Alvin drove Fox and the kids all the way to the Hell's Kitchen docks...
The Nautilus would surface there to pick up Alvin and the Stark family and take them out for a spin at sea.
On the way, Alvin noticed that the atmosphere in Hell's Kitchen was a little strange...
The police were especially diligent today, with officers on duty at almost every major intersection.
That wasn't so strange. What was stranger was that every intersection had a gang squaring off against the police.
They weren't fighting. They were trading insults about each other's relatives, and checking the identity of every unfamiliar face.
When it came to patting people down, the gangs were undeniably more professional than the police!
At first, Alvin thought it was Bruto and his men. Maybe they were sore about Yan Shuangying stealing the spotlight last night and had come to give the police a hard time.
After asking around, he found out that Bruto had paid John Wick and his men for their "take" last night. That had more or less won back most of the face they'd lost.
Today's "tense" atmosphere was the gangs making their position clear to everyone...
Two groups of mercenaries had infiltrated Hell's Kitchen in a single day yesterday, and everyone felt they'd been provoked.
So the gangs had decided to do a thorough sweep and drive every suspicious person out of Hell's Kitchen.
This was something the gangs were much more practiced at—and found much easier—than the police...
It was rare for these gang bosses to develop a sense of "responsibility," and Alvin was naturally glad to see it...
If he'd known that giving Beckett a hand would have benefits like this, Alvin might have given her even more support.
This was much better. The police and the