[3] A heat-battered young man, "Kid," wanders a desert terrain (implied to be near the California/Mexico border) with a metal suitcase full of money, a machine gun, and a bullet wound in his arm.

Collapsing, he is found by Charles Dump, a former supervisor for a now-desolate mining community nearby, who initially steals his suitcase and leaves him for dead.

The three men proceed to play mind games with each other, Dump trying to sow doubt between the longtime partners, while Kid tells Mr. Sunshine that when he did try to hop a train to get away from the heist, he had been shot by an unknown party.

After Dump tries to steal away in the early morning with their money, but gets interrupted by the men, he later tries to leave town on a freight train, but a security bull beats him off.

Driving further away and stopping, he opens the metal case, and sees it is weighted with bricks and a note reading, "Sorry old man," and turns around to go back to the camp.