but promises to return and find the rest of Garys money. Gary visits Joe, who tells him that he once served 29 months in prison for assaulting three police officers. Gary agrees to help Joe look for his dog. They find the dog, and Joe gives Gary his lighter as a keepsake. Joe finds Wade walking along on the side of the road and invites him into his truck. Joe mentions that Gary wants to buy his truck, but when Wade insults Gary, Joe grabs him by the collar and threatens to hurt him if anything happens to the boy. Gary tells Joe that he has enough money to buy his truck, and they buy a new one. Joe tells Gary to keep the money he was going to use to buy Joes truck, and use it to get insurance instead. As Joe drives home, a patrol cop stops him and tries to make him take a breathalyzer test, but Joe refuses and drives away. An altercation ensues in which Joe beats the officer. A higherranking officer, a friend of Joes and a fellow excon, visits Joe and says the patrol cop had it coming, but warns him to keep his nose clean. Gary arrives at Joes house, his face bruised. Gary asks to borrow his truck, and Joe asks what happened. Gary reveals that Wade beat him up, stole his truck and left with Dorothy, intent on pimping her out to Willie. The two of them go after Wade. Meanwhile, Willie pays Wade 30, and prepares to rape Dorothy. Joe arrives and subdues Willie, and Gary leaves with Dorothy. Willie begs an unmoved Joe for his life, but as Joe prepares to kill him, one of Willies thugs shoots him in the leg. Joe kills Willie and the thug, and limps towards Wade, who is standing on a nearby bridge. He tries to shoot him, but misses. He attempts to shoot Wade again, but finds he is out of bullets. Wade asks Joe if hes his friend, and when Joe doesnt answer, leaps off the bridge to his death. Gary arrives and embraces Joe as he dies. Later, Gary is shown to have inherited Joes truck and dog, and he is given a new job replanting the same forest that Joe and his crew killed.