It's not his first time at this seedy rodeo. Joe gathers together the tools he will need. He works for a private detective as a hired gun, although his preferred weapon is a hammer (as Ames explains in the novella's typically dark laconic tone: "Left very little evidence, excellent in close quarters, and seemed to frighten everyone.") Joe is hired to rescue a Senator's underage daughter ( Ekaterina Samsonov) from a sex trafficking ring, run out of a sleek townhouse. Joe lives at home in Brooklyn taking care of his frail elderly mother ( Judith Roberts). Awful things have occurred, but she doesn't let us see it.) (The sequence is reminiscent of the chilling opening of Ramsay's 2002 film "Morvern Callar," even down to the closeup of a cheap gold necklace with a girl's name in swoopy gold script. Ramsay does not allow us to see beyond the tight periphery of the frame. We are in the aftermath of some terrible event. In the first scene, Joe is only shown in fragments: his meaty hands pick up some ominous-looking objects, a roll of duct tape, a bloody hammer.
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