The Dog Bites Back / Live-Action TV

Times where The Dog Bites Back in Live-Action TV series.

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• In 24, Jacob Rossler, terrorist engineer, keeps Inessa Kovalesky, a fifteen-year-old Russian girl, as a sex slave; when found, she is clearly in shock, has been severely abused, and wants nothing more than to go home. When told that she has to go with Rossler (the U.S. government required Rossler's help to deal with a greater terrorist threat, and he demanded full immunity along with being allowed to bring Inessa with him), Inessa smuggles a pistol into her jacket and kills Rossler at first chance.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
  • When Mike Peterson/Deathlok gets free from Garrett's control in the first season finale, he immediately turns on him, killing him in retaliation for ruining Mike's life and turning him into a monster.
  • Hive is one of the original Inhumans, a random prehistoric hunter kidnapped and personally modified by the Kree in horrific experiments to turn it into the leader of their armies. Thousands of years later, it gets a chance to fight one of those same Kree and is clearly enjoying it despite its stoic nature.
    Hive: I'm not that frightened hunter anymore.
• In the episode "And They Are Us" from Airwolf, the leader of the bad guy's mercenary force does this in a couple of ways, including knocking out the bad guy so the heroes can escape.
• At the beginning of Season 4 of Babylon 5, Lyta Alexander is treated as a slave by the second Vorlon ambassador. She is the one who lures him into an ambush.
• Played with in the third season finale of Boardwalk Empire; Gyp Rosetti is (literally) stabbed in the back by The Dragon Tonino, but even though Rosetti has given Tonino ample cause to bite back all season, Tonino's only doing it because Nucky and Eli forced him to (although in one final Kick the Dog for Rosetti, the only reason Tonino was in a position to be threatened was that Rosetti left him behind when the shit hit the fan).
• In The Boys (2019), Adaptational Jerkass Soldier Boy was despised by the rest of his team, especially his girlfriend the Crimson Countess for openly cheating on her and Black Noir who he gave a fair amount of Kick the Dog moments to, which led to them selling him out to the Russians and telling everyone he was dead.
• Breaking Bad has many instances of dogs getting kicked then biting back. One noteworthy example is Spooge's lady: Spooge is rather abusive towards her and constantly calls her a skank, which he knows pisses her off, on top of being an all-around despicable human being who neglects his son. What better way to describe his death by her crushing his head with an ATM while he was trying to break into it than karmic?
• Cobra Kai: In Season 4, Terry Silver, upon receiving a proposition from John Kreese to return to Cobra Kai in order to prepare its students for the 51st All-Valley Under-18 Karate Tournament, initially refuses, but eventually returns out of loyalty for his former Vietnam War comrade. After Kreese constantly mistreats him, pushes his Trauma Button, and abuses his loyalty, Silver becomes fed up with Kreese...and has him arrested for a crime he didn't commit, seizing Cobra Kai all to himself.
• Charité at War: Nurse Christel denounces her colleague Martin to the Nazi authorities as a homosexual, delivering him to the concentration camp. However, Martin unexpectedly gets help and is set free — and when an incredulous Christel meets him at work and starts spouting vitriol again, Martin grabs her throat and says he'll strangle her if she says one more word.
• Cheers. Frasier in "The Heart Is a Lonely Snipe-Hunter". It was his Establishing Character Moment, and he didn't do it because he was mean or angry — he accepted being a victim of a snipe hunt because that's what guys do — and screwing the others would also be what guys do. At that moment, Frasier earned some Hidden Depths.
• The Mexican skit series Chespirito featured an hourlong segment starring "Los Caquitos." In that episode, El Botija, the self-proclaimed leader of the "gang" orders his partner, El Chómpiras, to steal a large sum of money from a pawnshop. When Botija divides the money, Chómpiras gets one bill strap, La Chimoltrufia, Botija's wife, gets two bill straps, and Botija gets three bill straps. Chómpiras protests this division since he did all the work, but Botija justifies this by saying he's the boss and Chimoltrufia is his second in command. That night, Chómpiras sneaks into Botija's apartment, steals the money, and gives back every cent to the pawnshop.
• In the Cold Case episode "Knuckle Up," the killer's son (who had himself accidentally killed someone) does this to his dad.
  Arthur Lennox: If you do this... you're going down.
  Tanner Lennox: Then you're coming with me.
• Control Z: After Pablo betrayed her and realizing that Raúl, Gerry and Natalia were to blame for her secret being leaked, Isabela turns on them by accepting the hacker's request to leak their secrets as revenge. In later episodes, María has had enough of Natalia's unfair mistreatment towards her and gives her a taste of her own medicine.
• Doctor Who:
  • "Dalek": At the end, Henry van Statten's surviving employees, including the remaining security personnel and his newly-appointed second in command, retaliate against him for the callous attitude that led to hundreds of deaths during the Dalek's rampage through van Statten's bunker by dragging him away to have his memory wiped and be dumped in a city starting with the same letter as his last name — a punishment he had previously inflicted on subordinates he deemed incompetent.
  • "The Long Game": Ambitious journalist Cathica Santini Kidane has been applying for promotions to floor 500, where "the walls are made of gold", for years, but was never accepted. Eventually, after meeting the Doctor and Rose, she sneaks up there and finds out that the people who get sent up there are actually killed and used by the Editor and the Mighty Jagrafess as part of their manipulation of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Cathica proves vital to destroying the Jagrafees by using the computer spike in her head to deactivate the cooling systems that keep the Jagrafess alive.
    "You should've promoted me years back!"
  • "The Idiot's Lantern": Rita Connelly spends much of the episode quietly fearful and afraid to stand up to her overbearing, verbally abusive husband Eddie, but when she learns Eddie was the one who turned her mother (whose face had been stolen by The Wire) over to the authorities, Rita loses her temper and calls him out for his actions, eventually kicking him out of the house.
  • "Last of the Time Lords": After the Doctor has talked down Francine Jones from killing the Master, the Master's wife shoots him after being driven insane by his abuse. She gets another chance to kill him (or at least try) in "The End of Time" when she actually sacrifices her life to try and disrupt a resurrection ritual for him.
  • "The End of Time": After the Doctor decides to Take a Third Option to prevent Gallifrey (and the Time War) from escaping the Time Lock, Rassilon attempts to kill him. Cue the Master saving the Doctor by blasting Rassilon with lightning and taking vengeance on him and the Council for using him as a beacon since he was 8 years old via the drums in his head (and thus causing his insanity).
    The Master: You did this to me! All of my life! YOU! MADE! ME! ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!!
• In one episode of Forensic Files, a group of youths (including the victim's ex-girlfriend and best friend) teamed up and killed their tormentor after dealing with his years of abuse. Here's a small list of what he did:
  • Raped his ex-girlfriend
  • Had his best friend attacked by a dog
  • Made derogatory comments about his best friend's girlfriend's weight
  • Picked fights with people at the gym
  • Got an elderly man who was attracted to him to do gay porn then showed it to his friends, then when the man refused to do a sequel, beat him up.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Lancel Lannister to King Robert Baratheon. He got Robert excessively drunk while on a boar hunt and his inebriation led to him getting mortally wounded by a boar.
  • Tyrion finally bites back against his father Tywin in "The Children" after the latter condemned him to death for a regicide he did not commit, which was simply the latest and greatest slight Tywin committed against his son, after treating him like dirt for almost his entire life. Despite Tywin's efforts to try and gain control over the situation, he gets crossbowed while on the privy. Tyrion also kills Shae (his lover) for betraying him at his trial, before fleeing Westeros.
  • In the same episode, his sister Cersei also finally gets back at her father. Tywin refuses to budge from shipping her off to an arranged marriage so Cersei plays her trump card: she threatens to destroy House Lannister by telling everyone the truth (the incest between her and her twin brother Jaime which has been going on for years). Tywin seems confused about what "The truth" is, and at first Cersei scoffs that he is merely feigning ignorance. With growing realization, she assesses that even the brilliant Tywin Lannister never noticed what was going on between his own children, when all it would have taken was one attentive moment in the past twenty years. Tywin is still apparently confused, so with a merciless grin Cersei reveals that all of the rumors about her and Jaime (and the children he thought were her dead husband's being Jaime's) are true -– she will tell everyone and destroy Tywin's vaunted family legacy, even though it will also mean her death and her son Tommen's death.
  • An almost literal example from Sansa Stark in Season 6. After Jon Snow gives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Ramsay Bolton and decides to leave the bastard at his sister's mercy, Sansa savors every second of telling abusive husband Ramsay that House Bolton dies with him, before siccing his hounds which he had starved for a week on him (making this a literal example), walking away with a Psychotic Smirk on her face as he screams in agony.
  • Daenerys, when she finally stands up to Viserys.
    Daenerys: I am a Khaleesi of the Dothraki. I am the wife of the great Khal and I carry his son inside me. The next time you raise a hand to me, it will be the last time you have hands!
  • One of Craster's wives stabs Karl Tanner during his duel with Jon Snow.
  • A literal example when Ghost kills Rast during the Night's Watch's assault on the mutineers, who had spent the previous episode reveling in tormenting him while he was caged.
  • The knights and nobles Tyrion antagonized (rightly or wrongly) over his time at court line up to testify against him by restating his words and threats verbatim (although out-of-context) in "The Laws of Gods and Men".
  • Nymeria literally does this to Joffrey on Arya's behalf when he's bullying her.
  • It's been implied that Jaime's murder of Aerys was a case of this. In the books, this is confirmed, since among other things Jaime was forced to stand by and listen as Aerys brutally raped his wife Rhaella and whilst Brandon and Rickard Stark were horrifically killed, and Jaime would "go inside" his own mind when that happened, implying that it left him with a degree of PTSD.
  • Kevan refuses to meet Cersei as soon as he returns to the Capital. In the books, Cersei wasn't allowed to meet anyone until they got a forced confession from her. But Qyburn comes and meets her before so apparently, she does have visitation rights.
  • Tyrion has been treated like crap ever since the Battle of the Blackwater, as he was maimed in an assassination ordered by his nephew, rejected by his father, unappreciated for his efforts, and forced into a betrothal he didn't want. So when Joffrey tries to organize a bedding for him and Sansa with a rape undertone, Tyrion publicly threatens to geld him with a steak knife which leads to a Stunned Silence.
  • The Unsullied were raised like animals by the Wise Masters, who mercilessly tortured them into hardened killing machines. Dany's first order lets the Unsullied show their Wise Masters just how good they are at killing.
• Gotham:
  • Bridgit Pike turns against her brothers after they mistreat her and sets them on fire. However, being free of their mistreatment doesn't free her from the prison that her own demons set for her or from the authorities and ultimately Indian Hill. She takes over as the new Firefly.
  • Tabitha Galavan has enough of the rather crappy way her brother Theo has treated her and his niece, Silver St. Cloud, when he tried to kill the latter. She proceeds to knock him out, give his parachute to Silver, and escape with Silver as Gordon arrests Theo.
• Gotham Knights (2023): In Episode 11, the GCPD arrests Stephanie's father for filling out illegal prescriptions to keep feeding her mother's addiction, and will only back down assuming she turns on her friends. She lets her father take the fall and refuses to be her mother's pawn anymore.
• In Kamen Rider Ryuki, Scissors (known in America as Incisor) has a slightly different ending than the one in Dragon Knight: when a Rider's Transformation Trinket is broken, the contract with his Contract Monster (Advent Beast) is broken as well... and the second Volcancer is free of Scissors, he promptly eats him.
• More than a few of the murder victims in various Law & Order episodes are this, but an especially noticeable one was in the SVU episode "Bully." An employee of a high-priced wine company had secretly been recording her Bad Boss screaming and hitting her. The employee was eventually murdered, but not before setting up a timed e-mail to leak the videos to various media outlets, exposing the boss for the bitch she was, ruining the business, and driving the boss to suicide. As he sees the videos on the news, Elliot says, "Well, well, well, the church mouse finally roared."
• In a flashback on Lost, Eko and two henchmen are about to fly a plane full of heroin out of Nigeria. Eko's brother and the military show up, everything goes awry, and the surviving henchman takes the opportunity to push Eko out of the plane and fly off with the heroin by himself. Of course, he crashes on the island and dies.
  • In Season 3, Ben held Jack captive with the intention of having him perform spinal surgery on Ben. Ben sent Juliet to convince Jack to do it, and she brought along a VHS of what she said was To Kill a Mockingbird. But the video ended up being of Juliet holding cue cards telling Jack that Ben is dangerous, should not be trusted, and that Jack should kill him on the operating table. Viewers were originally led to believe that she was attempting a Klingon Promotion, but she had completely different reasons for wanting him dead...
• Partially subverted in that people constantly assume that Merlin is a weak stepping stone and can't do anything about their abuse of him, but he's actually an insanely powerful sorcerer with very little problem killing anyone in his way. Protip: Calling him "nothing but a serving boy" generally means you're going to die.
• Midsomer Murders:
  • In "Death in the Slow Lane", Nerys and Bethan at first seem to accept being used by Charlotte, but knowing how she mocks them behind their backs, they only feign ignorance while they secretly record the evidence that she is actually a drug dealer and quickly show it to Barnaby.
  • The killer's entire motive for his murders in "For Death Prepare". Having learned that he's dying, he decides to exact revenge on all the people who ruined his life. This includes his former boss whose deliberate disregard for safety is the reason the killer is dying, the landlady who worked his mother to death then evicted her, his lifelong bully, and finally his former teacher who refused to give him the help he needed to overcome his dyslexia. He also torments his abusive father who's been stricken by a stroke, although he doesn't actually kill his father.
• Goldar in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Once Rita Repulsa fell out of favor with Lord Zedd, Goldar made it quite clear how much he despised her. Albeit it's possible some of it was out of being a yes-man to Zedd.
• In one episode of The Muppet Show, Beaker, Butt-Monkey assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, gets put in a duplicator. The army of Beakers, once assembled, proceed to chase and harass Bunsen throughout the episode, eventually supplanting the rest of the cast by the end, even Statler and Waldorf.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 had TV's Frank turn against Dr. Forrester a few times, though the Doc bit even harder. Notable moments including smashing Forrester in the head with a giant lollipop after he tried to make his head explode and allowing a gangster to beat Forrester up, mistaking the doc for Frank.
• Odd Squad:
  • Following his Face–Heel Turn, Odd Todd tries to murder Olive and her coworkers by releasing a pienado in the bullpen, which she eventually stops as the (initial) Sole Survivor of the attack. Over the course of Season 1, she, and the rest of Precinct 13579, are repeatedly harassed, targeted and tormented by Odd Todd as revenge. In the season finale, "O is Not For Over", Otto is approached by Odd Todd, who extends to him an offer to work together to cause oddness, which he initially accepts out of fear that Olive's new promotion to the Management department means that they'll be separated when she moves to another precinct. It's later revealed that he was a Fake Defector and only pretended to have a Face–Heel Turn as part of a plan to get revenge on Odd Todd and drive him away from the precinct, and from Odd Squad as an organization, for good. Olive, Oprah, Oscar, and many other agents also join in on the plan, disguised as various odd creatures that advance on Odd Todd as soon as Otto opens every door in Headquarters. After the episode, he's shown to be a gardener who is Reformed, but Not Tamed, refusing to help Odd Squad but still overcome with urges to cause oddness.
  • The main reason that Olizabeth, Opal's younger sister, becomes a villain is because Opal was too overprotective of her to Safety Worst degrees while the two attended the Academy, and she refused to let her younger sister unleash her full potential out of fear that she would get hurt. Since Opal was good at everything, Olizabeth became jealous and decided to drop out of the Academy to turn to villainy instead, adopting the identity of "The Shadow" and targeting Opal as well as the rest of the Mobile Unit agents. Her first known act of villainy is her attempting to drown Opal, Omar, Orla, Oswald, and their van into the Lake of Goo by hacking into the vehicle's controls, and when that fails, she decides to use a Hoist by Their Own Petard tactic and use the power of teamwork against them.
• Once Upon a Time: Jefferson (The Mad Hatter), tired of being kicked by Regina (The Evil Queen) every time he helps her, bites back by freeing (amnesiac) Belle from her prison and telling her to find Gold (Rumplestiltskin, who in this universe is also the beast) and tell him that Regina locked her up. Jefferson himself doesn't have it in him to kill Regina himself, but he knows for a fact that Gold does, especially once he finds out that Regina lied to him about Belle's death.
  • Snow, after having been screwed over by Regina and her mother Cora one time too many, including the murder of both her parents as well as the maid who was a mother figure to her after the fact, finally retaliates and curses Cora's heart and then tricks Regina into putting it back into her mother's body, killing her.
• Only Fools and Horses: All Slater's present-day appearances, and his grudge against the cast, come from being the Butt-Monkey to them as a child.
• Oz:
  • Schillinger uses Beecher as a sex slave and repeatedly abuses, humiliates, and degrades him, which culminates in him trying to have the Homeboys kill him after getting bored with him. This proves to be the last straw, and Beecher snaps, retaliating by beating Schillinger to the ground and shitting on his face. He then spends the rest of the series actively making Schillinger's life a living hell whenever he can.
  • After being bullied by Adebisi, Wangler eagerly betrays him to Nappa by murdering his innocent father figure Jarra in front of him and framing him for it.
    • Wangler himself winds up on the receiving end of it when Adebisi slips an inmate he had been bullying a gun. Said inmate immediately guns Wangler down the second he gets a chance.
• In Person of Interest Kara captures Snow and uses him to run errands for her, using the constant threat of a bomb-vest to keep him in line. She takes great pleasure in commenting on how well she's managed to break him at one point. When she doesn't need him any longer she locks him in a room and sets the vest on a timer... only he manages to get out and is waiting in the backseat of her car when it detonates, killing both of them.
  Snow: You were right, Kara, about me being dead. I'm gonna be great at it. [explodes]
• Subverted in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: when Jadeite came to Beryl when their base was being destroyed and requested her to exit, Beryl said that she's tired of being a fake queen, and ordered Jadeite to leave, but he wouldn't leave her. So Beryl removed the brainwashing from him and was surprised to see that even with free will, he chose to stay with her.
• In Primeval, Oliver Leek is torn apart by an army of predators he created. This was just following Leek himself putting Helen in his place, who had spent the majority of their Villain Team-Up acting as his Bad Boss.
• A literal example occurs in the first episode of A Prince Among Men. Gary presses a button that lifts up his garage door whilst his guard dog is still attached to it, making it appear as if he had been hanged. Later on, the dog is shown to survive, first going after Sonia, before going after Gary Prince instead.
• A major point in the 2016 remake of Roots is that, as the producers stated, they didn't want to show Kunta and his family as just passively suffering through slavery, but that Kunta retained his pride and never gave up fighting back against his enslavers. The odds are against him and he cannot fight every white man in Virginia, but the remake makes it a point to show Kunta and other slaves managing to actually kill at least a few overseers — keeping people enslaved who don't want to be is a constant, dangerous business. Unlike in the original, Kunta later directly gets revenge on the brutal overseer who whipped his back to shreds by choking him with his own gun, leaning into his face and shouting "My name is Kunta Kinte!" while watching the life drain out of the overseer's eyes.
• On Salem George Sibley had Issac whipped and branded him as a fornicator. Years later he begs Issac to help him. This trope is lampshaded by both of them and encouraged by John Alden. While torn over it, Issac ultimately tells Increase Mather when he suspects that something happened, and Sibley is rescued.
• Seinfeld: In the Grand Finale, every single person the protagonists dealt with and/or screwed over during the series returns to remind the viewers what terrible people the protagonists were, and thus doom them to prison sentences.
• In the second season premiere of Stargate Universe, Dannic, one of the Lucian Alliance soldiers, takes over for Kiva and establishes his character immediately by choking one of his subordinates when she doesn't give the answer he wants. Later on, as he becomes irrational and refuses to surrender, she shoots him in the back.
• In Silicon Valley, CEO Gavin Belson treats his product head Jack Barker like garbage after an imaginary slight, forcing him into a basement office and spying on his every move. After Belson makes a costly error, Barker goes to the board behind his back to engineer his ouster and replace him.
• In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Cardassian officer Damar, who has been driven to drink by his helplessness under Dominion rule and the abuse Weyoun heaps upon him ends up turning around, breaking two Federation officers out of prison, and starting a full-blown revolution against the Dominion.
  • In the series finale, in return for Damar's rebellion and some acts of sabotage he and his followers have carried out, the Dominion level a major Cardassian city, killing over a million people. This leads the entire Cardassian military to defect, turning the tide against the Dominion at a critical moment.
• Grunwald, a Sadist who delights in tormenting the blind patients under his care in the mansion where the Tales from the Crypt episode "Revenge is the Nuts" takes place, eventually gets his comeuppance at the end of the episode: After his warden, whom Grunwald mistreats almost as much as he mistreats his patients who is his brother and who also hates him for murdering their mother, knocks him out, said warden and his patients have him placed in a dim and narrow corridor, not unlike the horrible living condition he subjects his patients within; moreover, a more literal version of this trope takes place when Grunwald's Right-Hand Attack Dog, which he uses on anyone within the place trying to escape, gets sicced on him right as the episode ends.
• Tales from the Darkside: In the episode "Baker's Dozen", the evil witch who makes voodoo dolls out of cookies regularly torments her assistant by turning him into a mouse. The assistant vows to get even, but the witch mocks his anger. Near the end, she turns him into a mouse yet again after they had made another batch of a dozen cursed cookies. She realizes too late that her assistant had made a baker's dozen (thirteen) cookies, with the thirteenth cookie representing her. She screams in agony as her mousey assistant nibbles on the cookie...
• A literal example in an episode of Taxi, Alex rescues a dog from his abusive owner. The owner eventually comes back with the police claiming Alex stole his dog. After listening to both sides, the cops decide to let the dog choose who he wants to go with. Much to everyone's surprise, the dog runs towards his old owner. None of the cabbies can figure out why until they see the dog bite his owner on the hand.
• Utopia:
  • Wilson Wilson manages to shoot his torturer Lee and escape, but not before Lee has torn out one of his eyes. Lee is later revealed to have survived but suffers permanent respiratory problems.
  • In the series finale, Wilson's first act upon becoming the new Mr. Rabbit is to shoot Lee dead.
• Veep: After being completely sidelined for her entire first term, Selina's Vice President Andrew Doyle promises to support her re-election bid in exchange for being made Secretary of State. While making a documentary, her daughter Catherine accidentally reveals to Doyle that Selina had also promised the job to other person. Unfortunately for Selina, the election is a draw which will have to be voted on in Congress. This vote also leads to a draw, where it falls to Andrew as VP to cast the tiebreaking vote. To everyone's shock, he sends her opposing candidate's VP, Laura Montez, into the White House. Karma indeed.
• On Weeds, U-Turn was killed when he suffered a heart attack while trying hiking. Instead of getting help, his remarkably fat lieutenant just smothered him as he lay on the ground. A few too many fat jokes pushed the guy over the edge when he saw his chance for revenge and a Klingon Promotion.
• Wings had a Show Within a Show example. After Casey is turned down for a job as an illustrator, Roy asks her to look over a children's book he wrote, My Big Buddy. The book tells the story of an overweight boy named Buddy who's constantly bullied at school. Casey is touched at first but is later shocked when the child protagonist gets back at his tormenter by killing him.
• What We Do in the Shadows (2019): Guillermo the familiar spends most of the series being mistreated by his vampire master Nandor, who rarely acknowledges his presence except to complain. Despite being a shockingly effective Vampire Hunter, he gets most of those kills almost against his will (he's a really effective hunter), and takes great pains to keep Nandor from noticing. In season 3, Guillermo finally has enough and takes Nandor down in five seconds flat, to Nandor's complete and utter shock.
  Guillermo: The only reason you're alive is that I let you live.
• Attempted in the fourth season of The Wire, wherein Rawls reveals Burrell's manipulation of the stats to the newly elected Carcetti. Backfires when Carcetti lacks sufficient political clout to have Burrell fired.
• Young Sheldon: In "Pongo Pygmaeus and a Culture that Encourages Spitting", Missy finally snaps when the opposing pitcher purposely tries to hit her, and proceeds to beat him up on the filed while shoving dirt in his face and telling him to cry.
• Zero Zero Zero: Manuel and his team of commandos have been on the take of The Cartel, but when their cover is blown, they come to the cartel and ask to join them officially. The cartel leaders treat them with contempt and only begrudgingly admit them. In spite of training a small army in military tactics and showing brutal combat efficiency, they're still treated like shit by the cartel leaders. When one high-ranking captain impulsively executes a commando for not kowtowing to him, the remaining commandos and their army slaughter the entire leadership of the cartel and seize control.

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