PLOT:
Is he hero or villain? Should he be praised for what he's accomplished or damned for how he did it? These are questions going through the mind of Mark Richards as he sits in a jail cell
after turning himself in for sparking the gang war that could bring the city to its knees. But when he least expects it, he's paid a visit by a high powered attorney named Ahmad Sturges. This guy
surpasses even the late Johnny Cochran in terms of both showmanship and pay rates. Without even breaking a sweat, Sturges gets Mark's estranged wife to recant her statement and get Mark released
from jail. Now it's just a question of what he'll do next.
But while Mark sits at home weighing his options, he receives a surprise knock on his door. It's Kim Tanaka and she has something for him. The tape of Crim$o murdering Twisttedd. The tape her bosses didn't want her to show to anyone.
And now she's trusting the city's only hero to do what's best with it.
Meanwhile, Mark's brother has taken a decidedly less gray approach to life. He takes the recently consolidated gangs (now known as the Avenue Deds) under his leadership and uses them to begin manufacturing his brand of death
all across the city. Realizing that Halstead knows far too much, he knocks the Chief off and retires to his lair at the Liberty Hill Boxing Gym. It's there that his brother finds him and the rest of the Deds.
Tattooed Man takes out the gang members including Synck's enforcer Slipknot before finally confronting his brother. Synck can't control him because quite simply it isn't just him up there in his head anymore. He has two other fully functioning personalities in Altera and Kabuki Dan rumbling around in his skull and that's too much for
Synck to handle. Frustrated, he charges at his brother but Mark merely tosses him over his shoulder like dead weight, sending him flying into Altera and impaling himself on her razor sharp devil's horns.
It's at this moment that Mark Richards realizes that he could simply rid himself and the world of his wayward brother once and for all. He is after all, a murderer. But not anymore. Mark has made a commitment to changing things and that includes changing himself. He opts not to kill
Devon and instead turns him over to the authorities.
And about that tape? Mark decides to have Sturges and Kim confront Crim$o at his apartment with the evidence that very easily could put him away for life. With Synck out of the way, the leadership of the Deds falls in his hands and
the Tattooed Man has decided that Crim$o is going to use the Deds as a force for good for once. Using sinners to do the work of saints, rebuilding Liberty Hill.
So which one is he? Saint or sinner? Hero or villain? Put simply - he's both. Not that it really matters. It isn't what you are, it's what you leave behind. And Mark Richards is committed to leaving a positive footprint behind, even if it means working with the lowest of the low
to accomplish this. But little does he know that his change has attracted the attention of one of the world's lowest villains. His name is Slade Wilson. He's killed thousands,
irreparably damaged the lives of countless more. And he wants to talk.
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