He lives there in isolation and silence until coming across a crashed snowmobile and a seriously injured young woman, who gives her name as Melody.

Henry fends off the wolves who attempt to attack her, and begins to treat her wounds, extracting several splinters and shards of woods with the limited means he has at his disposal.

However, as the woman heals, he begins to grow suspicious of her lack of personal identity documents, cellphone, and investigates the area around the crash.

Upon seeing Henry sitting outside, back to her, seemingly fishing, she reassembles a gun hidden in her backpack and shoots him in the head.

She returns to Henry's cottage to find he has left her his copy of The Art of War along with the phone number of the person who hired him to kill her.