On a snowy New Year's Eve, a woman enters a train station to retrieve a satchel full of cash from a coin-operated storage locker. Later that night, she drives into an empty parking lot and exits the car to place a call. As she anxiously smokes, she tells the other party she will wait only a few more minutes. After she gets back in her car, a man is seen in the rear-view mirror, in the backseat, unnoticed by her. When she catches sight of him, she is strangled, and her left ring finger is removed.