Restitution

Bernadette sells them all, and Kade can't stop it

In a London property controlled by Bernadette Sawyer—corrupt head of Police Scotland and underworld kingpin—Kade Mitchell presses his hands against the bullet wound in his best friend Base's chest.

Bernadette sells them all, and Kade can't stop it

In a London property controlled by Bernadette Sawyer—corrupt head of Police Scotland and underworld kingpin—Kade Mitchell presses his hands against the bullet wound in his best friend Base's chest. Minutes earlier, Bernadette auctioned off human beings, Kade and Base included. Worse: Kade's twin sister Luciella and his ex-girlfriend Stacey were both sold to unknown buyers. Kade snapped the shooter's neck and beat another man to death with a chair, but the guards have guns on him now. He calls Bernadette and demands she release the girls, threatening to kill her daughter and husband if they're inducted. She laughs and hangs up. They shackle him and drag him to the cells while medics carry Base away on a stretcher. The girls are already gone.

Stacey's new master removes his mask and wraps her in a blanket

Stacey is taken to an underground induction floor and shoved into a room with a four-poster bed, leather restraints, and a rack of blades. She grabs the largest knife and waits. Her masked buyer enters—tall, blue-eyed, silent. She lunges to stab him; he catches her wrist and disarms her. Guards force her to kneel, and the man wraps his belt around her throat until she can't breathe. Once they leave satisfied, the mask drops. It's Tobias Mitchell—Kade's father, a convicted killer who escaped his American institution after Stacey missed her weekly visit. He wraps her in a blanket and pulls her into a hug. Luciella, he explains, is being hidden by Base's Russian family through a separate deal Tobias brokered. Now they need to escape.

Chris fabricated a sex tape that destroyed two relationships

The narrative reaches back years. Stacey wakes naked in Jason's bed—Kade's older stepbrother—her body covered in bite marks and bruises, no memory of the night. Jason is equally horrified, believing she was his fiancée Giana. Neither remembers consenting. Stacey's stepbrother Chris, who has abused her since she was fourteen, drugged them both and orchestrated the assault as punishment for her being with Kade. When Kade received an edited clip making it look consensual, he told Stacey she was dead to him, beat Jason bloody, and vanished. Broken and hollow, Stacey climbed the railing of the Erskine Bridge ready to jump. Jason, face smashed from Kade's fists, talked her down with gentle questions about her favorite movies and family, then drove her home. He vanished too. Bernadette captured Kade shortly after.