EPISODE 23Arc III: The WarNot Started

The Power Vacuum

With Vance gone, the Lobos cartel moves in. El Martillo makes his presence known.

**FADE IN:**

**INT. ART GALLERY - DAY**

A TV news report details Vance’s arrest and the massive corruption scandal rocking the city. Reign and Jonathan watch, a glass of champagne in their hands. They are the city’s new golden couple.

REIGN
To new beginnings.

JONATHAN
To us.

But their victory has created a power vacuum. With Vance’s iron fist gone, the city’s underworld is in chaos.

**EXT. ALLEYWAY - NIGHT**

A brutal, heavily tattooed man, EL MARTILLO (The Hammer), leader of the notorious ‘Lobos’ cartel, executes a rival dealer with a single shot to the head. His soldiers look on, impassive.

EL MARTILLO
(in Spanish)
The city is ours.

**INT. ART GALLERY - LATER**

Reign is closing up for the night. She walks past the main exhibit hall and stops dead. The lead painting from her opening night, her first big sale, has been slashed to ribbons. A crude drawing of a wolf’s head is spray-painted over it.

A calling card has been left.

**SMASH CUT TO BLACK.**

**ON SCREEN TEXT: A NEW BREED OF WOLF IS AT THE DOOR.**

**END OF EPISODE 23**