Local law enforcement (notably police detectives played by Zach Villa and Ed Quinn) show no doubt on the matter. They promptly arrest 19-year-old Clay Gibbons (Jackson A. Dunn), whose car was seen speeding from the scene, and who’d previously spewed Holocaust-denying bigotry at community members. Still, he and his father (Jake Busey) claim they were at home together when the shooting occurred. And Rabbi Mo, having already had a tense yet tentatively bridge-building interaction with Clay, thinks the kid is merely a “troubled teen” whose flirtation with local white power groups wouldn’t have led to murder.
the movie has a wignat teenager framed for murder who the rabbi helps
Some of these figures find themselves on the wrong end of a bullet’s trajectory long before the rabbi, his entire family and a few remaining allies must barricade themselves against a climactic siege — one orchestrated by those they’d assumed could be trusted to uphold the law. By then, it’s all too clear that this whole morass is “not about Jew hatred, it’s about money,” as Mo puts it.