[At The Trojan Ministries Church, there are fleet of cars parked outside the church. Inside, it is full to the brim with people, most of them are outside standing. There are so many people that there is no space for seats anymore. Some were sitting on the floor while Cardinal is busy uttering verbal nonsense perceived as “speaking in tongues”. A strong dark spiritual presence is felt, it’s like the devil himself is in charge. A man comes near the pulpit, picks the Bible and smashed it on Cardinal’s head. The church went silence as everyone were shocked by what just happened.]
Man: You are an evil man who dines with the devil!
Cardinal (Pretending to be injured.) Oh my head! It hurts!
[Two of Cardinal’s bodyguards hold the man and dragged him outside. As he is dragged outside, people mock him while others spit on him.]
Karado: Take him away! This is outrageous!
[Later at a certain uncompleted building near the outskirts of Nairobi city, the man is seen receiving blows after blows all over his body. He is tied up against a column in tight ropes.]
(Karado enters.)
Karado: Mr. Paul Hastings Oballah, I can see you are doing a great job. For this, I’ll personally promote you to be my personal assassin.
Paul: I don’t want to be rude but I’m afraid I can’t work for you, sir. I prefer working for Boss Cardinal.
Karado: Alright, alright. If you insist, then, you can spare some free time. You know, come around and run simple errands for me on a temporary basis. I’ll pay you three times more than Pastor Cardinal.
Paul: You are all talks.
Karado: You know what, to make you feel better, here’s a down payment cheque of $3.2 million clean money. The other half is waiting for you after you finish the job.
Paul (putting the cheque inside his fanny pack waist pouch): Now you’re talking, so what’s the job?
Karado: Easy there, son. One step at a time, give me a call or better still, visit me at my place tomorrow for more details.
Paul: Ok.
Karado: Leave your men here, I want to make sure that idiot who hit Pastor Cardinal, pays for it!
Paul: As you wish, sir.
(Paul leaves.)
Karado (At one of the henchmen): Give it to him!
[The poor man is badly wounded as the bullets penetrated his body. Several shots fired, and the man fell to his death, in a pool of blood.]
Henchman 1(to Karado): He’s dead, boss.
Henchman 2: What should we do, boss?
Karado: Well? Get rid of the body, now! Must I tell you the obvious?
Henchman 1: Right away boss.
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[At Karado’s mansion, the security officer at the gate calls Karado via a “Lumen Vault” Kenyan telephone.]
Gate man: Hello, boss.
Karado (on the receiving end): What is it?
Gate man: There’s someone who wants to see you, sir.
Karado: I already know who he is, tell him to come in.
Gate man: Okay, sir. You can come in but first, you have to write your name here.
Paul: Are you stupid? It’s as if you don’t know me. (Shows him a gun tucked in his belt trousers.) One more word and I’ll shoot you right here. And there is nothing you can do about it.
(The gate man’s whole body is shaking violently when he saw the gun. He quickly makes way for Paul to pass.)
(Enters Paul.)
Karado (to Paul): Welcome, son. I’m glad you’ve come. I saw everything you did to that poor guy outside…
Paul: (to Karado): Cut the crap and tell me what you called me here for.
Karado: Well, sit down.
Paul: I’m in a hurry, I prefer standing.
Karado: Well, I’m in a hurry too, I’m supposed to be at the church right now. So sit down and stop being childish!
Paul: Alright, boss. But make it quick.
Karado: I need to hire three of your men to do for me a task tonight.
Paul: What task?
Karado: I need them to raid Lee’s Funeral home and get me two fresh human corpses.
Paul (taken aback by this): Boss, let me make something clear, I am an assassin. My only job is to kill not to fetch dead bodies!
Karado: Your work is special, that’s why I raised the salary. I knew you are a perfect man for this job. And besides, it’s your men who will do the job.
Paul: You are nuts. You are a crazy old man to think that’ll stoop that low and do your dirty work.
Karado (angrily): You talk as if you’re so holy. I am your boss and you must do what I paid you to do! Or else…
Paul: Or else what! What old man! What are you gonna do? Shoot an assassin? You can’t kill me.
Karado: If you can’t do it, handover my money!
Paul: I will give you nothing, old man! Watch me as I leave, nice doing business with you.
(Paul leaves.)
Karado: So, you want to double-cross me and get away with my money? We shall see!
[The moment Paul steps out of the gate, a big scary black bobcat appeared out of nowhere.
Only he can see it but people can’t see it. Paul falls on the ground terrified. They all thought he was crazy, until when they saw his disfigured face. The satanic bobcat had already devoured his face. It then disappeared as suddenly as it appeared.
People gathered around Paul as he laid on the pavement dead. Constant murmurs are heard everywhere.]
Person 1: What just happened?
Person 2: Why do you ask me, I don’t know!
Person 3 (pointing at the blue gate): This is Pastor Cardinal’s assistant’s house.
Person 1: Yes it is the clergy’s house alright.
Person 2: But why here of all places?
Person 4: The clergy must be a ritualist!
Person 2 (nodding his head): I agree with you. ‘Cause how come he died here so mysteriously without anything visible attacking him?
Person 1: Let’s go get him!
Everyone (in unison): Let’s go get that ritualist!
(A large crowd is seen flocking Karado’s gate trying to knock it down. Some tried climbing the gate and the wall inorder to cross to the other side but got electrocuted instead. This is because of the electric fence.
This made the crowd very angry and hostile and they successfully ripped the gate off its hinges.
They caught up with the gate man trying to escape and lynched him to death.
They reached the house to find that Karado had already escaped through the backdoor.)
Person 4: Let’s camp here and wait for that so-called “man of God”.
Person 2: No, it’s a waste of time, guys. That ritualist has a lot of blood money at his disposal. He might be hiding somewhere at an expensive hotel.
Person 5: Or worse, flown out of the country!
Everyone: Yes! Maybe!
Person 1: People let’s all go home. I shall organize for some strong and brave vigilante youths to stay behind and man this gate.
Person 6: That’s a good idea.
(Two vigilantes were left to guard the mansion and be on the lookout for any sign of Karado. But they didn’t, they all decided to steal Karado’s belongings.)
Vigilante 1(to Vigilante 2): Hey Marcus, these people are taking us for fools. We can’t just stay here and guard this mansion. We must get something for ourselves. I mean, this guy is freaking rich!
Vigilante 2: What are you trying to say, Joshua? That we should steal?
Vigilante 1: Put it that way, dude.
Vigilante 2: No way, Josh! We might get caught. The clergy is a ritualist, remember?
Vigilante 1: Who cares? That’s just rubbish people say. I mean, look at all these stuffs, man! We can get rich just by selling all these.
Vigilante 2: I won’t, if you want to die, die alone!
Vigilante 1: It’s your call, man! You can continue to wallow in poverty begging for chicken change from youth groups while I swim in riches.
(Vigilante 1 leaves.)
Vigilante 2: Hey! You can’t leave me here all alone! Wait for me, Josh.
(No sooner had they finished packing everything on top of two trucks waiting outside, when two electric utility poles with a transformer in-between fell and crashed both the two vehicles and everyone who were near the pole. The two vigilante youths died on the spot. The funny thing is that, none of the stolen goods were found inside the vehicle.
They were all inside the house exactly as they were before the heist.)
(Inside the Enigma Hotel room in Westland, Nairobi.)
Karado: Those fools thought they could steal and get away with it. They’re dead wrong! Hail Abaddon!
(Laughing.) Ha! Ha! Ha! Scatter my enemies and I shall please you with a sacrifice! (Continues laughing.) They shall pay! All of them, one by one! (Phone rings.) Hail Abaddon!
Cardinal (on the receiving end): Hail Abaddon! May his reign continue!
Karado (in response): Till the end of our days on earth.
Cardinal: Where are you? I went to your house last night and saw that you had already gone. What happened?
Karado: It’s a long story, my brother.
Cardinal: Would you mind explaining to me how my personal assassin, Paul, ended up dead at your house?
Karado: To… to… Tell you the truth, I summoned him to come to my house for a business deal…
Cardinal: What business deal?
Karado: Uhm… My uhm… The corpses, you know what I’m talking about, Cardinal… You know my weekly tasks… He provoked me and I decided to use black magic on him.
Cardinal: And you chose to kill him in broad daylight? How can you be so foolish? Couldn’t you wait till night time when no one is looking? You old fool!
Karado: Cardinal, my son, please try to understand…
Cardinal: I am not your son, goddamn it! Let me warn you, if you ever get caught and drag me in your mess, I swear to Abaddon I’ll kill you! You hear me?
Karado: Is that a threat?
Cardinal: Call it whatever you want. You know what, I never trusted you from the first moment I laid my eyes on you!
Because of your carelessness, people will stop coming to my church!
Karado: Come on, son. Relax, I’ll come up with a solution to this.
Cardinal: For the last time in your miserable life, I am not your son! Fix this mess or else, I will mess you up! (Hangs up the phone.)