The Drop

Bob Saginowski tends a neighborhood bar run by his cousin Marvin Stipler, which the Chechen mafia uses as a "drop" for illegal money. Marv ridicules Bob for commemorating the tenth anniversary of Richie "Glory Days" Whelan's unsolved disappearance by giving Whelan’s friends a free round of tequila. Bob finds a pit bull pup abandoned in a garbage can outside the home of a woman named Nadia, and they rescue the battered dog together. When the bar is robbed by two masked gunmen, Marv is annoyed when Bob tells NYPD Detective Torres that one robber wore a broken watch. Recognizing Bob from church, Torres questions his reluctance to take communion. Naming the dog Rocco, Bob bonds with Nadia, who offers to care for Rocco when Bob is at work. Chechen mobster Chovka Umarov threatens Marv and Bob to recover his stolen money. Meeting with Fitz, one of the thieves, Marv is revealed to have orchestrated the robbery, and a discussion with his sister Dottie reveals that he is desperate to pay for their father's life support. Marv grows paranoid, and he and Bob find a bag outside the bar containing the stolen money and a severed arm with the broken watch, apparently delivered by the Chechens. Rocco's owner visits the bar, hinting intimate information that he knows Nadia. Marv informs Bob that the man is Eric Deeds, who has long claimed to have killed Richie Whelan. Bob and Marv return the money to the Chechens, who tell them that the bar will be the drop site on the night of the Super Bowl. When Fitz refuses to rob the bar again on the night of the drop, Marv kills him and recruits Deeds instead. Soon after, Bob confronts Deeds, who has previously demanded $10,000 in exchange for Rocco. Without payment, he has threatened to reclaim the puppy and kill Bob. Bob also checks in with Marv. Sensing Marv's plan, Bob warns him not to do something desperate again. On the day of the Super Bowl, Marv claims to be ill and takes the day off from work. Bob retrieves cash hidden in his basement and waits for Deeds, who instead breaks into Nadia's home and forces her to go to the bar with him. There, Bob hides his money and a pistol, and receives numerous deposits of illegal cash throughout the night. Marv lines his trunk with plastic and waits near the bar, which is eventually empty except for Deeds and a frightened Nadia, who warns Bob that Deeds has a gun. Bob offers the $10,000 for Rocco but Deeds refuses it, instead threatening to harm Nadia if Bob does not open the time lock safe. Bob explains that years earlier, Marv was a loan shark skimming money from the Chechens. A customer with a large debt won a casino jackpot and paid Marv everything he owed. Marv seized the opportunity to use the customer's money to cover what he had stolen from the Chechens, ordering Bob to kill the man and dispose of the body. Bob reveals that the man in the story is Richie "Glory Days" Whelan, countering the rumor that Eric was the one who killed him. Deeds denies Bob's story in an effort to protect his malicious reputation, and Bob mocks him before shooting him dead and disparaging Deeds's character to his expired corpse. A frightened Nadia asks Bob if she can leave, which Bob allows and reassures her that no one will ever hurt her again. The Chechens arrive to dispose of Deeds's body and kill Marv, assuring Bob he is not alone and making him the bar's new manager.