David Hargrove

David Hargrove was a stockbroker of Starkweather Financial. He was also the best friend of Corey Thompson and boyfriend of Emily Brandt.

On 16 December, David was working while eating left overs and drinking coffee. He later gets a call from an unknown customer named Mr. Dean but the call gets turned off, much to his dismay. His friend Corey cheers him up by announcing that this could be his only chance to ask out his love interest Emily, who is leaving the company. David went to the company's Christmas party after work. During the party, Emily left earlier, so he offered to drive her home. However, Corey asked for drove him home too, so the three got onto the car together.

On the way to Emily's home, Corey felt hungry, and he forced David to pull up at a local ATM, in order to get money for pizza. Corey and David entered the ATM to withdraw money, and shortly after, Emily joined them.

When the three were about to leave, they turned to see a hooded figure lurking outside. While Corey suggested they returned to the car, Emily and David were reluctant, believing the figure to be a robber. Although they were scared, they realized, though later proven wrong by David, that the figure couldn't get in without an ATM card.

Not long, the hooded figure murdered a local man who was walking his dog, prompting the three to call the police, only to realize they had left their cellphones in the car. While the three were panicking inside, the hooded figure cut off the heater in the ATM booth, effectively making it colder. David decided to reason with the hooded figure, and attempted to give him 500 dollars from him, a pair of valuable earrings from Emily, and a watch in return from Corey for their safety. While giving the money to the hooded figure, he ran back to his car, attempting to grab Emily's phone to alert the police. He is chased to the car, got the phone and realized the wires had been cut, in order to prevent the car from being driven. The hooded figure then attacked him by smashing out the passenger's side window. He escaped the car and was chased back to the ATM booth, unharmed, but droped the cellphone along the way. Then, Emily used her lipstick to write "HELP" on the ATM booth's window. The hooded man took the phone, the valuables and the wallet from the dead man.

As the three began to freeze, a security guard saw the sign and went to investigate, but was beaten to death by the hooded figure with a crowbar taken from David's trunk in the process, leaving them hopeless.

Another man with a similar coat to the killer entered the ATM, but Corey and David managed to kill him by strangling him. They later realized that the man was innocent and was only going to work, because he was the janitor. Afterward, Corey took his coat and became angry, then he attempted to leave the ATM booth, but was caught and stabbed by the hooded figure.

After several more hours freezing in the ATM booth, David and Emily realized Corey was still alive. They both ran out, and grabbed him, then managed to return to the ATM booth before the hooded figure got to them. While David and Emily attempted to stifle Corey's bleeding wound, the hooded figure began to fill the ATM booth with cold water, attempting to freeze them to death. Corey eventually died of blood loss and hypothermia. David and Emily concocted a plan to trigger the fire alarm to send for help, using a lighter found in the coat that Corey taken from the dead janitor, a trash can, and paper. Emily climbed on David's shoulders and managed to get the fire close enough to the fire alarm and is successful, but David slipped and Emily fell, smashing her to the signing table. After that, Emily was found floating on the water unconsciously by David, and he cried for her.

Before that, the man had driven David's car against the door before filling the ATM with water, and then he smashed the security guard's car into it. Angered, David attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail at the hooded killer, only to realized that it was not the killer, but the body of the killed security guard. Meanwhile, the police arrived but David was arrested while the killer gets away.

While David was being driven away, he saw several figures in similar parkas as the killer, still unsure of who the masked madman could be. The police found a video tape recorded the events within the ATM but the video has no sound and it is made to look like David, Emily, and Corey are robbing the ATM and killing witnesses. He also planted other evidence against them.

It's unknown if David was sent to jail or not, as he can defend himself by saying the truth. Since the killer wore a glove to prevent leaving his fingerprint on different places, and the video showed that David didn't wear any glove, so it would be impossible for David to not leaving his fingerprint if he was the killer. However, the movie never confirmed his fate, and implying that he was sent to jail. It's also unknown if he was fired or not.

Trivia

 * During the film, he mentioned about how he should've taken today off. Maybe if he did that, then he wouldn't have been framed.