

As Nels leaves the property in his snowplow to continue his work, White Bull jumps into the cab, and the two men drive away together with both being satisfied for having their sons avenged. He dies when found by Kehoe police detectives Kimberly Dash and Gip. Viking, attempting to drive away, is trapped when Nels uses heavy machinery to impale Viking's car with a shorn tree trunk, allowing White Bull to shoot Viking in the chest. Both gangs arrive at Nels's workplace, and most of them are killed in the ensuing shootout. Though promised US$10,000 for the tip, he too is killed after his disclosure. Nels' identity is revealed to Viking by the prep school's janitor. Nels treats the boy well and protects him from the violence to come. Meanwhile, Nels kidnaps Viking's son from his prep school before White Bull's men can do so, in order to draw Viking into an ambush. This is insufficient to placate White Bull, who shoots the messenger. Viking tries in vain to stop the gang war by using one of his own men as a scapegoat and sending White Bull the man's head. Since Brock is dying of rectal cancer, he claims responsibility for the hits to protect his brother. He thinks the Eskimo meant Brock Coxman, and he takes Brock in his car. Viking does not appreciate the Eskimo's "lack of professional ethics" and subsequently kills him. The Eskimo agrees to kill Viking for US$90,000, but decides he can get another US$90,000 from Viking by informing him that Coxman has hired him for the hit. Brock tells Nels that killing Viking requires a hired assassin, and he recommends a transplanted African-American hitman known as "The Eskimo". Nels seeks advice from his brother Brock, once a mob enforcer known as Wingman, and learns about Viking. This drives White Bull to seek vengeance, and he orders his men to kidnap Viking's young son in retaliation, which starts a gang war. Viking has one of Bull's gangsters murdered, not knowing it is White Bull's only son.

The cartel's psychopathic leader, drug lord Trevor "Viking " Calcote, first suspects that these deaths are the work of his rival White Bull, a Ute with whom he has so far avoided conflict. Nels's wife Grace (angry at her husband's seemingly cold lack of grief) leaves him. He decides to seek vigilante justice, makes a sawed-off rifle, and kills three members of the cartel, dumping their bodies in a nearby river.

He learns that his son was murdered by a Denver drug cartel. After being awarded Citizen of the Year by the fictional ski resort of Kehoe, Colorado, snowplow driver Nels Coxman's quiet life is disrupted when his son dies from a forced opium overdose.
