The action switches to America, and the bleak deserts of the West, where a burned-out, small-town Sheriff must come to grips with tragedy: the gruesome slaughterhouse that blights his town, and the misery that has befallen his own life. Can a broken man find the strength to face a lethal intruder in the harsh and unforgiving badlands? And what is the connection to the Russian special forces leader, as he strides ever onward on his fateful path?