3/12/2025 Kick Recap - "Too Many Loyalties"
Lang gets a call from Arush who lets him know he left 1000 bullets in the jacuzzi. Lang grabs the bullets and stashes them in the Forge. Annoyed with nobody being awake before Tsunami, he watches trailers on his phone. Tsunami hits Lang wakes up at the apartments and runs into Officer Ventura, threatening to kill him, but decides to hit him with his car on the way out. Lang picks up Skipper from the Forge and hits CJ on the way out, they find someone (Glitch - Farenheit's other character) waiting outside of Blarney's and press him for being on the block. He claims he did a job for Saab and was waiting to follow up, but Lang shoots at his car until he races off. Skipper asks Lang if he was interrogated by the cops, because last night the Faceless told them a bunch of information about Shang and Brandon Valentino working with them. Lang is extremely confused, so they race back to the Forge and talk in privacy. Lang ignores CJ as she greets them outside the Forge, while him and Skipper run to the washer room.
Skipper continues to recap the evening by disclosing that Shang and CJ are very close and talk about the Faceless in privacy. Skipper shows Lang a video of someone being murdered with a bunch of logos flashing on the screen. Lang thinks that killing Shang will unroot CJ, but Skipper isn't sure if it will work on CJ. Lang thinks that Skipper is defending CJ too much, and reminds him that attitude will get him killed, too. They want to talk to CJ, so they head up to the Grapeseed airport hangar and ping her over. A heavy fog rolls in, Lang notices someone scurry by so he runs over and holds them up at gun point. They come across a homeless person who is looking through the garbage, Skipper seems off put that they're carrying a deer head around, but the person refers to it as their pet. Lang leaves them alone and apologizes for disturbing them.
CJ arrives and wants to tell Lang about last night, but Lang jumps the gun and asks about her relationship with Shang. After a very frustrating back and forth, CJ tries to argue that they are friends, but she doesn't trust Shang entirely. Lang doesn't think that you should be friends with people like that, and argues that she gets involved in too many things for her own good. CJ grows upset with Skipper for running to Lang about Shang's involvement with the Faceless, and then with Lang stating that she already disclosed most of Shang's involvement with Pestilence weeks ago, but he refused to hear her out. He refuses to hear her out again, by circling back to Shang, stating that he wants him dead, and that he doesn't trust CJ at the current moment for being defensive. Lang presses both of them for being friends with Shang, Skipper argues that he isn't, but CJ denies it as they argue. Lang wants to kill Shang, and hopes that he finds nothing in his phone. Lang leaves without either of them, eventually hearing from Saab who just woke up.
Lang meets Saab at a new location, starting to question him about the man he met outside Blarney's earlier. Lang presses him for sending the random man to kill a cop for him, Saab argues that he was vetting the guy, but apologizes for being wrong. Next, he asks Saab about Shang and CJ, Saab thinks they're best friends. Saab has seen CJ with Shang multiple times, he even gifted her a shotgun for free. Lang and Saab head down to the ADMC block to investigate. Saab tells Lang how they held the DOC up last night and exchanged information while they were looking for Lang. Opal told them that Lang was interrogated about Cassie, and that he gave up some information, but they weren't told what it was. Lang doesn't care about this, and brushes it off. Shang calls Saab back, he tries to arrange a gun deal as a front for them to kidnap him. Lang changes vehicles and vents to Saab while they look for Shang around the city, hoping to stumble upon him.
