- A gang attempts to extort money from Mother. When she refuses to pay, the gang dynamites her club and critically injures its owner. The police investigation stalls so Gunn goes hunting for the man he holds responsible.
- A gang attempts to extort money from Mother. When she refuses to pay, the gang dynamites her club and critically injures its owner. When the police investigation into the bombing moves too slowly for Gunn, the detective goes hunting for the man he holds responsible.—David Bassler
- Season 1 Episode 1 The Kill Prologue is two cops stopping the big car of a scoundrel mobster, the undisputed vice lord, where the front seat gangsters and the boss are murdered in the vehicle by the same police pulling them over. Film Noir second scene is at the kingpin's burial where we witness among others, the three guys planning a takeover of the entire operation. Next the new boss Fallon introduces himself with the other two men, and threats are made in the form of a terse warning that changes are coming to the organization. The voice we hear is Pete summarizing the ruthless lifestyle lead by the deceased, but now dead, as we witness Pete and Jacobi speak briefly as the lieutenant drives off. Our introduction to Mother's is next with Pete appearing outside the establishment, the proverbial cigarette in hand, rain-soaked sidewalks, he enters, it is still the same September night after the funeral burial. We get to see the general layout, the floor size and the owner of Mother's as she greets Pete and sits at his table. Jazz band playing, the owner tells Pete the new mob boss, George Fallon sent his henchmen to extort a cut of the action, a 50% cut, or else. Meanwhile, Edie approaches the microphone, begins singing, as Mother asks for Pete's help against extortion from Fallon's crew, simultaneously, one of them enters, Dave Green, walks in and to the bar. Pete steps out to the terrace, soon joined by Edie, loving conversation begins, the piano player breaks the mood by summoning Edie back on stage, Edie says to him I'll be right there, Emmett, and she exits the terrace. Pete is seen entering the health club building, walking up the stairs, encountering two of the tough guys, gunmen, a disparaging remark from one after Peter tells them he wants to see the new boss. A skirmish ensues, both goons are subdued when Dave Green entering the stairs greets Pete's drawn gun. Green leads Pete through an upper entryway, Pete is frisked, gun removed via another thug, as they enter an upper level view of the handball court occupied by Fallon and associate Henry Ives, finishing their game. Pete asks they back off their bribery proposal of Mother, but a sarcastic rebuttal is given by the new leader. Open to the dark wet street, car approaching past the police station, it's Jacobi, he tells Pete to get in the car. Jacobi informs Pete a certain tailor reported missing by his wife had $10,000 deposited in his bank account recently. Now both men make it that fake cops killed the former kingpin Fusary the other night in a bogus cop car. Pete exits the car, Jacobi drives off. Pete enters Mother's, greets the owner, goes over to Edie and Emmett at the piano, Edie gets her coat, Pete and her leave through the back when a bomb goes off in the place. Emmett is dazed, Mother is hurt bad, bartender Barney is bleeding, able to stand. Next, we see Edie, Pete and Jacobi in the hospital waiting to hear about Mother's condition; Jacobi says she's got a 50/50 chance, he also says Barney suffered shock, but he's going to be all right. Jacobi says bomb squad reported it was three sticks of dynamite underneath the floorboard; words are exchanged between Pete and the lieutenant, each exits the hospital as Edie sits. Green is leaving the health club, getting in his car alone, with Pete in back seat, gun pointed to the head directing him where the destination is to be. They arrive at Mother's, Pete ordering the man to sit on the floor, gets a call from Edie saying Mother is going to be all right. Pete hangs up the phone and tells the henchman nothing about Mother, but extracts the detailed confession from the squirming Green with his gun cocked. The gist of the confession was that hired guns dressed as police in a police car perform all the killings. Pete tells the man to call his new boss, demand he comes to Mother's with $50,000 in an hour. The man screams in the phone the instructions, hangs up, Pete tells to him to pour himself a drink as they wait. Return to the dark wet street again, a police car approaches Mother's, conveniently near the police station, but the cops are the same hired gunmen like before. Pete shuts the lights off, Green strikes Pete's arm with a bottle as Edie calls out Pete's name, Green runs out of the club, hired guns shoot Green multiple times in the street. Jacobi approaches as the shooting ends, hired guns get into their fake police car, try to make a getaway, another real cop blocks their escape with Jacobi following, gunfire a blazing. Jacobi got the bad guys that weren't already dead, as Pete narrated during the closing scene at Mother's, with the owner counting the till, Barney's behind the bar bandaged and serving, Edie singing, and fade out.
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