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N1B: Chapter One

When the world’s top ten hitmen compete in a last man standing, winner-take-all contest for one hundred million dollars, the only rule is to stay alive. For retired assassin Johnny Dane, getting out of the business doesn’t mean getting out of the game. Welcome to the world of high-priced contract killers and the sport into which they’ve been thrust. However, to the dismay of the wealthy men and women betting on him to win, Dane has been notoriously absent from the contest. Having left the life, he’s disappeared to an oceanfront hideaway and has vowed never to return. But when the game finds him and threatens the only woman he’s ever loved, this killer quickly realizes the only way out is to get back in.

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N1B: Chapter Three

When Johnny Dane comes to the city of Angels, you can bet trouble is sure to follow. Here in L.A. he tries to talk Richeleu into letting him out of the contest with bone-crunching results.

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N1B: Chapter Five

Ava’s stalker makes a deadly move and reveals she knows something about Ava’s past. Meanwhile, Dane wakes up in a hospital room and finds a stranger about to inject hm with a needle.

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N1B: Chapter Seven

Richeleu welcomes his daughter Ava back to Los Angeles. Eight years ago, after her mom died, Ava ran off with an assassin to God knows where to do God knows what so Richeleu’s game of having the world’s ten best hitmen kill each other for sport is his idea of revenge on the kind who destroyed his family. What he plans to do with Ava, however, is another matter completely. And one she should definitely be worried about. Dane remains haunted by his past. In his dreams he is visited again by a memory of the event that changes his life. While on a job to dispatch a man named Grober who deals arms to terrorists, Dane inadvertently kills his target in front of the man’s seven year old son. Seing the pain he’s caused first hand, in the eyes of this innocent boy makes something in Dane snap like a rubber band stretched to its limit. He runs away as fast as his legs can carry him, finally dropping exhausted to his knees. Images of Grober’s son hugging his dead father’s bloody body claw at his mind in an endless loop with no off switch, a painful memory that can only be stopped with a bullet. Dane takes his gun, the same one that killed Grober and puts it under his chin, about to pull the trigger…
In this episode, we go back to look at what happened during Johnny Dane’s first black bag assignment.

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N1B: Chapter Nine

We are still in flashback many years ago as Johnny Dane’s wet ops mission in Brazil has certainly gone tits up in a big way. After being abducted and knocked unconscious at his hote, he finds himself being held at an old run down Rubber Plantation far away from the city, in the mountainous greenbelt outside of Rio DeJanero. Captured along with him is Isabelle, his handler on this mission whom Dane may or may not completely trust. They both finally come face to face with the man Dane came down here on government assignment to eliminate. An ex-CIA agent named Acevedo who has reportedly gone rogue and turned to the Chinese. When Dane won’t divulge to Acevedo who he’s working for, Acevedo threatens both him and Isabelle with a gruesome death of being boiled alive. Quick on his feet, Dane uses a momentarily diversion to escape and grab Acevedo’s gun. In the chaos that ensues, he gets out of the building with Acevedo’s armed macanas searching high and low for him. He hides in a ramshackle gardener’s house on the plantation where he finds a way to call for backup but before he can dial out for help, he feels a gun on his neck. A gun held by Isabelle.

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N1B: Chapter Eleven

Dane’s buddy Farquar has determined that Ava is being held captive in a private penthouse apartment in Richeleu’s office building. Of course this means the only way Dane’s going to get her is figure out a way in there, but with a near army of security and bodyguards it’s not going to be easy. This is exactly where Farquar’s larcenous son Liam and his partner in crime, Hip Hop come in handy. Armed with a truckload of gadgets and pair of brass balls, Dane has a plan to get inside without firing a shot. Though, all bets are off once he gets inside. Meanwhiile, what Dane doesn’t know is that Richeleu’s right hand man, Vosler has made arrangements with Jayden to kill Dane next, an important move for Richeleu given the nearly two and a half million bucks he’s got wagered in the contest for Dane to die next. Though nobody knows where Dane vanished to, one thing Vosler says, is certain, he had accomplices getting out of the hospital, find them and you’ll find Johnny Dane.

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N1B: Chapter Thirteen

THE STORY SO FAR: Getting a momentary window of opportunity, Dane uses the destruction of a priceless painting to make it out of Richeleu’s office. Getting out of the building however, is another feat entirely. One involving a heartpounding slide down an freight elevator shaft and getting out just before the falling elevator comes crashing down on him and Ava. After taking on, and taking out the four security guards keeping an eye on the parking garage, Dane and Ava burn rubber, away from Richeleus fortress. But what they don’t know is what’s coming after them and that they’ve only just begun to escape.

Chase sequence musical score by MYN

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N1B: Chapter Fifteen

PREVIOUSLY ON N1B: Lured back to the Auto Salvage yard by Richeleu,  Dane is told that his friend and onetime savior Farquar and his family will die unless Dane trades his life for theirs. Once there Dane is tied up and beaten by Richeleu and his cadre of goons and is then made to watch as a car loaded with Farquar, Liam, Hip Hop, Toni and Ava is dropped into a car crusher from a massive crane operated magnet. Richeleu tells him that today Dane will see everyone he cares about die. Just as Richeleu is about to press the crusher’s start button, sniper-fired bullets come out of the darkness killing all of Richeleu’s goons, including the one operating the crane who slumps forward causing the crane arm to begin revolving out of control. The shooter emerges. It’s Soeren Anton. He tells Richeleu the other wealthy betters in the contest didn’t approve of the tampering and have a message for him. A message in the way of two bullets fired into Richeleu’s chest. As Richeleu falls, he grabs for the controls, hitting the button and bringing the massive car crusher to life. Soeren approaches Dane and cuts him free but as Dane turns to shut off the crusher, Soeren grabs his arm and tells him this contest isn’t over yet.

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