Category:Short Version of Summary

A shorter version of the season one summary, as written by User TheBorin:

McMan is a private detective in the worst hellhole of a city in the world, the Kingdom of Trolls (If you feel that this is a goofy name for a city, I direct you to “City of God” kthnxbye). He investigates, with his partner Code Name X, the assassination of a prominent company CEO. After finding that the CEO was standing in the way of the Kingpin, a powerful crime boss who virtually controls the city, they suspect a deeper conspiracy. Before they have any time to think however, the hitman behind the killing, Matrixo, attacks McMan in his office, having been sent by the Kingpin. McMan beats him back and sends him packing to prison, where the Kingpin has arranged for him to get a more lenient sentence.

After that, McMan, X, and a friendly cop named Lebron (one of few in the town), helps a renegade named Cobalt Green escape. Cobalt was an enforcer for the Kingpin until he grew tired of the work, and decided to begin informing for the police instead. Since the Kingpin has complete access to all transports in and out of the city, they have to buy an off-the-chart train ticket from Mr. Gray, an underground contact who knows everything and will tell anything for the right price. Cobalt goes off to ride out of town, but his train gets hit up by the Commandant, who is sort of the Darth Vader of the Kingpin’s forces. The train however, does not have Cobalt in it; Cobalt fooled everyone, and stowed away on a train to Mexico instead.

Episode 3 isn’t very consequential to the plot. Just know that it has a minute-long shopping montage set to “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. Some real story begins from Episode 4 on. The city’s mayor election is beginning up again, and rumored to be a potential candidate is MatterofEffort, an unscrupulous ex-cop who used to be McMan’s boss. One day, while they hang out at SoldOut Diner, the go-to hangout of the city, Matter gets attacked by some thugs, who whisk him away. They then broadcast his execution on national TV, but before they can actually murder him, someone tips the police off, and a last-minute rescue is made. After that, Matter announces that he had an epiphany and is running for mayor. McMan deduces that the Kingpin set up the kidnapping to help Matter get back into public’s good graces, since the last time they saw Matter, he was a corrupt cop. Kingpin’s business partner, Nolan, isn’t satisfied Kingpin’s dabbling in politics. The two men are on very tense terms. This blows up later on.

Later, Matter arranges for his main rival, Kane, to be assassinated by the Commandant. While the Commandant escapes, McMan tracks him down and shoots him in the kneecaps. Commandant gets away, but feels that he owes McMan revenge. The police refuses to take McMan’s Commandant story seriously. Later, Matter kidnaps McMan and allows Commandant to torture McMan by carving at his knee with a pocket knife. Then, as his own revenge for blowing the whistle on his corruption, Matter forces McMan to watch him kill a prostitute and her young son. They then leave him to die in a burning building, but Lebron and X save him at the last minute. McMan is framed for the prostitute’s murder, and arrested, but as soon as Matter is elected leader, he sets McMan free, just to show the detective what power really means.

McMan’s ex-girlfriend shows up, and shares a sob story about Nolan wanting to kill her, because her family was involved in some criminal affairs. McMan tries to refuse, but old passion takes control of him, and he assassinates Nolan to protect her. Later, it turns out that the girl was an agent working for the Kingpin to get McMan to do the dirty work for his arch-nemesis. McMan kills her for this betrayal.

With Nolan out of the way, the Kingpin is in place to take over the entire company that his criminal group uses as front. However, a pesky share-holder stands in his way, demanding rare diamonds as a price for selling over the stocks. The Kingpin abides, and has his men rob a jewelry store transporting rare jewels, Reservoir Dogs style. McMan and the police try to stop them, to no avail. McMan learns about the stock plan, and tries to dig deeper, but gets betrayed by Mr. Gray. Gray switches sides, becoming a Kingpin henchman, and cuts the investigation short by cornering McMan and beating him down with a cane.

McMan faces off against a magician-thief, who snatches away some jewels that Kingpin’s men were trying to steal. Kingpin’s men tracks the magician down, and forces him to work for them by setting up a distraction at the World Fair, so they can steal all the expensive goods on display there. He sets up the distraction well, and tries to escape, but McMan tracks him down by following some food orders he made earlier at the diner. It turns out that the magician is a dying cancer patient, whose wife is also dying. He wanted to secure a safe future for his children by selling the stolen jewels for money. McMan allows him to keep the jewels, and he swears to never cause trouble in the Kingdom again.

The McMan crew takes down a roleplaying-game loving serial killer named Forbesanton. Unfortunately, he reveals that he is just one of a team of 4 serial killers still at large. Ugh. Nolan turns out to be still alive! Nolan used a decoy the night McMan shot him to fake his own death, so that he could later get back at the Kingpin. He blows up a truck full of Kingpin’s equipments, which leads to McMan investigating. McMan gets kidnapped by Nolan, who forces him to get the location of the Kingpin’s weapons warehouse, threatening to blow up SoldOut Diner at rush hour otherwise. McMan does this, and also stops the bomb in the nick of time. He then enlists the aid of Lebron, X, and some other guys to help stop an inevitable massacre at the warehouses. The police chief refuses to give official aid, because he’s a corrupt jackass, so the operation is under-the-radar. The Kingpin learns from Mr. Gray, whom McMan beat up to get the warehouse location, about Nolan’s raid on his warehouse, and goes with his men to stop it. There’s also a little subplot about a couple of Kingpin’s assassins, a chick named Cacophony and some guy named Evilsorcerer, being in love, but it’s really boring and not that interesting. At the warehouse, the Kingpin’s army and Nolan’s army get in a crazy-ass gunfight, culminating in Kingpin and Nolan duking it out on the rooftop. In a crowning moment of basass, Kingpin stabs Nolan, jumps off the rooftop, and throws a grenade up to Nolan’s getaway helicopter, blowing the chopper up and killing him instantly.

Then, McMan’s crew moves in to arrest Kingpin, but a Mexican standoff ensues, and everyone agrees to just walk away, as opposed to murdering each other there and then. SoldOut Diner gets robbed. In the process of investigating, McMan stumbles on to a criminal racket being run by the Kingpin. The Kingpin has been selling fake stocks to businessmen, and then destroying their prices by bombing his own property, making him millions in the process. This is actually a really good episode, so you should just read it yourself. McMan feels good knowing that there’s a chance Kingpin could be taken down by the angry businessmen he ripped off.

Matterofeffort is frustrated, because a good, honest politician named Dapper, a friend of McMan, constantly trips over his efforts to pass bills. He asks Kingpin to take him out. McMan and X get hired by a guy named Big to help him capture a robber who raided his house twice in a row. The investigation leads X to a secluded location, where he witnesses the Kingpin making a clandestine deal to protect his assets from the CEOs he ripped off. Turns out Big’s wife was a Kingpin crony who fucked up and got shot, and her body was buried where they were meeting. McMan protects Dapper from Johnny, a horribly deranged Kingpin hitman. Dapper lives to fight against Matter another day. Meanwhile, a faceless, voiceless criminal mastermind named the Mastermind has been taking down scores all over the city. He has a couple of stooges named Alex and Paul rob a bank by holding a teller’s family hostage, and then poisons them to death to avoid paying them. Then, he robs the goods Kingpin stole earlier from the World Fair. McMan visits his father in prison. McMan Sr. tells McMan that Mastermind tried to recruit him for the racket as well, and suggests that bringing down the Mastermind is the way to get to the bottom of this conspiracy. Kingpin sends out all his men to capture the Mastermind, but they have NO success whatsoever so he gets mad and fires all of them. In turn, they get mad and swear to kill him. X gets summoned to a random room by Mastermind to witness a building get bombed. Commandant was also that room however, having been manipulated to show up by his son being threatened, and he wounds X badly enough that he needs to be hospitalized.

Oktrae, the city’s star reporter, teams up with Dapper and ex-president Juggernaut to get some dirt on Matter. Oktrae finds some scary looking files in Matter’s office, but he gets caught red handed before he can do anything else. McMan’s old friend, a lawyer named Robalmighty, is accused of being the Mastermind, and gets arrested as such, just shortly after the Mastermind takes down another bank. McMan learns that the police do not seriously believe Rob to be the Mastermind, but is framing him anyway to avoid looking incompetent. The Kingpin puts together an elite crew consisting of a British dude named Flapjack and Forbesanton from earlier to kill the Mastermind, but all they find is the dead body of the Police Chief, who turned out to be a Mastermind crony. They then get attacked by the traitors, who kidnap Kingpin and take him to an undisclosed location.

McMan desperately searches for a way to clear his friend’s name, until he receives a call from an old contact telling him that there is a foolproof evidence for the Mastermind’s identity. McMan shows up to the rendezvous, only for the “friend” to turn out to be the Mastermind. McMan is shot a bunch of times, and killed. Season 1 ends here.