YMMV / The Treatment (Jack Caffery #2)

• Complete Monster:
  • Ivan Penderecki, the series' only recurring antagonist, is DI Jack Caffery's next door neighbour and an utterly loathsome pedophile. Running a child pornography ring, Ivan partook in the sexual abuse of dozens of young boys and filmed the rapes to sell on to other members. Ivan also abducted Jack’s brother Ewan and rendered the boy brain dead by throwing him across a room when he tried to resist the rape, leaving it to his number two Carl Lamb to murder him. Realizing that Jack was searching for answers, Ivan waged a decades long campaign of mental cruelty against him: pretending to burn Ewan's bones on a bonfire; posting countless taunting letters to him; and even manipulating Jack's mentally ill girlfriend into giving him Ewan's toys so he could set them on fire in front of Jack. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ivan decided to send Jack on a wild goose chase for Ewan's body as a final taunt and committed suicide to prevent him from getting any answers.
  • Carl Lamb is as equally depraved a member of Ivan Penderecki's pedophile ring as Ivan himself. When Carl was just a teenager, he sold out his own sister to the ring and allowed her to be raped by its members, all whilst taking photos for his own sick pleasure; alongside raping dozens of young boys. Abusing Jack's brother Ewan alongside Ivan, Carl only backed out of killing the boy out of cowardice and, upon realizing that he had been rendered brain dead, decided to exploit him as slave labour. Continuing his depraved abuse by raping him countless times and beating him, Carl decided to use the boy to blackmail Ivan for money.
• Nausea Fuel: Roland Klare's unsettling MO involves him forcing fathers to rape their own children while he photographs in an attempt to rejuvenate himself from the act.

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