Following a grueling day of work, firefighter Jeremy Thomas Coleman (Josh Duhamel) and his co-workers contemplate ending the day with a case of 35-year-old Scotch. Jeremy enters a convenience store to buy snacks, but is interrupted by David Hagan (Vincent D'Onofrio), an Aryan Brotherhood crime boss. He accuses the store owner of refusing to buy protection from one of his henchman. The store owner says he buys protection from the Crips.