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  In 1931, the Bondurant brothers â Forrest (Tom Hardy), Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia LaBeouf) â are running a successful moonshine business in the Virginia Piedmont region of Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal manufacturing business with the assistance of Jack's disabled friend and engineer, Cricket (Dane Dehaan). Jack witnesses infamous mobster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) shoot dead a rival in broad daylight.
  Jack returns to the gas station, where Forrest hires dancer Maggie (Jessica Chastain) as a waitress. Shortly afterward, the gas station is visited by newly arrived Special Deputy Charley Rakes (Guy Pearce), accompanied by the Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Mason Wardell, the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy. Rakes demands a cut of profits from all bootleggers within the county, including him. Forrest refuses and threatens to kill Rakes if he returns. Forrest implores his fellow bootleggers to unite against Rakes, but they refuse.
  Meanwhile, Jack lusts after Bertha, daughter of the local Brethren preacher. He attends their church service drunk, embarrasing herself but piquing her interest. Jack walks in on a visit from Rakes to Cricket's house, and is beaten by him as a message to his brothers. That night, Forrest beats and throws out two customers who had been harassing and threatening Maggie. After Maggie resigns due to the unruly townsfolk and leaves, Forrest is ambushed by the two men who slit his throat. Maggie returns looking for Forrest but is beaten and raped by the men. She decides to keep the assault from Forrest.
  While Forrest recovers at a hospital, Jack decides to cross the county line with Cricket to sell their remaining liquor. They too are ambushed by the mobsters, led by Banner, but are spared when Jack reveals he is a Bondurant, whom Banner admires for their stance against Rakes. Banner reveals to Jack the address of his brother's assailants, who were previous employees of his and currently work for Rakes.
  Forrest and Howard later find, torture and kill the men and send one of their testicles to Rakes. Banner becomes a regular client of the brothers, who have expanded their operation with multiple large stills deep in the woods, increasing its profitability. Jack continues to court Bertha. Maggie decides to return to Chicago, but Forrest convinces her to stay and provides her with a spare room. They develop a romantic relationship. On a day trip, Jack decides to show Bertha the brothers' secret operation, but they are followed and ambushed by Rakes and his men. Howard, Jack, Cricket and Bertha all flee. The police take Bertha home but leave Cricket to Rakes' devices, who isolates and murders him, striking a deep blow to Jack and his brothers.
  After Cricket's funeral, the sheriff of Franklin County warns the Bondurants that Rakes and his men are blockading the bridge out of town, with Wardell calling in ATU agents to shut down the county's moonshine businesses. Jack speeds off in Cricket's car to confront Rakes. Howard and Forrest quickly follow to provide backup for Jack, to Maggie's chagrin. She reveals she had delived him to hospital after the attack and Forrest deduces that she had been assaulted as well. Jack arrives at the bridge but is wounded by Rakes. Howard and Forrest arrive and a shootout ensues, with Forrest and his driver also shot by Rakes. A large convoy of bootleggers then join the shootout on the brothers' side. Rakes is about to finish off the wounded Forrest but is shot in the leg by Wardell in an effort to halt the bloodshed. Rakes shoots Forrest several more times before trying to escape. An injured Jack and Howard confront Rakes and execute him together.
  Following the end of Prohibition in 1933, Wardell is arrested on corruption charges while the Bondurants have all married - Jack to Bertha, Forrest to Maggie, and Howard to a Martinville woman - with the brothers working in legitimate occupations. During a festive reunion at Jack's house, Forrest drunkenly ambles to a frozen lake and falls into the freezing water. Although he drags himself out, Forrest later dies of pneumonia, putting to rest the legend of his invincibility.
question: Who does Howard rally to help Jake?
answer: Forrest