Old Kent intervened in the police station incident on Alvin's behalf, settling the matter once and for all.
Having Old Kent bring workers to build a new wall for Beckett showed that Alvin would continue to support her work.
The gangsters saw their "king" had spoken, so they had no choice but to leave reluctantly...
The days when a disagreement with the police immediately turned into a shootout were beginning to fade into the past. The most vicious criminals would no longer brag about how many cops they'd killed.
Alvin's wall kept the police and the gangs firmly on opposite sides...
Black and white couldn't blend, but they could give rise to a vast gray zone.
And the Gray Zone would give those who came to Hell's Kitchen a new way to survive.
These people on the fringes of society would make their way through the Gray Zone...
In the end, they would decide whether to become good people and find the new life they'd been seeking...
Or fall into depravity and become criminals with no way back!
In the past, people in Hell's Kitchen had no choice. Now, little by little, they were starting to have one...
From the moment the police station no longer needed Alvin's support to stand on its own, Hell's Kitchen truly began to change.
And that "change," starting at that unremarkable school, had begun to make its way into every aspect of Hell's Kitchen.
A poor sap who came to Hell's Kitchen once had only one choice: buy a gun to protect himself, then join a gang.
Now he could work security at a nightclub, drive a dancer around, or even deliver marijuana...
There were all kinds of jobs, legal, illegal, or somewhere in between, that could put food on their table.
Once they