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• Complete Monster: "Nachalnik"—Russian for "Boss"—is a mysterious, powerful crime lord and human trafficker operating on the East Coast of the U.S. "Nachalnik" is secretly a seemingly mild-mannered woman named Linda Boyka who uses her position as the head of a community center to prevent her victims from escaping. Boyka is responsible for the systematic kidnapping of young girls in Eastern Europe and transporting them to the States, where they're forced into prostitution. Boyka is so utterly ruthless that even her own men are terrified of her, as they know death awaits them if they fail her. To keep her victims in line, Boyka burns cigarettes into the soles of her victims' feet to break them into submissive slaves, and her treatment of these girls is so horrific that one has died as a result. In 2005, when Mike Chulaski tries to save one of her teenage victims, Boyka threatens to murder Mike and enslaves the girl as a prostitute.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kateryna. While she was a victim of human trafficking with a Dark and Troubled Past as a Sex Slave, and ultimately just wanted someone to save her like Mike tried doing for Lena, her selfishness makes her this. Not only does she try seducing Mike so he'd take her and abandon Lena, she proceeds to kill him despite him telling her he'd come back for her once he saved Lena, then burns his feet with a cigarette butt to frame her traffickers for his death, steals and sells his boat, and lies to Lena by claiming Mike abandoned her, all so she can buy her freedom alone and make a life for herself. Over the next two years, she never tried to help Lena and when arrested, even has the gall to claim she sacrificed a lot to earn her freedom, and that Mike was no different from the many men who abused her. Self-serving and willing to damn Lena if it meant saving herself, it's hard to feel bad for Kateryna when she's arrested.