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I dont know why this explanation isn't anywhere else (maybe bc its wrong), but this is what I thought: Steve and Michael are the same person.
Richard's keys are in the ignition bc he stole Richard's car after he killed him. Steve's dad talks about having the shop for 28 years- what did he do before that aside coming from nothing? Steve and Michael look a lot alike and when Steve makes all the weird faces and acts weirdly violent in the bathroom, I assumed it was his Michael side coming out. Also, Paul first started getting alarmed when the Steve said the witness was the town drunk from Paul's story. Here is it where we see Steve is goosing the details in his story. He also showed Paul the coaster from the Oak Room to show he was there, but said that police had the place all blocked off. [So somehow he was there and learned of this story, how else if he wasn't actually Michael. Paul also becomes visibly afraid of Steve at this point.] Steve's dad also talked about in his story being so upset about Steve running with scary people. Steve knew Paul didn't actually call Sully because he is likely friends with Sully and knew that wouldn't be the reaction if Paul called him. Thompson is also likely another friend of Steve's. This also explains why Paul handed over the ashes; he realized Steve was going to kill him and maybe the only way out of it was to give him what he wanted.
Not sure if anyone else caught the details with the watch. Toward the end of the movie, you see Steve staring at Paul's gold watch that looks exactly like his father's gold watch at the pig farm. My guess is that this is supposed to be another detail that links Steve and Michael to being to same person.
Meaning that Steve kills Paul and takes the watch back. You see it on the driver because it is actually him driving away. The timing of all of these stories are all of time order, and the main story of the movie itself is no different
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