Chapter 1885: 1885 The Final Battle
Nicholas discovered that "LA Confidential" does not seem to have any suspenseful and thrilling effects, it is just a process of solving a case, but the huge clues are intertwined like spider webs, completely integrating justice and evil, darkness and light, A gray area that is neither black nor white is formed. The fast-advancing story rhythm pushes the huge information forward forcefully, making people tense up without knowing it.
Immediately afterwards, Ed tried to find the truth in the archives room, but unfortunately all the files Jack took disappeared, and he could only see clues, inferring that Buzz and Stance had been reporting to Dudley all along. Collusion, working with Pierce for a long time. Dudley is obviously behind the murder of the night owl!
At the same time, Dudley realized that leaving Ed was always a hidden danger—what Jack knew, Ed would know sooner or later, so he began to use Bud, who had only brute force and no brains. He first beat up "Shhhh" magazine reporter Sid severely in front of Bud, let Sid tell Pierce's inside story, and deliberately let Bud see Ed and Lynn having sex. Love the picture, in fact all this is just a play put on by Dudley and Sid, and Bud really got it. After confirming that Bud was fooled, Dudley directly killed Sid to silence him.
Bud was furious, and went straight to Lynn. In a rage, he slapped Lynn twice. Then he looked at himself in panic, and then at Lynn. He couldn't believe that he had made the same mistakes as his father. . In desperation, Bud directly found Ed who was looking for information in the archives, and beat Ed angrily without listening to Ed's explanation.
Ed was almost beaten into a daze, and Nicholas couldn't help frowning. He could even clearly feel Hugo's pain when filming this scene. Looking at Ed curled up in the corner and trembling, Nicholas couldn't bear it. I can't help but start to sympathize with Ed - he has never been an Iron Fist figure, he is doing his best to use his abilities to get justice, maybe he has never been pleasing, but he is the only one who has persisted until now.
Fortunately, Bud calmed down at the last moment. Ed said everything in time, which made Bud completely wake up. The two of them connected all the clues together. The two policemen who appeared in the garage. operatives, who had been Dudley's men all along, who had planted those criminal weapons.
Later, in a brief exchange between Bud and Ed, Ed speculates that after Mitch Cohan's organization was dismantled, Dudley wanted to take his place and take control of the city's drug trade. Stance tried to swallow twenty-five pounds of sea for carrying Dudley. lo. Because—the focus of his dispute with Buzz—he was killed.
Obviously there are more conspiracies behind this, and the case that Jack has been investigating is also inextricably linked. Finally, Ed persuaded Bud to deal with Dudley together.
Ed and Bud found the prosecutor Laut, Ed was in charge of the conversation, and Bud was in charge of the violence. After Laut rejected Ed's negotiation terms, Bud beat Laut severely, and finally died. At the critical moment, Laut revealed the truth. Dudley and Pierce planned to take over Mitch Cohan's handicap. They tried to persuade Laut to join the team. Matt overheard the plan, so he was silenced.
"Papa papa", seeing the prosecutor Lauter being hung out of the window and being forced to tell the truth, there were scattered applause at the scene, causing everyone to burst into laughter. Although everyone knows that extorting a confession by torture is against the law, but at this moment, seeing the prosecutor representing justice being beaten into a mess by Bud, there is a feeling of joy, which makes people feel happy.
Then the two went to the villa to look for Pierce, but found that Dudley had killed him first, and even left a suicide confession, taking all the charges on himself. The two realized Lynn's danger at the same time, so they ran over in a hurry. Ed entrusts the Sheriff of West Hollywood to protect Lynn.
Ed and Lynn met again, and both of them had scars on their faces. The scene was a bit funny. Ed tried to ask Lynn for more clues, but unfortunately Lynn knew nothing. Ed looked at the fragile Lynn in front of him, couldn't bear it, and took the initiative to say good things for Bud, Lynn nodded to express his understanding. It's a pity that Lynn didn't see the struggle and pain in his eyes.
Bud looked for Sid to ask for more clues, but found that Sid had died in the office. It seemed that the people Sid had offended before came to revenge. As a tabloid reporter, Sid had offended countless people. But Bud knew that it was Dudley who silenced him.
Both Bud and Ed came to the Victory Hotel. They both thought that the other party had called them here, but after confronting them, they found out that this was a trap arranged by Dudley. They had no time to escape. Surrounded by Dudley's minions, the two could only fight hard.
The two entered the Victory Hotel with weapons - this is the place where Dudley and Bud usually extort confessions from those rapes. Bud searched for a lot of weapons from corners and corners, which became their last resort.
Standing in the darkness, the air became suffocatingly tense, Ed was wearing the pair of gold-rimmed glasses, but his hair was messed up, and his amber eyes looked a little dazed and depressed in the lenses, " I just want to catch up with my father." Ed murmured in a low voice, from the beginning all the way to the present, he has deviated so far from the track that he can't tell right from wrong.
"Your chance has come." Bud looked up at Ed, and replied in a low voice, which made Ed turn his head to look over, and Bud raised his chin, "He died in the line of duty, right? "
In the tense atmosphere at the moment, this sentence carries a bit of black humor. Ed couldn't help but chuckled, the hesitation and haze in his eyes dissipated little by little in the sunshine of the smile; Bud also smiled, and smiled at Ed, the two people who once wished to tear each other apart, now Becoming teammates fighting side by side, they can only give their backs to each other and have no way out.
Before he had time to catch his breath, Ed noticed a figure on the edge of the window, and immediately shot accurately and mercilessly - completely different from the panicked gesture before, this gunshot completely broke the silence and dullness of the night. The machine gun fire from the outside sieves the entire hotel room, leaving almost no room for breathing. The shrapnel that pops up makes the corners of Ed's eyes bloody, making him look extremely ferocious—but with a little more affinity.
After a sweep, the door was kicked open, and a grenade was thrown in. Ed was stunned when he saw the grenade. He raised his head and glanced at Bud, and picked up the grenade almost subconsciously. Throwing it into the bathroom with the door open, there was a loud "boom", and the whole room shook, crumbling in the blast of the explosion.
There was no pause, another round of machine gun fire, the absolute suppression of firepower made Bud and Ed only hide in the corner and crawl on the ground, unable to move at all. The dazzling fire illuminated the entire movie theater, and the hotel room that seemed to fall apart at any moment made every audience fearful, worrying that Bud and Ed would be directly destroyed in the flames in the next moment, and there was no room for resistance .
Standing outside, Dudley saw the shattered hotel, raised his hand to signal for everyone to stop the fire, and then sent two people to confirm the life and death of Bud and Ed. The two cautiously entered the hotel room one after the other, but before they could fully enter the door of the room, there was a loud "bang", and the first person was hit in the chest, and the huge recoil made him fly out and hit him behind That person, the two of them were thrown on the spot like sandbags.
In an instant, there was a brief silence at the scene, just like a movie theater staring with bated breath, the endless silence slowly spread. At first, everyone thought that Bud and Ed were either dead or injured, at least they had no room to fight back, but they didn't want them to not only start a counterattack, but also to be so powerful.
In just a few seconds, Bud and Ed fought back, Ed stood by the window, Bud rolled to the door like a carp, and started shooting heads with their pistols , Under the suppression of firepower, Dudley's side was in a panic.
However, Dudley quickly reacted, calling his subordinates to press forward collectively while shooting for cover, so the two sides launched a close-range fire collision by the window. After the massive casualties, both sides temporarily fell into standby mode. Bud quickly changed the clips of his shotgun, while Ed's glasses lenses directly turned into spider webs. He took out another pistol from his arms, His eyes burst out with great ambition.
Bud decided to take the initiative, drilled directly from the big hole in the ground to the bottom of the foundation, and then saw a pair of feet slowly surrounding the room, and started shooting directly. Ed also seized the opportunity, opened the window, and shot all those with injured feet.
But in this short period of time, Dudley's men had already invaded the room, and one of them accurately hit Ed's arm. Ed shot and killed the opponent in extreme pain, but was fully fired by the four people who walked into the room. Suppression, can only hide in the corner to change the magazine. At this point, Bud stood up again and shot three of them, while Ed also eliminated the last person in the gap.
The surroundings fell into silence. It seemed that all of Dudley's subordinates were dead, so Bud relaxed a little and walked over to help Ed, but at this moment, Dudley appeared, and Bud At the critical moment, Ed pushed away, but he was shot twice and passed out.
Dudley walked slowly towards Ed. From Ed's mouth, he finally understood the meaning of "Roro Tomasi" who exposed his identity. He loaded the pistol and aimed the gun at Ed again. At this critical moment, Bud threw his arm at Dudley, and Dudley wailed and leaned against the wall, but at the same time he fired a shot at Bud.
At this time, the police arrived upon hearing the news. Seeing that Ed hadn't fired, Dudley proudly took out his police badge, raised his hands and walked towards the police car, because he knew that Ed was a smart man—a smart man who knew how to deal.
I still remember that at the very beginning of the movie, Dudley asked Ed, "Would you like to shoot a stubborn criminal from the back so that the lawyer won't get him off?" Ed replied, "No."
But this time, looking at Dudley's leaving back, Ed's blood-stained face was full of determination, with sharp edges and corners under the moonlight. Then, Ed raised the shotgun in his hand and pulled the trigger.