YOUNG MAZINO is a 27-year-old errand boy for the Korean mob who does odd jobs at a gun store and hates every minute of it—especially his creepy boss: Schecter. Mazino does not respect authority and moonlights for rival gangs. His Uncle, Mr. Sang Dog, is the big boss and the only reason Mazino isn’t lying in a ditch somewhere. He flirts with danger at every turn, and risks it all to not only help Tom escape, but to find a new life for himself.

SCHECTER LEE is a 55-year-old gun runner for the Korean Mob who owns and operates a drug and gun front in Queens, NY. He is a ticket-taking, worker bee incapable of disrespect or insubordination. But Schecter has a dirty secret that, if it were exposed, would ruin his life. So he keeps a low profile and does what he’s told. When his boss makes him work with the unpredictable Young, his secret and his livelihood are put in jeopardy.

SANG DOG is a 60-year-old former HR manager at Samsung and Korean mafia strong man who runs a drug, gun and prostitution ring in Queens, NY. His power is unmatched and his reach is long. Sang Dog is not a man you cross. His only rival, a Greek mob boss by the name of Nic, is coming for his crown, forcing Sang Dog to use the full weight of his unchecked influence and firepower to prevent that from ever happening.

SPAWN WU is Mazino’s friend and blunted-out Guy Friday who helps execute all of his most hair-brained plans. Spawn drives a loud, yellow super-car that is his calling card.

HYOBEE MAZINO is Mazino’s mother and sidelined one-time crime boss. Once upon a time Sang Dog sent her back to Seoul, and she never forgave him and never put to bed the idea of exacting her revenge on him.

NEPHEW JOSEPH is Ronnie’s sister’s son and this rotten apple didn’t fall far from her poisonous tree. Joseph is a dirty NYPD narcotics officer who uses his power and station to control others and benefit himself. He’s in charge of an elaborate digital sting operation where he collects and controls gang communication in Queens.

SPECIAL AGENT MARQUES GATTRELL is a DEA climber with big ambition and even bigger problems. As a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Gattrell finds himself surrounded by confiscated product and at the spear’s tip of temptation. He will do anything to expedite promotion, and bends every rule to make it so.

MINTON CULBREATH is Tom (And Mazino’s) parole officer. A straight-laced ex marine, Minton is most at home in the middle of red tape lifestyle. He is a bureaucratic machine with no off switch and no room for error. High-and-tight, by-the-book. All day long.

SHAWN the owner and proprietor of Dawn’s Pawns, is a low-level broker with an encyclopedic knowledge of collectibles, antiques and ephemera. For Shawn, the law is merely a guide line to be followed only when it suits him.

SUNIR THE MAILMAN Sunir has been the Mancuso’s mailman for 30 years. He knows everything about them, their neighbors and the neighborhood. Sunir is Tom’s default lifeline to the wider world and shares Tom’s hatred of Ronnie.

FATHER FREDRICO is a 40-year old Catholic priest who doesn’t have room for interpretation of the good book. Unconcerned by the modern reformation, his particular brand of fire and brimstone lights a warm glow in Ronnie’s cold heart.

Act One (Episodes 1-3) 

In this act, we find Tom and Mazino in the perfect hideout: A foreign country on strict Covid lockdown where everyone is wearing masks. Mazino’s mother, an old battle axe in her own right who holds a deep grudge for Sang Dog, harbors the fugitives but does not trust Tom. Similarities of his relationship with Ronnie begin to take hold. Mazino takes a massive risk by borrowing millions in start-up money from a rival Korean Loan Shark and uses it to create a HAM radio network that super-charges his cousin’s North Korean poppy smuggling operation. Back in the states, everyone is house-bound because of Covid-19. Ronnie doesn’t wear a mask and quickly becomes even more of a pariah but finds a new suitor in a septic company owner. The NYPD disciplines Joseph and puts him at a desk job where he bides his time searching relentlessly for Tom. The act ends with Cosmos assuming power of the Greeks which triggers a war between the Greeks and the Koreans. 

Act One (Episodes 1-3) 

Mazino lays low in Mexico trying to find a buyer for Santa Anna’s gun and a way back to Korea. After finding dead ends at every Mexican auction house, Mazino attends the Telemundo version of Antiques Road show and piques the interest of one particularly rabid viewer: Ramon Orosco, the head of the Zeta drug cartel. Tom and Mazino’s Mom are locked away in a hideout avoiding more Korean thugs. Tom and Mazino communicate via Ham radio as Tom and his mother grow deeply codependent. Joseph’s pact with Sang Dog crumbles after Cosmos takes control of his turf, and Joseph is forced into early retirement. Ronnie finds herself in an assisted living facility learning to walk again. She is broke and desperate for money when Kiki and Geri make an offer on her house.

Act One (Episodes 1-3) 

Agent Gattrell of the DEA leads a task force to take down the Cartel. Joseph, hell bent on revenge, dimes all the information he needs to intercept their communications over the HAM network. Things start going very badly for Ramon and Tom is to blame. Ramon begins to believe that Tom is nothing more than a bad luck charm. Mazino, afraid for his mother’s life tries to plan an escape from the cartel, but his mother will not go without Tom. Ronnie, living in squalor, gets word that her Septic lover died and left her everything. With her new-found fortune, Ronnie buys a fancy house on Long Island’s North shore and begins exacting revenge on her enemies. Sang Dog reemerges as the underground boss and Joseph gets lost in power.