John Rambo is seen walking up to friend Delmar Barry's lakefront homestead in Washington State, having gotten the address from Barry after the war. At this time, the year is 1982. Rambo has been down-on-his-luck recently, unable to hold down a job and resorting to sleeping in the woods often. Life has been quite difficult to Rambo, partictularly because the country isn't exactly welcoming to returning Vietnam veterans, who they blamed for the failed war. Rambo decides to contact Barry so he may find a new lease on life and find somebody he knows so he can muddle through his troubled life. Rambo hitchhikes to the homestead and walks down a gravel road.