![]() She slides a coin over to Charon, who informs Winston, the manager, that an adjudicator is here to see him. A mysterious woman enters the Continental. She agrees, breaking all ties with him and branding him with the cross in the process. She takes him to the back of the theater, past training ballet dancers and ju jitsu wrestlers, and asks him what he wants. They discuss John's history: this is where he was raised. He meets with The Director and asks for her help by presenting the cross he picked up from the library. John arrives at a theater, where he is told to empty his pockets and remove his belt. He leaves the stables on horseback but is followed by two men on motorcycles. They follow him into horse stables, where John uses the horses and their powerful kicks to kill several foes. John emerges into the street and is set upon by more assassins. They corner him in an antique arms shop, so John uses the old weaponry to kill them in a vicious series of fights involving all kinds of antique knives. John leaves and is immediately set upon by a wave of assassins. After stitching himself up and taking some pills, John shoots and wounds the doc at his request to persuade the High Table that the doc obeyed the 'excommunicado' order. John's $14 million bounty is in full effect. The doc agrees to help, but has to stop stitching halfway through. So, he visits the doctor at his home address, with only five minutes to go. It leaves him with a bad stab wound on his shoulder, though. John tells him he still has time left, but Ernest doesn't care: who is going to know about a few minutes? The two have a fight which culminates in John using the book to break Ernest's jaw and snap his neck. ![]() A large man, Ernest, corners him in the bookshelves. He arrives at the Library and asks for a book, in which he reveals a hidden compartment containing some coins, a cross, a marker and a picture of him and his wife, which he kisses. With only twenty minutes until he is officially 'excommunicado', he decides to get out and run again, but not before he gives the driver a gold coin to get his dog safely to the continental. He gets into a taxi, but the roads are gridlocked. He tuns into an alley and sees the Tick-Tock Man, one of the Bowery King's spies. John runs through New York as time runs out on his 'grace period'. ![]() The synopsis below may give away important plot points. ![]()
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