Recap

It’s been a month and a half now since I put on the mask and created this second life for myself. My girlfriend Jazmin wants to leave me cause I don’t seem to have any time for her lately and on top of that, the streets are still a mess. I’ve made moves against the street gangs, psychopaths and crime organizations that claim to own the night. But yet more crack houses and freaks pop-up in the hoods across Philly. The crime and political corruption that has taken the city under makes me wonder if any of what I’m out trying to do for the city at night will matter for anything at all. For a straight month I prowled the city beating up on the scum of the underworld for info that would lead me to Alex Smalls, the city’s crime lord who rose from low-level drug dealer to the city’s King Pin of crime. I followed Alex across Philly to all his major drug spots and drop off spots and seen that Alex has his hands in everything from the Philadelphia police force to the people making the major decisions in City Hall. It’s the people like Alex that keep me coming out at night and realizing that my actions against chaos is all the city’s citizens have for a sense of hope in the streets. But the moves I’ve made to get towards Alex have gotten me nowhere. Alex has ties with everyone in Philly and nobody wants to be the rat that snitched out Alex to the freak in the mask. So I see, to take this man down I must look beyond my own lust for action and seek a little help. The city is beginning to rot away and the only people able to do anything about it are on Alex’s payroll. MARCH 22ND, 2005. It was the 22nd of the month; I was taking a long shot this night heading towards the office of Lieutenant Roderick Henderson. I had gotten the chance to catch the news the other day and watched a special on the Lieutenant, and how he gives back to the community- it was amazing how this cop was walking the hoods of Philly and got mad love from everyone. It showed me that there was at least one good cop left in the city. Every hood spoke highly of the man, people believed in him because of how he would go out of his way to make sure they are as safe as they can be in Philadelphia. This was the man I needed to aid me in bringing down Alex and his crime empire. Watching that special on Lieutenant Roderick Henderson I could see that he was honored and dedicated to not just his work but helping others as well.