Smith 3

One last explosion. One last outrage.

Smith is getting too old for this business. Which business? The murder, kidnap, torture, blow up business. The rocking the world on its axis, to shake some sense into it, business.

With just enough energy for a grand finale, he will need help. Most of the old crew are dead, but his apprentice, the schoolboy assassin Toby who is now accepted into the organization run by his former employers, he's still secretly loyal. And the poet who has a world of voices in his head is still in love with the ideas Smith presents. Both, like so many who meet him are also a little bit in love with the man himself.

Then there are the happy coincidences that always seem to happen around Smith. Just at the point when he is searching for the most suitable targets for his righteous anger a dying politician and a guilty, washed up journalist send him a list that includes a raping patriarch of a criminal family. A corrupt and hateful newspaper editor. A child-murdering businessman. Smith uses them as the introduction, to the big show.

And after the ear-splitting, sky-shattering climax: the come down. The sordid back stage shenanigans. More mess for the cleaners. Only once these are over and the last dregs of chaos have been rinsed from the night will he sleep.

Until then…? Well, as Smith likes to say, keep love in your heart and a gun in your pocket.