No Country for Old Men (2007)

In 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh is arrested in Texas. In custody, he strangles a deputy sheriff and uses a captive bolt pistol to kill a driver and escape in his car. He spares the life of a gas station owner who accepts a challenge and successfully guesses the result of Chigurh’s coin toss. Hunting pronghorns in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone bad. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican man begging for water, a stash of drugs in the vehicle and two million dollars in a briefcase. He takes the money and returns home. Feeling guilty, Moss returns to the scene that night with water. He is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes into a river. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in Del Rio, where he hides the briefcase in his room’s air duct.

Chigurh, hired to recover the money, arrives to search Moss’s home, where he uses his bolt pistol to blow the lock out of the door. Investigating the break in, Terrell County Sheriff Ed Tom Bell observes the blown-out lock. Following an electronic tracking device hidden in the money, Chigurh goes to Moss’s motel room and kills a group of Mexicans, who are waiting to ambush Moss, with his shotgun. Moss has rented a second room adjacent to the Mexicans’ room with access to the duct where the money is hidden. He retrieves the briefcase just before Chigurh opens the duct.