He squeezes the trigger and it fires the bolt into the man's skull, killing him. Chigurh then asks the man to hold still and presses the captive bolt pistol attached to the compressed air tank against the puzzled driver's forehead. ![]() He politely asks the man to step out of the car. After cleaning himself up in the station bathroom, Chigurh steals a squad car and once on a desert highway, uses the car's lights and siren to stop a random motorist ( Chip Love) driving a Ford sedan. ![]() The deputy has his back to Chigurh, who sneaks up behind him and just as the deputy hangs up the phone, uses the handcuff chain to garrote the deputy. The deputy thinks it may be an oxygen tank, but it is actually a device used to kill cattle in the slaughter house. He tells the Sheriff about an odd device in Chigurh's possession (a captive bolt pistol). They return to the empty police station, where the deputy calls Sheriff Bell. Along a desert highway, Anton Chigurh ( Javier Bardem) is arrested by a deputy ( Zach Hopkins). In a voice-over, the local sheriff, Sheriff Bell ( Tommy Lee Jones), tells of the changing times: in the old days, some sheriffs never wore guns, as did his late father, who was the sheriff before him in the modern day and age, however, Bell once sent an unrepentant teenage boy to the electric chair who had killed a girl simply because he wanted to kill someone, had been "fixin'" to do it for some time, and would do it again if he had the chance. The film opens with a shot of desolate, wide-open country in West Texas in June 1980. Wells knows Chigurh well and knows that he will not take too kindly to anyone else brought in on his job. One other person added to the mix is Carson Wells, hired by the same person that hired Chigurh also to retrieve the money, as their employer feels that Chigurh has gotten out of control. As such, Bell tries to find Moss solely to protect him from whoever is after him. Bell finds evidence that Moss has the money and that someone, who has left a trail of carnage behind him, is after Moss and the money. Bell, a third generation sheriff, has of late contemplated his professional future solely because of the notion that he and his like have not been able to do anything to control the increasing violence of the region. Also on both their trails is Terrell County Sheriff Ed Tom Bell and his naive deputy Wendell. ![]() Chirgurh quickly learns that Moss has the money and is on the run. Chigurh, in deciding who should live or die in his day to day life, also uses his own psychopathic set of principles. ![]() A person hired to retrieve the money is Anton Chigurh, who indeed will kill anyone, including innocent bystanders, necessary to get to his end goal, with a high pressure air pistol his weapon of choice especially as it leaves no bullet as evidence. As such, he not only tries to protect himself in the process of trying to find out who will be after the money, but also Carla Jean by sending her away. What he finds are all the players left at the scene dead or near death and a satchel filled with $2 million which he takes, despite knowing that someone will be looking for the money and is probably willing to kill for it. While out hunting down by the US-Mexico border, good ol' Texas boy Llewelyn Moss, a welder by day who lives in a trailer park in Sanderson with his wife Carla Jean, comes across what is a drug deal gone wrong.
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