Following the hand drawn map she has, Barb struggles to find her way and stops at a remote cabin to ask for directions. The guy there is defensive but points her in the right direction.
Later while Barb fishes she witnesses something terrible happening and recognises the guy from the cabin as the perpetrator. With no mobile phone signal and now properly snowed in Barb decides to do something about it.
CW: violence and dark melancholic themes
This thriller from Brian Kirk is a kind of bottle episode with Minnesota nice Barb dealing with desperate kidnappers. They aren't massively competent but then she isn't an action hero and they are pretty damn desperate. We never learn their names but Judy Greer is kind of terrifying as "the wife" with nothing to lose.
The cold is both a weapon, character and limitation with the characters moving between the fishing hut on the lake, cabin and their cars spending as little time outside as possible.
This limitation is used to introduce us to Barb in flashback and why she is who she is.
Oddly melancholy for what could have been done as a straight action thriller it's a highly effective use of a simple setup with a deeply emotional payoff 7/10.