Synopsis/Details
Sirens, screams, beeping, people running escaping… a life-support machine. A comatose patient. SLICK (60s) epitome of a wide boy is thrown into an interrogation room, he gives the officer a mouth full. In a hospital room, the beeps stabilize, a battered, bruised man. The interrogation room door opens again and TOMUA (37) a hulking Tongan is escorted in. The officers leave. Slick says he’ll do the talking.
SOPH (30) enters, sits opposite them and reads off the injuries the opponent suffered and the charges they equate to. Frantic beeping, then we’re in a ring made of wooden posts and rope. A blood-thirsty crowd watch as Tomua and his OPPONENT (30) go at it. Tomua batters his opponent from pillar to post and is soon punching a man-shaped heavy bag. Then we’re back in the hospital room, where the Opponent’s close to flatlining. Soph asks about the organisation, the underground fighting is run by a mob boss, known as ‘Anderson’. She has a picture of an older, heavyset man in a fashionable suit, surrounded by elegantly dressed women and smartly dressed men. Soph tells Slick and Tomua they’ve been cracking down on Anderson’s fronts, the brothels, the gambling dens, the laundrettes, but have never caught the man himself. They learned about the underground fights at the brothel, and it’s all fixed, much to Tomua’s annoyance. Soph asks about Anderson’s whereabouts. Slick and Tomua don’t know.
Back in the hospital room, someone enters and unplugs the opponent’s life-support. The hands then cover the nose and face, making sure the job is done. Back in the interrogation room, Slick tells Soph that Anderson’s probably gone by now, and they’ll be gone soon too. We hear Anderson on the phone, giving an address, then we’re in an office. The door bursts open, and police arrest a MAN behind a desk, they show a picture of him with Anderson and a woman at the fight. The interrogation room opens, and an officer tells Soph that they’ve got Anderson. He then tells her to let Slick and Tomua go. She begrudgingly obliges. Slick and Tomua get into a car parked outside the station. They join ANDERSON (30s), who is revealed to be the woman, as they start driving, Slick asks her what she’ll do now, she tells them she’ll cut any existing leads and start again before promptly shooting both men.
