A bus rolls through the remote mountains of Peru. Suddenly, a bomb explodes in the road, flipping the vehicle. As the passengers climb out of the wreckage, soldiers approach them; from a distance, Major Bludd watches, and thinks about his father, who lost his job when the factory where he worked shut down. Rolling a dead passenger off the burlap sack of coffee beans she's laying on, Bludd cuts it open to reveal the white packets concealed within. He gently licks the powder, to verify the contents, and thinks about his grandfather, who lost his farm to foreclosure.