Death walks hand in hand with Chigurh wherever he goes, unless he decides otherwise.

If everything you`ve done in your life has led you to him, he may explain to his about-to-be victims, your time might just have come.

`You don`t have to do this,` the innocent invariably insist to a man whose murderous code dictates otherwise.

Occasionally, however, he will allow someone to decide his own fate by coin toss, notably in a tense early scene in an old filling station marbled with nervous humor.