No Country for Old Men Scene 22 Summary

  • We move up the floors of a shiny office tower in a big city. A private mercenary named Carson Wells (played by Woody Harrelson in fine form) struts into a fancy office. The man at the desk asks Wells if he knows Anton Chigurh by sight. Wells says yes and names the last time he saw Chigurh face to face.
  • The man behind the desk says that Chigurh is a loose cannon who needs to be taken care of, which sounds about right. But that's not his only motivation. We can tell by what he says that this man behind the desk is involved with the American side of the botched drug bust and now he wants Carson Wells to take out Chigurh.
  • The man behind the desks wants to know how dangerous Chigurh is. "Compared to what, the bubonic plague?" says Wells. In other words, pretty dangerous—but he still seems confident that he can kill Chigurh.
  • Before leaving, Wells says that he counted the floors on the office building from the outside and that one of them is missing. The man behind the desk sarcastically tells him that he'll look into it.