After Lance seized their firearms, a group vows revenge—they blame him for lost men and the need to make more drugs. They plan to kill Lance at his mother's birthday, assigning one person to fetch “the stuff” and another to hide a jade statue so the party becomes a funeral. At the venue the matriarch insists Wynne and Henry attend despite staff warning they're locked up and would be mocked, provoking insults and threats. The conspirators move to action: a countdown begins — 36 seconds — and a practiced shot hits the bull's-eye, leaving the celebration seconds from violence.