When former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces Chris Vaughn (Johnson) returns to his small hometown in rural Washington he finds that the once peaceful idyll has been shattered by an influx of drugs and outbreaks of violence. Sensing that his wealthy former high-school rival Jay Hamilton (McDonough) is behind the closing down of the town's once thriving lumber mill Vaughn stands for election as the town's sheriff and once he has his badge takes his deputy (Knoxville) and a st