Чувак, эта вечеринка отстой. я ненавижу этих людей

Gallery[]

The Son consuming several Pills, while a concerned Blue Lips watches.

A hallucination of a Russian Mobster cannibalizing one of his own men.

A Demon Mobster (hallucination as a result of the Pills) armed with an Uzi.

A Demon Mobster after being knocked over (note the red eyes).

A Demon Dog with three heads (hallucination as a result of the Pills).

The hallucinated form of Mark eating the corpse of a mobster.

Mark’s death.

The Son shoots and kills his own men.

The Son is inhaled by his own contorted and exaggerated dialogue-sprite.

The hallucinated form of Corey leaping across the room.

Corey’s death.

Several mobsters are shown massacred shortly after the Son kills Corey.

A Demon Thug (hallucination as a result of the Pills).

Several dead mobsters piled up.

The hallucinated form of Tony emerges from the shadows.

Tony explodes into a large ray of light.

A Mobster writhing and wriggling on the floor, his guts slowly warping and morphing in and out of his body.

The hallucinated forms of Alex and Ash right before merging together.

The gigantic beast form of Alex and Ash.

The deaths of Alex and Ash.

The Rainbow Bridge to Valhalla.

The Son walks across the Rainbow Bridge to Valhalla. In reality however, he has walked off of the roof of his HQ and falls to his death.

The Son’s showdown with The Tiger.

Trivia[]

• Beard’s appearance is based on Niklas «El Huervo» Åkerblad, one of the game’s composers and cover art designer. As such, the game files of Hotline Miami and Wrong Number refer to Beard as Nicklas and Nicke,respectively.
  • If one looks at the cover art for Wrong Number, the name on his dog tags reads «Prillan Raketgatan
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    In Swedish this is most likely a nickname, but the direct translation would be Snus (Prilla is a single «use» of snus) Rocketstreet.

    «. It also says that his blood type is B+.

• Much like the masks of masked characters, Beard’s glasses fly off whenever he’s killed.
• Beard is the very first playable character in the series to die chronologically.
• The jacket that Beard is wearing on the cover art seems to be an (Alpha Industries) M65 Field Jacket. This is evident by the front chest pockets, it’s colour is Olive Drab which is common for the garment and the concealable hood that he dons can be rolled up back into the collar. Although M65’s are more commonly associated with the Vietnam War and Vietnam Vets. It also might be a small reference to the first Rambo movie: First Blood, where Rambo is seen in the first quarter of the film with an M65. It is also worth noting that both Beard and John Rambo are ex Spec-Ops Vets of their respective conflicts.
• Niklas or «El Huervo» in an intervew refers to Beard as Clerk.
• Beard is one of the only playable character whose house is never seen, in fact, none of his playable chapters have a recurring location like for others characters.

Depiction in Hotline Miami[]

In Hotline Miami, he is accompanied by two other internal voices, Don Juan and Rasmus.

Richard seems to be Jacket’s primary call to remembering his life, who he is, and that he needs to wake up. He also assures Jacket his post-Trauma actions are fruitless and that he’ll never see the full picture.

The first encounter with Richard sees him telling Jacket they «met» on April 3rd, which is in reference to April 3rd, 1986 and April 3rd, 1989, major events in Jacket’s life, in an effort to jar Jacket’s memory.

Once Jacket recalls everything between receiving his mask and rescuing Girlfriend, a second encounter with Richard takes advantage of this newly remembered information to further jog Jacket’s memory by asking him four questions:

1. Do you like hurting other people?
2. Who is leaving messages on your answering machine?
3. Where are you right now?
4. Why are we having this conversation?

These questions evoke Tension, where Jacket kills another masked killer, Full House, hinting that Jacket’s in a big house (Full House also has an easter egg declaring that everything is a dream), Clean Hit, which indicates the people leaving him messages are Janitors, and Neighbors, indicating Biker is the reason Jacket was shot. However, Jacket convinces himself that he succeeded in killing Biker to avoid being riddled with guilt (Don Juan: «Bearing too much weight inevitably leads to collapse of everything»).

A blood-soaked Jacket appears in a trashed animal room where Richard informs him the coma is coming to an end with three predictions:

1. Someone you know is not who you think he is.
2. Something will soon be taken from you.
3. On July the 21st you will wake up in a bigger house.

Jacket is soon after informed by Beard that Biker is still alive, prompting Jacket to begin to remember Richter, who silences Beard and overtakes his position. Beard also seems to summon «dream static» in reference to the booting up of Hotline Miami‘s main menu, to hint that events aren’t real. Richter is always accompanied by a spray tag mark and he serves the zombified corpses of Russians (who he calls VIPs), indicating that Jacket now believes the Russians to be behind the calls and Richter to be a faithful, well-informed Russian hitman. As Jacket remembers June 8th, his phone message hangs up 14 times, a van attacks him on his way out of a job (hinting he still isn’t safe after clearing the level), and Richter seems to overtake the Molotov Guy’s facial sprite, prompting Jacket to take out his anger on it as dream static interferes.

Upon remembering Girlfriend’s death and being shot by Richter, Richard visits Jacket, accompanied by the dream static, to finally wake him up with a Biker-esque head explosion. He tells Jacket that what he does from now on won’t serve any purpose, hinting that Jacket understands that the connections and associations he’s made are flimsy and that he’s just trying to make himself feel good. Richard tells Jacket that he will never see the full picture of what is happening and adds that it is Jacket’s fault. This is a reference to Jacket’s failing to kill Biker, failing to aid Biker’s investigation and indirectly causing the death of Girlfriend.

Richard never appears again, but dream static appears one last time as Jacket gets dressed after Trauma, hinting that he rested a bit before Assault (which possibly dates it as July 22nd).

Trivia[]

• Martin Brown is the only one in the entire game who has not killed anybody, since logically speaking, all the “kills“ performed by Martin were just filmed and scripted.
• His unused sprites that were apparent in the trailer «Wear Something Fancy» can be found in the files of Hotline Miami.
• His insistence that the violence isn’t real parallels how players might distance themselves from their own role and action in the games. «Actor» and «player» notably were synonymous terms at one point.
• Martin’s tutorial and the tutorial pig mask in the first game likely represent the new-coming player as being a «pig.»
• His character of the Pig Butcher may be inspired by the boss character Piggsy from Manhunt, as both are overweight, homicidally insane men wearing pig masks.
• Martin’s death by prop gun may possibly be a reference to the death of Brandon Lee, the son of the legendary Bruce Lee, as he too was killed by a prop gun loaded with a defective blank during filming of «The Crow».
• Level-wise, the death of Martin is the very first death of a playable character shown in Hotline Miami 2
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  Chronologically, the first death of a playable character would be Beard.

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• Martin Brown’s death is heavily debated about, due to conflicting evidence and theories, although it is most likely he was method acting. One of the main forms of evidence involves is that the film is mentioned in a newspaper, that it was released around December 2nd, and that Martin Brown appears in a possibly live interview on the 28th of December.
  • Method Acting involves the actor «stepping into their shoes» to achieve better characterizations of the fictional character, this can possibly explain why Martin Brown has the script, doesn’t get up after he is shot (if one doesn’t believe the 9mm was loaded with live ammunition)
  • The table sequence shows Martin shot after he’s done talking rather than as a skeleton like the other guests who were caught in the nuke’s blast. This would suggest that Martin did actually die at the end of Final Cut.

Hotline Miami[]

Trivia[]

• In the game files, The Colonel is referred to as General. He is later promoted to Lieutenant General as the war in Hawaii progresses.
• Interestingly, he is not the only commander in the war in Hawaii to go insane, as his russian counterpart also goes insane during the events of Casualties.
• He is most likely based off Colonel Walter E. Kurtz from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. They look very similar, from their baldness to their facial structures, to both of them being high ranking in the military, and they both end up going insane near the end of the war.
  • The panther face he wears in the intro of Casualties is a reference to the Brandon mask in the first game, which is a tribute to Brandon McCartin. Still, because of the assonance, it can be interpreted as a tribute to Kurtz’s actor in the movie, Marlon Brando.
  • His promotion to Lt General and nuking of the world could be a reference to Lt General Jack D. Ripper in Doctor Strangelove.
• It is heavily implied that The Colonel founded and led the 50 Blessings organization and orchestrated (if not actively participated in) the assassinations of the American and Russian Presidents which caused a nuclear war to break out at the end of Hotline Miami 2. The Colonel could thusly be considered to be the main antagonist of the entire Hotline Miami series, though he is never fought directly or worked against directly.

Dialogue[]

Phone Message

Hank’s.

YOU’VE GOT ONE NEW MESSAGE! *BEEP*

Uh, hello… I saw your ad in the paper. I’ve got some ‘information’ you might find interesting. … It said two hundred bucks for information, right? Well, you better bring it. I’ll be at Hank’s on 101st all day, sitting in the bar. Just get here before I max out my tab, OK?

Hank’s Bar

Writer: Excuse me, sir. Are you the one who left a message on my machine? You said you had some information for me, right?

Biker: You’re that writer, huh? Did you bring the money?

Writer: Two hundred, yes. So, what do you have for me?

Biker: Right, I… Was it two years ago? You see, I was out of town for a while, lost track of time… Well, look… I was there, OK? The Russians. I killed a bunch of them.

Writer: In the War, you mean?

Biker: The War? Fuck no! Right here, in Miami. You know, it was before I went to the desert. I was young… It’s only been two years, huh? I feel a lot older now. The Russians, they were Mafia, I think. I killed a bunch. You see I signed up for this… Y’know some patriotic bullshit. And I started getting these weird phone calls, you see…

Writer: Phone calls?

Biker: That’s what I said! You listening or what? A lot of people were getting these calls, I think. I got fed up with it, wanted out. Tried to figure out who was calling. I think… there was something big behind it all. Real big. So I skipped town. Went into hiding out in the desert.

Writer: You think there was a conspiracy?

Biker: No, man. This thing was real! Not a fucking conspiracy… … Anyway, out in the desert… that’s where I met him. I’ve never been scared of anything. This guy gave me the chills. After that… I just lost it. I lost the will to fight.

Writer: Who do you think were making these phone calls?

Biker: Beats me. … So, are you going to give me my money now or what? I need another drink.

Writer: I think you’ve had enough, to be honest. If you can’t give me anything more substantial I can’t pay you, OK?

Biker: Not substantial, am I? Well, screw you, pal. I’m risking my life here talking to you… And you’re not gonna pay? Get lost, will ya. I’m through with you! …

Comics[]

The dates corresponding with the Ghost Wolves storyline and Jake’s storyline are inconsistent and generally hard to reconcile with or deduce from the events of the games. For these reasons they’re excluded from the game timeline above.

July

The Waipahu Prison is assaulted by the Ghost Wolves, who kill ~350 men and destroy seven attack helicopters. They then steal an attack helicopter and «nuke» the Russian base.

Unknown

A Russian controlled base near Midway Atoll is captured by the Ghost Wolves. 10 days later another base is taken over by the Ghost Wolves.

August

10th — The captured Paradise Resort is taken over by the Ghost Wolves. It is very similar to Stronghold, which takes place in an unnamed Hawaiian resort.

May

2nd — Jake attends an American pride protest rally which breaks into a riot. Jake kills a Russian woman before returning to his apartment to find a 50 Blessings package containing his Jake Mask.

July

• Mid July — The comics re-date Assault as occurring «last week» from Showdown instead of a day prior.
• 23rd — Jacket is apprehended by police on the morning at Lebedev’s mansion. The filming of his arrest is broadcast during a news report about his series of crimes, which are viewed by Daniels and the Fans.

September

• 23rd — The Pig Butcher is shown being filmed while «killing» a store clerk with a hammer on 196th Street.
• 24th — The Pig Butcher is watching horror movies in his apartment before being told by the Pig Phone to go to 188 63rd Street, where he «kills» a family. Several cameras and boom mics are visible in many comic panels. He returns to his apartment to eat beans and is again told by the Pig Phone to go to 188 66th Street, where he «kills» a group of teenagers. After he does, he removes his mask and is congratulated by the movie crew.

October

• 9th — A cargo shipment of Russian prostitutes is discovered by the Miami Port Authority. Ash and Mark express a desire to acquire a police radio.
• 9th — The Fans are on a patrol around a warehouse district. Ash discovers a warehouse that had its gate lock cut. The Fans decide to investigate and run into a group of masked thieves raiding the warehouse, before being killed by the Fans.

Depiction in Hotline Miami[]

Beard’s four different clerk appearances.

In the outros to the majority of Hotline Miami‘s levels he is seen manning the counter of every place Jacket visits to unwind. He cycles through appearances in a convenience store, a pizza place, a movie rental store, and at a bar (always in that order before looping back to the convenience store for the next Part), with each location giving him new apparel, hair style, and attitude. His convenience store iteration greets Jacket as an old friend he was worried about, his pizza iteration wears a uniform and relates everything back to his job (interpreting the empty, unsafe Miami streets as people «losing their taste for pizza»), his VHS store iteration enjoys violence, hates Russians, and is excited about the masked killings (encouraging Jacket to «enjoy himself»), and his bartender iteration morosely remembers the past («I haven’t felt this way since San Francisco»). He always appears to be a friend of Jacket and gives him free items every time he visits, despite Jacket never directly doing him any favors.

As Jacket begins to wake up from his coma, Beard explicitly tells Jacket that he didn’t actually kill Biker and that «none of this is happening.» The next level he is «killed» by Richter, and subsequently replaced at each establishment, the stores refilled to serve the zombies of Russian mobsters Jacket’s killed. Beard’s appearance in Hotline Miami is therefore entirely Jacket’s coma dream fantasy, representing how Jacket feels obligated to avenge Beard by killing Russians.

The Table Sequence[]

After beating Hotline Miami 2, players who decide to go to «New Game» and start again will be greeted with Richard (in Jacket’s clothing) sitting at the head of a table in a door-less projector room. All player characters from the game will appear sitting at the table. Richard questions why they’ve returned to the game even though they know they’ll all die at the end. Each person makes a comment characteristic of themselves and dies.

• Jake rudely and confusedly asks where he is and who everyone in the room is. He will then appear to be shot in the head. (Shot by Petrov or the 50 Blessings Manager in Withdrawal)
• Martin Brown questions if he’s dreaming again. Richard condescendingly asks «It’s all a dream, isn’t it?» and advises Martin to enjoy it while it lasts. He will then appear to be shot in the body vigorously as he is at the end of Final Cut (shot multiple times with a gun by Rachael).
• The Fans are all sitting together on the same side of the table. Tony is characteristically frustrated, just wanting to kill people, and tells his easily influenced friends «let’s get out of here.» Richard comments there’s only one way out of here, and they all appear dead the way they die in Death Wish (Golf club to the head, shot by Pardo, shot by The Son, and shot/possibly axe murdered by the Son)
• The Henchman will die on the table after the Son states that he’s not afraid of death. His head is bashed in a number of times. Aside from the non-Tony Fans he’s the only character who doesn’t get a word in, likely as his life and death was entirely a footnote to the Son’s.
• The Son says he isn’t afraid of death, and will appear dead on the ground, limbs broken apart as if he fell. (He dies by falling off his own building in Death Wish and Apocalypse)
• Richter mistakes Richard for Jacket and attempts to apologize for killing his girlfriend, but Richard denies that he is Jacket and tells him that remorse won’t get Richter anywhere. Richter then turns into a skeleton. (Atomic Blast)
• Manny Pardo will get aggressively defensive that he’s being judged even though he isn’t, which results in Richard questioning Pardo why he does what he does, and tells him that he simply doesn’t understand who Richard is. Pardo then turns into a skeleton. (Atomic Blast)
• Evan Wright will question who Richard is. Richard answers he’s «the opposite of why you’re writing your book» and «something you’ll will never understand,» as Evan was writing the book for a plethora of peripheral reasons (money, fame, concern for society’s well being, all at the expense of his family). Evan also turns into a skeleton. (Atomic Blast)
• Beard, as the last one left, wonders if they’ve met before. Richard answers that they did, and that he’s glad he remembers. He wishes that they could’ve met «under different circumstances». Beard does too, and dies as a skeleton. (Atomic Blast)

After everyone has finally died, Richard will play a projector tape, playing Midnight Animal and starting the game over (in the Hard Mode, the characters are depicted as reenacting Hotline Miami 2‘s events in dark blue nuked-out ruins).

Trivia[]

• This mask is likely a reference to Tony the Tiger, the mascot for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. It’s also likely a reference to the movie Scarface. in which the protagonist is a Miami gangster named Tony who has an obsession with tigers.
• In the chapter Tension, an individual in the bomb room is seen wearing this mask, suggesting he was another operator who failed his mission. He might be the tattoo artist Jake wants to get a new tattoo from in Hotline Miami 2, because the carpet at his tattoo parlor says «Tony Skate Tattoo». He also schedules Jake’s tattoo appointment for the exact date of Tension, May 5th, 1989 («Next Friday» from Hard News’ April 25th).
• The Tony mask makes its return in Hotline Miami 2, worn by Tony (one of The Fans). It is unlikely the bloodied Tony mask is the same one used by Jacket in Hotline Miami, as Jacket’s original Tony mask can be seen at his trial at roughly the same time, meaning the Fan’s Tony mask cannot be Jacket’s.
• Both Tony and his Bloodied form appear as masks in the game PAYDAY 2, one of the masks being Hotline Miami ownership exclusive, and the other being a Hotline Miami 2 bonus. The bloodied mask is named «Tony’s Revenge.»
• In PAYDAY 2, the description of the mask says that Tony was an Italian-American born in the 1970’s, who was known for his brutality. That, however, doesn’t coincide with Hotline Miami 2‘s story, as it implies the original Tony would’ve been fifteen years old during his time in Hawaii.
• The description reads «Fists of Fury», this might be a reference to the movie Fist of Fury, another possibility is a reference to the animated movie Kung Fu Panda, in which one of the characters, called Tigress, is known for her attack called «Fist of Fury.»
• In earlier builds of Hotline Miami, Tony was the first mask.

Techniques[]

The Son has the choice of 3 different techniques at the start of two of his levels, granting him specific abilities. A new technique is unlocked upon successfully completing a level.

Each ability is akin to that of The Fans, and is unlocked in a similar order:

Bodyguard

The Bodyguard’s old sunglasses, cracked when she was killed by Jacket.

Inherited from the blonde ninja girl from the first game, this is unlocked by default and activated with the space bar, granting the Son the ability to start with a Katana and has the ability to roll dodge. Similar to Corey, he is able to become temporally invulnerable, rolling under gunfire, and avoiding melee attacks.

While rolling, he cannot attack, but can do so immediately out of the roll. There is a short delay after the roll has finished in which he cannot roll again, meaning that he cannot constantly repeat this move to achieve a continuous state of invulnerability.

Dirty Hands

The Son gains the ability of Killing Punches, but cannot pick up any weapons. Similar to Tony, his punches kill standard enemies at the cost of being unable to use weapons, and he is able to kill fat enemies by first knocking them to the floor and then performing a ground execution, as well as being able to perform ground executions on dogs. The ability also trades his weaponless ground execution from a slow foot grind to a fast double punch execution. A noticeable difference between Tony and Dirty Hands is The Son’s punching speed is still the default used by most player characters rather than Tony’s rapid jabs.

Bloodline

You remember this?

Inherited from the Father, the Son starts with a pair of MP5s that he dual wields. Similar to Mark, he is able to aim in separate directions; horizontally by holding down the right mouse button or left trigger of a controller, and vertically by holding the right mouse button and left shift.

The Numbers on the sprite are the date of Showdown in Hotline Miami, which is reference to the day his father and the grandfather were killed by Jacket.

He has a full magazine of ammo for each gun in reserve. After his ammunition is depleted, he drops his firearms on the ground and reverts to using other weapons normally. You are also able to pick up the MP5s after their ammo is depleted, but they will still remain unusable for the rest of the level. A notable difference between Bloodline and Mark is the inability to perform ground executions while using the MP5s, likely because of the relative lack of doors in The Son’s levels.

General Playstyle

Techniques aside, The Son’s general playstyle also features several characteristics that make him stand out from other playable characters. The first of these being that he swings several melee weapons at a slower speed than what their usual speed is (e.g. he swings the golf club much slower than the usual speed it swings at with most other playable characters).

The second and more notable characteristics is having several unique executions. His default execution is a stomping move, where The Son will quickly stomp on an enemy’s head and grind his foot into their heads. This is a rather long execution like most other playable character’s stomping executions (except for Martin Brown’s stomping execution, which is quite fast).

While using the golf club, The Son will perform a unique execution where he will smash the club across an enemy’s face in a golf-swinging posture (this execution is very similar to Jacket’s scripted execution on Biker).

While using the baton, the execution The Son performs involves smacking the baton across the enemy’s face three times, bludgeoning them to death. This execution is unique to the regular baton execution, where most playable characters will smash it down onto an enemy’s head.

While using the machete, he can execute an enemy by decapitating them via hacking them three times in the neck with it (This execution is shared with Jacket’s machete execution in the first game, although it is slower).

While using the butterfly knife, rather than simply slitting the enemy’s throat, The Son will swiftly stab the enemy in the side of the neck once.

1989[]

April

• 2nd — Richter begins his work with 50 Blessings shortly after they torched his car and threatened his mother for not doing as they say. He assaults a Russian-owned cafe flying USSR flags.
• 3rd — Jacket begins his work with 50 Blessings and goes to a subway station to collect a briefcase. Jacket throws the briefcase away into a dumpster and kills a homeless man on the way back home.
• 8th — Jacket arrives at an apartment complex inhabited by the Russian mafia and kills all inhabitants.
• 10th — Richter attacks a well-guarded Russian warehouse of USSR imported weapons, which the Son will later use.
• 16th — Jacket assaults another apartment building and murders all mobsters inside.
• 23rd — Richter assaults a Russian apartment.
• 25th — Jacket attacks a film producer’s villa and rescues a drug-addled young woman. Meanwhile, another masked vigilante known as Jake shaves his head and assaults a news station in the Russian mafia’s pocket. Unlike Richter, he is shown to have 50 Blessings’ newsletter.

May

• 5th — Jacket assaults a mafia-owned mansion and an explosion erupts from the second floor.
• 11th — Jacket performs another hit at a mafia-occupied house.
• 13th — Biker, having rejected a political hit job from 50 Blessings, follows a lead to the Blue Dragon, a Chinese restaurant, in order to find 50 Blessings and end his affiliation with the group. Meanwhile, under direct supervision of The Janitors, Jacket performs the political hit on the mob-protected Hotel Blue and kills three politicians, dealing a heavy blow to the Russo-American coalition.
• 16th — Biker attacks a mafia-inhabited casino and arcade.
• 23rd — Jacket invades an apartment complex before being tasked by 50 Blessings to stop Biker from tracing their calls. He drives to the local telephone company and hits Biker with a golf club, wounding him but failing to kill Biker.
• 24th — Biker discovers the heart of the operation, finds they’re a national organization with political ties, and flees Miami.
• 27th — Jacket performs another hit at a night club.
• 31st — Jacket intercepts a massive cocaine operation before the building is raided by the SWAT team and he narrowly escapes.

June

• 3rd — Jake visits the 50 Blessings HQ and finds out from the Manager working there that they are behind the phone call operation. Jake later performs a botched hit on a mafia-run apartment complex used for cooking meth, where he is wounded and taken away to a bath house. Petrov and the VIP Guard attempt to interrogate Jake, but they get no answers from him and shoot him in the head. Later, Jacket invades the bath house and clears it out.
• 8th — Jacket performs a hit on a mafia-owned office complex, and withstands an attack led by a Russian van driving hitman. When he returns to his home, his girlfriend has been assassinated by Richter, tasked to kill Jacket for his failure to kill Biker. Richter shoots Jacket and places him into a coma, where he relives the past few months in a dream.

July

• Unknown Date — Jacket drowsily overhears a conversation about Girlfriend’s death, his own coma, and Richter’s arrest between a nurse and a police officer.
• 21st — Waking up from his coma, Jacket escapes the hospital he was staying at before the police could question him. He returns home and rests for an indefinite amount of time.
• Unknown Date — Looking for Richter, Jacket attacks the local police precinct and kills every officer inside, including the station’s chief. Jacket finds and interrogates Richter, discovering that he receives the same phone calls sent out by 50 Blessings, and that his murder of Girlfriend was no personal vendetta in any way. Richter tips Jacket off with the police station containing more information on the case than that of Richter’s own knowledge, and Jacket steals confidential police files on the murders before leaving.
• 23rd — Jacket follows a police file to the Golden Truckstop, a mafia-run nightclub. He receives the location of the mafia boss’s mansion from the club manager. He brutally murders the club manager on the way out. Then Jacket kills off what is left of the Russian Mafia at The Father’s mansion, mistaking them for the source of the calls, but primarily looking to make himself feel better by killing affluent Russians. He resumes his smoking from Hawaii and tosses the Picture to the wind.