Location Isola di Capri, Italy
Craig is waiting to meet Mr Liu. Mr. Liu Yaoding arrives and presents the forbidden card with the #86 written on it. Craig expresses his surprise at how Mr. Liu took the bait. While hurling an orange at Mr. Liu, Craig immediately asks for the whereabouts of Alford Wayne. He is willing to get the information in exchange for #86.
Meanwhile, back at Mr. Liu’s office, the new rookie has made a mistake. He tried to steal the drugs but luckily for Mr. Liu Corvo caught the rookie. Since Mr. Liu is busy with Craig one of his associates issues punishment. The associate sends the rookie to Costiera Amafitana. It looks like a construction site. Once inside all these guys surround the pretty looking, blonde headed rookie. It’s Charley! A big huge guy, name Ouro, enters the room and picks up Charley and carries him off; apparently, this guy likes blondes. Once they are away from the other guys Ouro sets Charley down. Ouro is in on the whole infiltration thing. He tells Charley all about the place. The place is called the Bianco Dirupo, the White Wall . It is the mafia prison. Those that are sentenced to Bianco Dirupo usually die there and their bodies are placed within the concrete walls. Charley then asks Ouro to show him to the basement.
Back to Craig
While tossing this fruit back and forth Craig and Mr. Liu talk about the man Mr. Liu has captive in his basement. The man first approach Mr. Liu to sample a drug which made its users immortal. Mr. Liu was curious but caution. He hired a woman to be his wife and had her take the drug. At first he was impressed with the results but felt something totally different when he heard the side effects which where you can’t get your heart injured (you’ll die), you can’t walk in direct sunlight, and finally you’ll have to drink blood forever. Well, these side effects were unacceptable for Mr. Liu. He shots his fake wife in the heart and sure enough she’s dead and then he places his attention on the drug dealer and has his men beat the crap out of him and later placed him into an acid bath before locking him up in the basement (at some point earlier the drug dealer had taken the drug himself and therefore no matter what Mr. Liu did to him he wouldn’t die. Even still Mr. Liu enjoyed torturing the man).
Mr Liu takes his position as mafia boss very seriously. He knows that assassins always go for the heart (the drug fails there), he also wants his immortally to make him tough so he can walk a desert without ever needing water to survive, and finally he feels by drinking blood one will evidently hurt the ones closest them in order to survive.
Location Sacramento CA USA
Rayflo meets up with Barry at night at a park. Barry is so excited. Rayflo asks Barry if he wished things were liked they use to be. Barry says he does want things back to the way they were when he would eat and be eaten by his Addie. Barry continues by saying that ever since Father created him he has always been Addies Hierocles (this was in the title of chapter 2 volume 1, any correlation?). As Barry is talking Rayflo interrupts and says “I meant back when you where always chasing after me” and well he is saying this Rayflo is jamming his hands deep into Barry’s stomach causing a shocked Barry to collapse to the ground with his blood spreading over the ground. Rayflo looks at a stop watch and says “Now the games begins” (OMG, what’s going on?!)
Location Italy (2 days ago – this is basically a lookback at Craig, Charley and Hal’s arrival into Italy)
Craig, Charley and Hal arrive in Italy. They immediately get to work on giving a reluctantly Charley a makeover. He needs to look like a low-level thug in order to get into the organization. Craig informs him that with the help of Corvo and Ouro he should be able to get into the Mafia prison and met up with a person being held in the basement. And no matter what happens he (Charley) mustn’t help this person. He is only supposed to get information.
As Charley is undergoing his transformation, Hal gives Charley his watch. He tells Charley to give the watch to the person in the basement. It’s the same watch his father wears. He hopes then when the person sees the watch he will realize that there is someone on the outside thinking and trying to save him (oh, how sweet Hal)
