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Episode 1: Back to School

  • Nick and Stoddard's opening case has them take down a crooked poker game involving massive amounts of drugs that ends in a gunfight and car chase.
  • Nick manages to personally take down a small army of hoods attacking a school in order to try and rescue the person he's out to arrest. At this point, he's just an ordinary street cop and he's already working like an action hero.

Episode 2: Checking Out

  • Nick leads an epic chase through a hotel, while dealing with yet another group of criminals out to slaughter an informant. He manages to chase down his quary while dealing with both his defenders as well as assassins.
  • Nick and Khai proceed to drive a military vehicle through downtown Miami, smashing through the cars of assassins, before delivering their captive to Dawes. He's less than impressed with all the damage they did, though.

Episode 3: Gator Bait

  • Khai and Nick head out of their jurisdiction to find where cocaine is dropped from airplanes into the Everglades. They use an air boat to try to track down all of the locations so the drugs can be tracked.
  • Nick wrestles an alligator when he's attacked by one. He ends up being rescued by Khai spreading it through the snout.
  • Nick manages to bullshit his way through a conversation with a drug dealer by simply pretending that the man he was trying to attack was in the bathroom.
    Drug Dealer: "Who is this?"
    Nick: "Uh, yeah, it's Antonio."
  • Khai and Nick manage to go after a drug lord's criminal empire at an abandoned water park.
  • Khai and Nick proceed to do a warehouse assault together, finally putting the crooks on the backfoot. Sadly, it ends with Stoddard killing their quarry.
  • Nick throws the money offered to him back in Stoddard's face.

Episode 4: Case Closed

  • Nick and Khai devote themselves to taking down Stoddard, starting with going to piece together where his home base is by collecting evidence at an already-cleared out crime scene.
  • Nick manages to take down Stoddard's entire grow house supply and ironically ends up leading Stoddard out of a mercenary assault that almost kills him.
  • Stoddard gets a moment of awesome by saving Nick's life as Nick was arresting him.
  • Stoddard and Nick team up despite the fact the former is a Dirty Cop to rescue Khai from a mall during a hurricane. Nick manages to rescue her and leads Stoddard to the drop off point, only to be betrayed.

Episode 5: Gauntlet

  • Nick is freed by Tyson blowing up his prison transport and making use of his old minion, Tag. Nick proceeds to sneak past dozens of police officers, armed only with a Taser at best, before reaching Tyson at a water tower across a rural community.
  • Nick has the option of blowing up a meth lab in order to provide himself a distraction while he tries to escape.
  • The police eventually employ helicopters to try to take down Nick, which he has to avoid the lights of to escape.

Episode 6: Out of Business

  • Nick and Tyson join together in an assault on a Korean mafia used car dealership that end in a massive stand-off.
  • Nick and Tyson proceed to assault a junkyard in order to rescue Boomer. They find him in the back of a car trunk that was about to be crushed. From there, Nick blows up a fuel tank and ends up blowing up the junkyard's garage before fighting his way through a bunch of goons then leading a high speed chase through a river levy.
  • Nick and Tyson end up taking down the Korean mafia's The Don in an assault on his trainyard base, stealing 2,000,000 dollars in cocaine (and losing it almost immediately).

Episode 7: Glass Houses

  • Nick and Khai break into Roark's mansion after cutting the power. It is a very tense scene that eventually gets interrupted by all of LA's crimelords arriving to a meeting early. Khai goes after Stoddard and Nick goes after Roark's money, ending up planting a bug before Roark sends an army after him. Khai manages to save Nick's life, though, showing she's changed at least a little bit.

Episode 8: Sovereign Land

  • Nick and Boomer are captured by Tony's militia and they proceed to break out, escape a nuclear missile silo and then go through their compound before stealing a car to escape.
  • Nick and Boomer fight off a massive attack on a gas station by Tony's militia.
  • Dune breaks her arm and leg but manages to patch herself up enough to go Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
  • Nick uses a WW2 gunner's turret to utterly wreck Tony Alpert's militia.
  • Nick has a tank fight with Tony Alpert, shooting down helicopters providing him support.

Episode 9: Independence Day

  • Nick and Khai break into Preferred Outcome's headquarters, where Dawes has made his penthouse at the top of the skyscraper. They sneak or fight their way past multiple mercenaries and when trying to break into Dawe's vault, have to battle a small army of Private Military Contractor forces.
  • Nick and Khai try to zipline down to the ground level, the zipline gets caught in a helicopter and Nick manages to survive being thrown around before landing on the ground before the copter crashes.

Episode 10: Legacy

  • Nick goes on a solo mission against Dawe's compound, defended by the entirety of his remaining forces. He can actually avoid the vast majority of these by exploiting the terrain and get to Dawes without firing a shot.
  • Nick says he agrees with Dawes "Not So Different" Remark and guns him down.
  • Dawes does a Thanatos Gambit, knowing Nick will refuse his offer to We Can Rule Together. He then dares him to do better.

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