Martin has notice how Mickey and his pals are making fun of his idol. of his hero. he disagree with those motherfuckers. Martin is tired of all the bullshit on this town. he feels ready to follow the footsteps of his hero. he is about to go to the next level. he wants to punish those whom dare to do wrong to his hero.
Rig is on a chair next to crazy Martin. he regrets ever listening to that fanboy. he keeps asking for autographs. he even talks about a club on Rig's name. Rig tries to listen to the math teacher.
Rig looks at the calendar bored and tired. he still has some bruises. Joan looks at him with a silly smile. she takes his right hand and she puts his hand in her pussy. Rig looks at her in confusion. his hand gets wet. Rig touches her soft pussy softly.
Joan starts to make strange sounds, like the sound of a mice. his face is all read. she lets go of his hand. Rig looks at his hand in disbelief. the class is over. Rig leaves school early trying to avoid the annoyance of Mickey and his squad of retards.
Rig is in his way to his home. he then receives a call from Martin telling him that he wants to be his sidekick. Rig and Martin start to talk about many topics. one example is their favorite movie, or show. they even talk about their favorite cartoon.
Rig tells him that he used to watch since he was a child, this cartoon with horror elements about a purple-pinkish dog. they keep talking until Rig arrives at his home. he hangs up. Jordan is looking at him worry about the fan.
"that boy, your fan. he is going to be a problem soon. I can see it coming. there is noway that you can be so casual with him."
Rig can see that his friend is right. but he then starts to think. that for the operation that he wants to do, he needs of more help. they try to come to a mutual understanding. they then enter inside the house.
.....
Samuel is on some dark alley. he isn't alone. Johnny and Louis are at his side. they are beating up a rich couple. they don't need their money. they are just doing it for fun.
Samuel tells them that they must be ready at midnight. Samuel tells him that today is the day in which he would get his revenge. Louis asks him if they are only going to kill Rigoberto, or the whole family.
"there would be no bastard with his last name."
"but, he has a younger sister. she is about the same age of your sister. are we really going to kill her? just asking, you know for.... in case you may feel pity for the little gal."
"that is not my fault, but hers to be born. if your heart or your conscience try to fuck it up. see it this way. they are a family of brown pigs. and we are the butchers. simple, we are just doing our given job."
"I no gal killer. that one is yours, not mine."
they keep arguing about who is going to kill the sister. Johnny didn't wanted to touch any kids nor girls. Louis wanted to do more than just kill her. if there are any questions. yes he is in one of those lists.
Samuel with a creepy smile looks at the sun. he can picture the perfect scenario. everything was playing on his mind. he smiles on a disturbing way.
"this time big bro. this time I would do it for you. and I would prove that...."
he stops for a second. he looks at his idiot friends fighting among themselves. Johnny that refuses to include the girl on the plan. Louis with a disturbing mind.
"I will prove that I am a mother fucking Robbins. one of the oldest families in the business, in this fucking town. one of the most feared last names in this fucking town."
Samuel gives them instructions. he explains how the day must end. he can't live another day without taking vengeance. to kill Rig is to honor the name of his big brother. he can't wait until he takes action.
.....
detective Brandon Williams is walking in a dangerous alley. he looks around of him. there are many eyes looking at him. he takes his gun out. he makes sure it is loaded in front of everyone whom is looking at him. he shows the pistol to scared them.
Detective Williams walks without looking back, to show them that he fears no one. the Detective keeps walking. he looks at Tiziano Fierro whom is in the middle of the street. both of them seem to know each other. Brandon frowns with a grumpy gaze.
"it has been a long time since we spoke last time."
Tiziano takes a cigar from his pockets. with a lighter he lights up the cigar. Brandon puts his pistol back on his pockets. there is a long minute of silence. they look at each other with resentment.
"you seem older. do you remember when we used to be kids? and we used to dream of a greater good for this world. sadly, in the midway you forgot what we swear to become. now you are what you hated the most. you are scum."
"don't do that. don't, it is so annoying that hero dialogue. I only saw that the only way to survived in a world consumed by its ideology, was to become the alpha dog. in other words. I had done what needed to be done. for someone in the world in which everything is definite by appearances and money."
"in what way or form can that be important? so you prefer to be someone, to be remember. even if that means to be remember as the worst criminal in the world. instead of been a man loyal to the law. to do a difference in this rotten world."
"I tried to be a law man once. the truth is simple, there is no righteousness in this world. there is no good in here. those whom do good end up dead, and those whom do wrong are never punish. that is the reality of the world in which we live...."
Tiziano didn't realize that he was screaming. he felt gravely offended by Brandon's choice of words. how can he call himself a friend. Tiziano is out of air. once he can breath normally. he keeps going with his speech.
"....this is not a just world. it is time for you to understand, that I get tired of losing my time trying to save those whom don't wish to be saved. I decided that I wanted easy money and lots of power. so I came here and I build an empire. I did it because I could...."
Tiziano takes another momentary break. he thinks about the old days. there is nothing to change what is done. Brandon will never be able to see him as a friend. the old days are over now. their friendship is mostly air by now.
".... no one was decent enough to even try to stop me. not even now that I am so powerful. you are the only one whom has ever intended to stop me, you can see this like a social experiment in which society fail to pass a test, it is so simple."
Brandon refuses to accept the words of his friend. he decides to leave. on his way out he is stopped by Tiziano's henchmen. apparently Tiziano has a last thing to say. even if Brandon doesn't want to hear it. Tiziano feels the duty to say it as a goodbye.
"the world would consume you. you are too good for it. you are not strong enough to defy the course that society is taking into it's own destruction. please I am warning you, if you don't give up on this fearless quest. you would end up dead soon."
"is that all you have to say?"
"listen, damn it. there would be no one to help you, from all those whom you saved. no one would offer a hand to you. that path that you are taking is a lonely path in which heroes end up bleeding out on the streets like dogs."
"thanks for the warning. but my quest isn't over. not jet. there is much for me to do."
"please take this words as the last advice from a childhood friend."
"I know. sadly, I can't be like you. I can never go against my code. this is the way it was meant to be. if that is my destiny I would take it even if it is cruel. I will take it all with a smile. I want to be proud of the righteous life I took. I can gladly say that I did my best to destroy the evil."
Brandon furiously looks at the teary eyes of his childhood friend. Tiziano isn't as strong of spirit as him, to live a life like that one. Tiziano can't make a sacrifice without feeling broken on body and spirit. he can't live the life of a warrior of justice.
Brandon leaves in silence with so much to say, but nothing else to say at the same time. he feels disappointed of his friend's weak mentality. one thing is true. not anyone can become a warrior of justice like him. it is a long and tiresome journey.
the journey of justice is one with more injustice, than justice. it is a journey with so little equilibrium on the balance. it is a road full of struggles and storms. it is the battle that only those who seek true justice, or are strong of will can take.
.....
midnight.
Rig and Jordan are in the middle of the woods burying another body. Rig feels pride of his actions and efforts to punish evil doers. he isn't really a true vigilante, but it is the excuse he uses to justify his actions. to justify all the killing.
"well it took so long. finally we are back on the path that we were meant to cross."
Jordan doesn't feel pride in killing even if they were criminals, or pure madness. it didn't feel right for him. in his mind he was just doing the same thing that those whom they are killing did in their life. their acts are of cruelty and madness.
they go back to the car. Rig is driving. in the way Jordan thinks about leaving. but he doesn't find the right words. he looks at Rig.
"I know that you want to leave. you don't have to deny it nor hide it from me. we are friends after all. I get why you are leaving. I confess that I feel guilty for that, sorry."
Rig gives some money to Jordan. he is confuse.
"how? since when you knew? why you didn't say anything before?"
"seems like you forgot something important. I am no idiot. you are so obvious. I wanted you to tell me first. I will miss you man, now take that money and live the life that you want for you and those kids that you call your siblings. I hope you get your happy ever after."
Jordan is surprise. he takes the money. they keep talking until they arrive at Rig's house. there is a suspicious car in the middle of the road.
"be careful, they are here for me."
Rig takes a pistol. they get out of the car slowly. Jordan walks with a knife towards the front door. Rig goes to the back door. they hear a shot and Rig runs inside of the kitchen.
Rig looks at Johnny in the floor bleeding from his neck. Jose Miguel is on the floor holding a shotgun bleeding with a knife on his left leg. Johnny is crying silently. he is bleeding a lot. he knows he is running out of time.
Rig keeps walking. he gets in the living room. Louis is there holding his sister. his right hand is holding a gun aiming at her head. Jordan walks slowly behind him.
"if any of you do as little as walk two millimeters forward. I blow her fucking brains off."
Louis looks at Jordan. he moves for a moment his finger away from the trigger. Rig takes the shotgun and with it he shots at the right arm of Louis. Louis left go of the girl. she runs to the kitchen. Louis screaming in pain looks at his flesh and bones.
Rigoberto shoots at Louis' crotch. he falls on his knees in pain. he is unable to speak. he grabs pieces of his flesh from the floor. he cries and screams like a wounded animal. he can't move nor talk. he faints.
"Jordan help me to put this trash on the car. I will be back. in the meantime I want you to clean the whole house. please, this is my last request to you."
"yes sir, you don't need to tell me. you have done so much for me."
Jordan helps Rig to put the two wounded man in the car. he goes back inside. Rig looks at someone looking at him from the suspicious car.
Jose Miguel is still in shock. he is a peaceful man. he has never before used a weapon. the shotgun was a gift from his brother-in-law. Jose Miguel feels disgusted and dirty after using the weapon. he is silent unable to express his emotions.
his daughter runs towards him. she hugs him. she cries on his shoulder. Jose Miguel reacts as he tries to console his little girl. he tells her that everything is going to be okay. he tries to calm her down. he is able to breath at last.
taking or hurting a life is the action of a sinner. but before being a man of god. he is a father and a husband. Jose Miguel asks his little girl if she is hurt. she just keeps crying on his shoulder. she is unable to speak.
"sir what do we say to the police?"
"don't worry. in this area only elderly people live. most of them are either deaf. or go to sleep as early as seven pm. for a reason I chose this neighborhood."
Jordan helps Jose Miguel to stand up. the daughter brings the first-aid kit. Jordan takes care of Jose Miguel's wound. lucky for him it wasn't so bad. Jose Miguel thinks about how to explain all this to his wife.
.....
Rig arrives at the woods. he drags Johnny into the woods. then he goes for Louis. once inside of the woods. Rig puts the two man in their knees while he smiles at them holding his pistol. he feels so much anger.
"I let the scum talk, usually. some last words for them to say. however, the point is that you weren't blessed enough. more realistically speaking, you weren't blessed at all. you were curse enough to have cross your paths on my way."
"no, please mercy."
"now you are about to pay the price. if you want me to say that I don't like doing this, or I don't wish to do this. you can't be more wrong, because there is no pleasure like killing scum. you don't deserve to breathe the same air that I breathe in."
"please, please mercy."
"I am sorry, but I am atheist when it is about compassion, I don't believe in the word forgiveness. all I can give is my wrath."
Rig aims at the head of Johnny and he press the trigger. the body falls dead. he then aims at the head of Louis and he press the trigger. the body falls. Rig smiles in a creepy way while he looks at the two cold bodies in front of him.
the moon is as bright as ever. the woods are quieter than ever. there is no other sound, than the sound of Rig's breath. Rig didn't wanted to kill them, but he had to. it was a clear and simple message. he doesn't believe in forgiveness.