Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
Main character suddenly has a pet dog in the second act. Less than two minutes later, dog jumps a villain to protect protagonist and is stabbed to death. Shots of very fake looking dog corpse. Entire scene takes less rhan three minutes.