When John Martense is leaving the prison, he narrates that he's has spent four years there, when he meets Knaggs for the first time, he then claims to have been in prison for five years.
Whilst the storyline, supposedly, takes place within the U.S.A., the red & white car [885-412] seen outside the church has a national identification sticker of "RO" [Romania], where the filming location took place.