Christmas Crossfire

[first lines]

Samuel: [narrating] Out here in the country we're patient. We don't talk much, because nothing ever happens. But when something does happen, everybody talks. And everybody knows. And they'll never forget it, until you're six feet under.

Samuel: Lots of folks can't handle that sort of thing, so they try not to care. Not even death scares them. Quite the opposite. They crave death. Nobody can escape it.