Jacket

Jacket, also known as The Masked Maniac, is the main protagonist of the indie top-down shooter videogame series Hotline Miami. He serves as the main protagonist of Hotline Miami and later returns as the non-playable overarching protagonist in its sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. He also serves as one of the main protagonists of Payday 2. Throughout the series, Jacket does not speak a single line of dialogue.
Originally part of a US special forces unit known as the Ghost 
Wolves during the Hawaiian Conflict, Jacket eventually signs up for a 
patriotic movement known as 50 Blessings
 three years after the death of his best friend and comrade, Beard. Soon
 after, through strange phone calls left on his answering machine, 
Jacket takes on several jobs which involve killing many criminals tied 
to the Russian Mafia and donning several animal masks along the way, all while seemingly losing his grip on reality.
==Biography==
===1985===
In a historically alternate turn of events, the final years of the Cold 
War escalate to the point of military conflict between the United States
 of America and the Soviet Union, for reasons which are never made 
clear. Jacket is one of the many American soldiers defending Hawaii from
 Russian forces.
====March====
On March 17, Jacket is seen in a bar with his friends and fellow 
comrades Beard, Barnes and Daniels, collectively part of the special 
forces unit known as the Ghost Wolves. While Barnes and Daniels are 
engaged in a drinking game, Beard tells the two of them that he feels 
drunk and leaves the bar to head back to their camp, with Jacket 
following him. Outside, Beard and Jacket are stopped by journalist Evan 
Wright, who asks them if he can take a photo of them with a Polaroid. 
Jacket and Beard step out into the sun and have their photos taken, with
 Beard putting his arm around Jacket while Jacket flashes a peace sign 
for the camera. At Beard's request, he receives a copy of the photograph
 before departing back to camp in a jeep.
Later that night, Jacket is seen chain-smoking at the Ghost Wolves' camp. Their commanding officer, a US Army Colonel,
 briefs Beard on their next mission: to ambush a nearby Soviet camp. The
 Ghost Wolves successfully wipe out the Russian forces without any 
casualties. The group takes the surviving Soviets hostage, with Jacket 
holding them at gunpoint while Barnes beats up a larger captive. Daniels
 finds some Russian intel in a nearby hut and informs Beard that they 
can show it to the Colonel.
====October====
Many months later on October 25, the Ghost Wolves have set up camp 
by the beach, discussing what they wish to do after the war, with Beard  
thinking about opening up his own convenience store back home, while 
Jacket remains silent, sunbathing. Beard greets then greets the Colonel,
 who is visibly drunk. The Colonel cynically announces that he is being 
promoted to Lieutenant General, and sends the Ghost Wolves off on their 
next mission, lamenting that they might lose the war anyway. The Ghost 
Wolves assault a Russian-occupied hotel that the Americans have been 
trying to capture for weeks, but succeed in killing off the rest of the 
Soviet forces defending it and occupy it for the rest of the day.
On October 30, the Ghost Wolves are informed of their last 
mission: to launch a borderline suicidal attack on a power plant heavily
 occupied by Soviet forces. Jacket is seen with the rest of his 
squad-mates while they complain about the mission, until their 
commanding officer suddenly walks into their tent wearing the skinned 
face of a panther as a mask, with a circle with three lines across 
carved into its forehead. The General fiercely rambles that they are 
animals being sent to kill or be killed and declares that violence is 
part of human nature and they love it. As Beard nervously speaks up, the
 panther skin slides off the General's face, who snaps out of it, saying
 he may have had too much to drink and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the Ghost Wolves prepare for their last 
mission. The General gives his final briefing to Beard and, knowing that
 their mission will likely end in tragedy due to them walking into a 
trap, tells him that he is proud of the Ghost Wolves before sending them
 on their way. The Ghost Wolves manage to wipe out the Soviet forces 
occupying the power plant without any casualties, cornering a Russian 
general, who has killed all of the engineers before shooting himself in 
the head. However, an alarm goes off in the power plant, indicating that
 the Soviet officer had put the power plant in meltdown before he 
committed suicide. Jacket and Barnes run to an elevator, which 
unfortunately happens to be booby trapped, setting off an explosion 
which blows Barnes in half and wounds Jacket. Bleeding out, Jacket is 
lifted up by Beard and carried into safe elevator, while Daniels stays 
behind with Barnes, who is barely alive. Beardand Jacket make it out of
 the power plant through an underground tunnel before it explodes. As 
reinforcements arrive nearby, Beard angrily requests for a CASEVAC on 
the radio due to Jacket's life hanging in the balance. Beard reassures 
Jacket that he will make it, with Jacket stretching his arm out towards 
Beard after he had saved his life. Beard tells Jacket there is no need 
to thank him and gives him the photograph of each other as a memento.
After this, it is presumed that Jacket's wounds are tended to and
 the two are discharged from the military, with Jacket heading back to 
Miami while Beard heads back to San Francisco.
===1986===
On April 3, months after the suicide mission, Beard has opened up 
his own convenience store in San Francisco and is talking to Jacket over
 a phone, showing that they have maintained their friendship. It turns 
out that Jacket is currently dealing with a breakup, and Beard consoles 
him over the loss of his girlfriend. Beard then requests for Jacket to 
send a copy of their photograph to Beard if he gets the chance. Seeing a
 crowd gathering around in front of his store, Beard tells Jacket that 
he has to go and hangs up. Wondering what is going on outside his store,
 Beard steps outside only for Beard, the crowd and the entire 
convenience store to be completely wiped out by a large explosion.
It turns out that the Soviet Union made one final retaliation 
towards the United States by dropping a nuclear bomb on San Francisco, 
resulting in the deaths of every citizen there, including Beard. The 
bombing effectively ended the war between Russia and America, and a 
coalition between the two countries was put in place to prevent anymore 
catastrophic events from happening.
===1989===
Over the course of three years after the Russo-American coalition was 
put in place, many Russian immigrants move to the United States, 
gradually leading to many American citizens to grow resentful of 
Russians. Anti-Russian sentiments are further pushed when Russian 
organized crime syndicates begin to dominate the criminal underworld of 
Miami and grow more powerful through political connections, possessing 
military weaponry and profiteering from the drug trade and many other 
illegal activities. During this time, an American ultranationalist 
patriotic organization called 50 Blessings was formed in retaliation.
====April====
In a dark building with a surreal atmosphere, Jacket is greeted by 
three entities in animal masks: Don Juan, a woman in a green dress 
wearing a horse mask who is concerned for Jacket's mental well-being; 
Rasmus, a man in a white suit wearing an owl mask who shows Jacket 
nothing but hatred and disgust; and Richard, a sinister man in a 
letterman jacket (the same outfit Jacket wears) wearing a rooster mask 
who seemingly warns Jacket of what is to come in the future. Don Juan 
ponders if Jacket even he knows who he is, but considers that it may 
have to be kept that way by telling Jacket that he has done terrible 
things as of late. Rasmus rudely asks why Jacket is here, and tells him 
he is not welcome here. Richard, however, states that he knows who 
Jacket is, asking him if the date "April 3rd" means anything at all to 
him in an attempt to jar his memory.
On April 3, exactly three years since the San Francisco 
incident, Jacket wakes up in his apartment to find a seemingly misplaced
 message on his answering machine: "Tim" from the bakery has left some 
cookies and ingredients at his front door. Jacket finds a package 
outside, not containing any cookies or ingredients, but a rooster mask 
and a list of instructions inside. The instructions tell him to find a 
briefcase and leave it inside a dumpster in a specific alley, 
emphasizing that "Failure is not an option. We'll be watching you." 
Jacket leaves his apartment and drives to a metro station occupied by 
armed men in white suits. He puts on his mask and kills all of the 
mobsters there, as well as a man in a trench coat carrying a briefcase. 
He retrieves the briefcase and leaves the scene, driving to his next 
destination. After leaving the briefcase inside a dumpster, a homeless 
man armed with a baseball bat corners Jacket after he had stepped into 
his territory, and Jacket is forced to kill him in self defense. Feeling
 nauseous from the murders he committed, Jacket rips off his mask and 
vomits. Successfully carrying out the orders given to him, Jacket leaves
 the crime scene. Afterwards, he seemingly visits Beard at his 
convenience store, despite him dying three years prior to the nuclear 
explosion. Beard happily greets him and, assuming he is out for a 
midnight snack, offers Jacket to take something from his store for free.
 Jacket takes a pack of beer and heads home.
After each hit Jacket completes, he collects more animal masks 
along the way. Each mask in-game offers its own perk when worn during 
each level.
On April 8, Jacket has signed up for 50 Blessings and reads one
 of their pink pamphlets: "Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! 
We appreciate your interest in our cause. America is a tune. It must be 
sung together." Jacket also receives another strange phone call: "Linda"
 says she needs a babysitter to look after some kids on East 7th Street 
and tells Jacket to "be discrete". Jacket once again complies with the 
task after seeing the warning from the instructions given to him on 
April 3, and heads out to East 7th Street. Jacket arrives at an 
apartment, once again occupied by thugs in white suits. Graffiti of a 
circle with three lines going across it is found outside the apartment. 
He puts on his mask, violently murders them and flees the scene. Jacket 
arrives at a pizzeria, which also happens to be run by Beard. Upon 
seeing Jacket, Beard has pizza ready and serves it to him for free. 
Jacket takes the pizza and heads home.
On April 16, Jacket collects some newspaper clippings about his
 previous hit. They note that the police claims the bodies found at the 
crime scene are linked to the drug trade in Miami, while witnesses claim
 to have seen a "monster" leaving the apartment. Jacket listens to 
another message: "Thomas" from the methadone clinic schedules an 
appointment for Jacket at NW 184th Street. Jacket drives to the 
apartment to find it occupied by mobsters yet again, and slaughters all 
of them. Inside, he finds a bloodied and beaten corpse tied to a chair 
wearing a walrus mask. Jacket can collect the mask if the player chooses
 to, and leaves the scene. This indicates that Jacket is not the only 
person to have been taking on these jobs. Jacket heads to a VHS store, 
once again occupied by Beard, who asks him if he has heard about the 
massacre that occurred on the previous night, joking about the scenario 
being similar to a slasher film due to the murders being carried out by a
 masked killer. Bearddoesn't consider the massacre to be too much off a
 loss though, due to the victims being "A bunch of Ruskies". Beard then 
leaves a film on the counter for Jacket to pick up for free. Jacket 
takes the VHS tape and drives home.
On April 25, Jacket collects more newspaper clippings, which 
notes that a series of gang related violence has been going on 
throughout Miami. The next message Jacket receives is from "Kate" from 
"Hotline Miami's dating service", stating that a date has been set up 
between Jacket and a girl from Southwest 53rd, concluding the message 
with "As usual, make sure you wear something fancy". Jacket drives to a 
villa owned by a film producer,
 who is holding a drugged, half-naked girl captive in his room with 
cameras and lighting pointed at her. Security cameras are placed around 
the villa, which is heavily guarded by armed mobsters. In spite of the 
odds against him, Jacket manages to kill all of the mobsters there.
As he is about to leave, the Producer, wearing a bulletproof 
vest, leaves his room and tries to kill Jacket. In retaliation, Jacket 
grabs a shotgun and shoots at the producer, knocking him down. Jacket 
blasts him two more times with his shotgun, resulting in the pellets 
piercing through the Producer's vest and wounding him. Coughing up 
blood, the Producer begs for his life, but Jacket pins him down and 
pushes his thumbs into the Producer's eyes, gouging them out and 
gruesomely killing him. Jacket finds the girl weeping, telling him to 
get it over with and end her life, having presumably been broken by the 
Producer's treatment. Instead, Jacket picks up the girl and carries her 
to his car. On the way back home, Jacket visits a bar, with Beard  
serving as the bartender. Beard notes that Jacket doesn't seem to look 
very well, but decides to get Jacket a special drink for free. Jacket 
finishes the drink and leaves.
In a dark building with a surreal atmosphere, Jacket is greeted by 
three entities in animal masks: Don Juan, a woman in a green dress 
wearing a horse mask who is concerned for Jacket's mental well-being; 
Rasmus, a man in a white suit wearing an owl mask who shows Jacket 
nothing but hatred and disgust; and Richard, a sinister man in a 
letterman jacket (the same outfit Jacket wears) wearing a rooster mask 
who seemingly warns Jacket of what is to come in the future. Don Juan 
ponders if Jacket even he knows who he is, but considers that it may 
have to be kept that way by telling Jacket that he has done terrible 
things as of late. Rasmus rudely asks why Jacket is here, and tells him 
he is not welcome here. Richard, however, states that he knows who 
Jacket is, asking him if the date "April 3rd" means anything at all to 
him in an attempt to jar his memory.
On April 3, exactly three years since the San Francisco 
incident, Jacket wakes up in his apartment to find a seemingly misplaced
 message on his answering machine: "Tim" from the bakery has left some 
cookies and ingredients at his front door. Jacket finds a package 
outside, not containing any cookies or ingredients, but a rooster mask 
and a list of instructions inside. The instructions tell him to find a 
briefcase and leave it inside a dumpster in a specific alley, 
emphasizing that "Failure is not an option. We'll be watching you." 
Jacket leaves his apartment and drives to a metro station occupied by 
armed men in white suits. He puts on his mask and kills all of the 
mobsters there, as well as a man in a trench coat carrying a briefcase. 
He retrieves the briefcase and leaves the scene, driving to his next 
destination. After leaving the briefcase inside a dumpster, a homeless 
man armed with a baseball bat corners Jacket after he had stepped into 
his territory, and Jacket is forced to kill him in self defense. Feeling
 nauseous from the murders he committed, Jacket rips off his mask and 
vomits. Successfully carrying out the orders given to him, Jacket leaves
 the crime scene. Afterwards, he seemingly visits Beard at his 
convenience store, despite him dying three years prior to the nuclear 
explosion. Beard happily greets him and, assuming he is out for a 
midnight snack, offers Jacket to take something from his store for free.
 Jacket takes a pack of beer and heads home.
====May====
Jacket finds himself back in the dark building and once again meets 
with Richard, Don Juan and Rasmus. Don Juan notes that a clearer picture
 of what is happening is taking form and says that the recent events in 
Jacket's life won't end well. Rasmus once again antagonizes Jacket, 
stating that Jacket isn't a nice person and makes him sick. Richard 
tells Jacket that he now remembers when they met, but knows that Jacket 
has no idea who he is or why they met in the first place. Before letting
 him go, Richard gives Jacket four questions to think about:
* "Do you like hurting other people?"
* "Who is leaving messages on your answering machine?"
* "Where are you right now?"
* "Why are we having this conversation?"
On May 5, the girl has since been resting on Jacket's couch, who 
has left her a bucket in case of vomiting, a bedsheet and a pillow. The 
newspaper clipping of his previous job mentions that the surveillance 
cameras caught footage of him and his murders, but couldn't identify the
 girl he "abducted". A phone call from "Blake" tells Jacket that a 
"power outage" needs to be fixed on 24th NW Street. Jacket arrives at 
the villa, continuing his routine of killing mobsters until he comes 
across a sealed room containing a man wearing a tiger mask tied to a 
chair inside. The man has explosives attached to him, which are wired to
 each of the doors to prevent him from trying to escape, while being 
interrogated by mobsters. Jacket grabs a shotgun and blasts open one of 
the doors, triggering the explosives and blowing up the entire room, 
leaving nothing left of the man or the mobsters interrogating him. 
Jacket quickly finishes off his hit and flees from the scene. Jacket 
visits Beard at the convenience store again, with Beard worrying about 
the streets no longer being safe due to the recent massacres. However, 
Beard offers Jacket to pick up any of his goods he wants for the night 
for free and wishes him to take care. Before leaving, Jacket notices a 
group of mobsters cornering and assaulting a man wearing a wolf mask, 
leaving his bloodied corpse behind.
On May 11, a newspaper clipping reports the bomb blast being 
heard all across town while multiple masked suspects have been witnessed
 elsewhere. The girl has gotten up and is about to take a bath in 
Jacket's bathroom. "Dave" from Miami pest control leaves Jacket a 
message about a vermin problem at SW 104th Street. Due to the public's 
reaction of the explosion, the caller advises Jacket to "not bother any 
of the neighbors". Jacket arrives at a house full of gangsters and kills
 all of them. After the hit is complete, Jacket can then use the crowbar
 found in the level to pry open a manhole found at the back of the 
house. In the sewers, Jacket finds a fatally wounded man covered in 
blood with a crocodile mask lying next to him. The man asks Jacket if 
everything that is currently happening is just a bad dream before dying 
of blood loss. Jacket collects the mask and leaves the scene. Jacket 
greets Beard at the pizzeria afterwards, the latter being worried about 
closing down the pizzeria due to the lack of customers. Nonetheless, 
Beard serves Jacket a pizza for free, and Jacket departs with it.
On May 13, more newspaper clippings suggest the dozens of 
victims on May 11 share connections with the Russian Mafia, with the 
police seemingly in denial of rumors concerning a possible violent 
vigilante movement. The girl is taking another bath comfortably in 
Jacket's apartment. Jacket receives another call, even though it hasn't 
been very long since his previous hit: "Don" informs him that the 
receptionist at Hotel Blue has called in sick and needs someone to take 
his place, as "VIPs" are currently staying at the hotel, sternly urging 
Jacket to give them a "great stay". As Jacket is about to leave his 
apartment, a grinning janitor
 mopping the floor near the entrance watches him pass by. Jacket arrives
 at Hotel Blue to find Russians speaking with a pair of politicians in 
the hotel diner. Jacket takes some firearms from a room behind the 
reception desk and fires upon the politicians, as well as the Russians 
and waiters, who draw their guns on Jacket. After clearing the first 
floor, Jacket climbs out of a window and sidles across to a large 
balcony. Another grinning janitor is seen watching him from a window in a
 locked room, where he is simply hoovering the floor. Jacket kills the 
rest of the mobsters, who were guarding another politician outside while
 he was on the toilet. Jacket breaks into the bathroom, kills him and 
flees the scene, sparing the lone janitor at the scene. Jacket meets 
with Beard at the video store again. Nicke is adamant of rumors going 
around that there are multiple masked assailants wiping out Russians 
across Miami, and once again compares the scenario to that of a movie. Beard tells Jacket he can pick up any tape he wants free of charge, so 
Jacket does so and leaves.
On May 23, newspaper clippings are covered all over Jacket's 
second bed. His latest clipping reveals that the politicians seen 
negotiating with the Russian mobsters had strong ties to the 
Russo-American Coalition and thus, Jacket dealt a significant blow to 
the coalition. On the answering machine, "Harry" informs Jacket of a 
pipe burst in need of fixing as soon as possible on SE 122nd Street, so 
Jacket drives there to find a large apartment complex full of mobsters. 
After he clears it out, a phone on the top floor unexpectedly rings. 
Jacket picks up the phone, with the caller telling him that a "prank 
caller" is at the telephone company, PhoneHom, and orders Jacket to 
drive to NW 342nd Street as fast as possible.
Jacket rushes to the PhoneHom headquarters and finds that every 
employee there has been brutally slaughtered. On the second floor, he 
finds Biker,
 a man in a pink vest wearing a turquoise motorcycle helmet and armed 
with a cleaver, hacking into a PhoneHom computer and successfully 
tracing the phone calls. Upon confronting Biker, the man immediately 
greets Jacket with hostility and threateningly approaches him. Jacket 
rushes and grabs a golf club out of a nearby bag and the two engage in a
 fight. Narrative-wise, the events of the fight are ambiguous due to 
both character's perspectives seeing different outcomes and both 
characters appearing alive in the sequel. However, from Jacket's 
perspective in the first game, he wins the fight by bludgeoning Biker 
across the head twice. A dying Biker cannot believe his fate due to 
being "so close" and tries to crawl away. Jacket stands above Biker with
 his golf club lifted high and smacks him across the head, tearing 
Biker's head apart. With Biker dead, Jacket flees the scene. Jacket then
 heads back to the bar, which is now empty. Beard wonders if Jacket is 
feeling alright and admits that he does not feel too good himself, 
sensing that bad has happened tonight, commenting that he hasn't felt 
that way since San Francisco, referencing his death. Beard then serves 
Jacket a cocktail for free before Jacket drives home.
Jacket reappears in the building of the three entities again, in a
 puddle of blood. Don Juan comments that Jacket looks ill, and suggests 
that he should rest or see a doctor. Rasmus is angry that Jacket has 
come back yet again, and says that if Jacket insists on coming back 
repeatedly, then he'll just leave by himself. Richard asks Jacket if he 
has thought the questions that he has asked him, but refuses to give him
 any answers, as questions are the only thing he can offer for a man 
like Jacket. Richard declares that the next time they will meet will be 
the last, and leaves Jacket with three predictions before he leaves:
* "Someone you know is not who you think he is."
* "Something will soon be taken from you."
* "On July the 21st you will wake up in a bigger house."
On May 27, Jacket seems to stop collecting newspaper clippings 
altogether due to his killings becoming a routine. As the girl has 
properly made herself at home, Jacket's apartment has now been tidied 
up, previously being messy before. Jacket receives his next job: "Pat" 
from the night club asks Jacket to be a DJ for the night club at NE 
165th Street. Jacket arrives at the night club and kills all of the 
Russian mobsters occupying it. In the dance floor on the ground floor of
 the night club, he finds the dead body of a man who had been shot in 
the crotch, with a locust mask lying next to him. Jacket collects the 
mask and leaves the night club. Afterwards, Jacket arrives at Beard's  
convenience store to unexpectedly find Biker's corpse near the entrance.
 Beard, who offers him nothing this time around, tells Jacket that none 
of what he is seeing is actually happening, telling him to look at 
Biker's corpse as a demonstration. Biker's dead body wriggles around and
 gurgles before vanishing in a flash of static. Simultaneously, a bald 
man in a green jacket suddenly appears in the bathroom. Jacket leaves 
after witnessing the bizarre series of events.
Not long after his previous hit, on May 31, Jacket receives 
another call: "Rick" from the real estate office tells him an open 
apartment is being shown at NE 24th Street and asks him to swing by. 
Jacket arrives at a heavily guarded building which houses a large 
cocaine operation for the Russian Mafia. In the middle of his hit on the
 second floor, a SWAT Team suddenly breaks into and swarms the building,
 while one of their snipers aims through the windows from afar. Jacket 
narrowly evades the SWAT Team and escapes. It is evidently clear that 
the ones behind the calls, 50 Blessings, are now deliberately sending 
Jacket on more dangerous missions. After his escape, Jacket visits the 
pizzeria only to find the same bald man in the green jacket who appeared
 in the bathroom at Beard's convenience store behind the counter, while 
Beard's corpse lies just beside him. The man, named Richter,
 is rude, impatient and scornful towards Jacket, a stark contrast to 
Beard's friendly exterior. Richter offers Jacket nothing, and tells him 
to hurry up, as the pizzeria is closing soon. As Jacket leaves, he sees a
 vision of an undead mobster petting an undead guard dog. The mobster 
tells Jacket that they don't like strangers, while the dog growls at 
him.
====June====
On June 3, "Thomas" from Downtown Relaxation calls Jacket, telling 
him that they need him to fill in at the reception due to an employee 
calling in sick. Jacket arrives at a massive bath house owned by the 
Russian Mafia. After an intense struggle, Jacket kills every last 
heavily armed mobster left in the building. In one section of the 
building, he finds the corpse of an obese man
 with a green checkered shirt tied around him wearing a cobra mask. 
Jacket picks up the mask and flees the scene. Jacket visits the video 
store, which is occupied by a bloodied Richter wielding a hammer, while 
Beard lies beside him dead. At first aggressively dismissing Jacket for 
staring at him, Richter notes that Jacket looks familiar and wonders if 
they have met before. Once again, Jacket is offered nothing and leaves.
On June 8, both beds in Jacket's room seem to have been pushed 
together, heavily implying intimacy between him and the girl. Upon 
leaving the bedroom, he has a hallucination of an undead mobster 
scrounging through his fridge, furiously telling Jacket to get out of 
his face. Jacket routinely receives another job: "Jim" from the office 
needs a report at his desk on SE 24th Street by eight o'clock. Jacket 
drives to a Mafia office building swarming with mobsters, and manages to
 kill everyone there. On the way out however, Jacket narrowly dodges a 
black van crashing and swerving into the building. Several gangsters 
exit the van to attack Jacket, while the van driver throws molotov 
cocktails at Jacket. He manages to kill all of the driver's men, 
prompting the driver to leave the van and give himself up. However, 
Jacket refuses to spare him and brutally kills the driver by smashing 
his head into the floor, breaking his limbs and lighting his corpse on 
fire before leaving. Jacket heads to the bar to find Richter behind the 
counter, while a trail of blood leads into a room at the back. Richter 
orders Jacket to leave due the bar being open for VIPs only for the 
night. Jacket sees two undead mobsters sitting at a table, with one of 
them aggressively asking Jacket what he's looking at.
Upon returning to his apartment, Jacket finds his front door 
open. He enters his apartment to find his girlfriend shot to death in 
the bathroom. He then finds Richter sitting on the couch wearing a rat 
mask and armed with a suppressed Uzi. Richter tells him he was wondering
 when Jacket would get back and guns him down. Jacket suddenly has an 
out-of-body experience, where he finds his own unconscious body in his 
apartment, which now has a dark and surreal atmosphere. Jacket finds 
Richard sitting on his couch, who tells him that none of Jacket's 
actions will matter. Jacket will never fully understand what is going on
 and everything he does from this point onwards will only be his fault. 
Saying his goodbyes to Jacket, Richard tells him that there is a bed to 
rest in across the hall. When Jacket exits his front door, he suddenly 
appears to be bandaged up and wearing hospital gowns. Jacket finds 
himself comatose in a hospital bed, causing his head to explode and his 
body to disappear.
Jacket realizes that he has been in a coma the whole time since 
his encounter with Richter, and has been reliving the events that has 
happened to him since April 3 in a dream, explaining why he has been 
having surreal meetings with his dead friend Beard, and attempted 
murderer Richter, as well as why he has been seeing visions of the 
people he has killed. It also becomes clear who each of the masked 
entities he meets represent: the concerned Don Juan appears to be nearly
 identical to the girl aside from wearing a horse mask, the hostile 
Rasmus is dressed as a Russian gangster, and Richard, who is dressed 
exactly like Jacket, has been attempting to jar Jacket's memories for 
what has happened to him by asking if he remembers who Richard is. It is
 also heavily implied that the death of Beard at the hands of the Soviet
 Union's nuke has significantly fueled Jacket's urge to brutally kill 
Russians to avenge his best friend, who saved his life back in Hawaii. 
Further indicated by Richard's questioning, it seems as though that 
Jacket enjoyed killing each Russian he came across during his jobs.
====July====
On July 21, Jacket overhears a police officer speaking to a doctor.
 The police officer is impatient, wanting to know when Jacket will wake 
up due to him being a prime suspect in the string of killings in Miami. 
The doctor is unsure when he will wake up, and the police officer urges 
him to do what they can with Jacket, since the hospital was unable to 
save Jacket's girlfriend, while Richter, who is now in police custody 
for his crimes, refuses to talk. Waking up from his coma after the 
doctor and police officer leave the room, Jacket now knows where Richter
 is being held and drowsily sneaks his way out of the hospital in his 
gowns. Jacket then heads back to his apartment by foot, to find his car 
vandalized. Inside, he finds that his apartment has since been cleared 
out and ransacked, while the girl's chalk outline is still visible on 
the floor.
Determined to find the man that took everything away from him, 
Jacket finds an extra set of clothes, puts them on and rushes to the 
nearby police station. Jacket assaults the police station, 
single-handedly killing many of the police officers. Upon reaching the 
third floor, the police chief holds a defensive perimeter in 
anticipation of his arrival, but Jacket manages to kill the chief and 
the rest of the officers.
Jacket grabs a set of keys, unlocks Richter's cell and corners 
him. Surprised to see Jacket alive, Richter apologizes for the murder of
 his girlfriend, assuring him that killing her was no personal vendetta,
 but tells Jacket that he doesn't have any answers for him. Jacket 
attacks Richter by either non-fatally shooting him, hitting him in the 
face with a baton or simply punching him. Richter then tells Jacket that
 they might not be too different from each other: he reveals that he has
 been getting the same strange phone calls as Jacket has, and has simply
 been carrying out orders, concluding that he was likely sent by 50 
Blessings to take out Jacket. He informs Jacket that the police may have
 a file on the case somewhere in the precinct. Richter then says he 
hopes Jacket will spare him, but, thinking that Jacket has already made 
up his mind on what to do with Richter, willingly accepts his fate. 
Depending on the player's choice, Jacket can choose to either strangle 
Richter to death or spare him. Due to Richter appearing to have survived
 the events of 1989 in the sequel, it is assumed that sparing Richter is
 the canon choice. After either killing or sparing Richter, Jacket 
steals a police file on the case and flees the scene.
Back home on July 23, Jacket has scattered the police files on 
the floor in his apartment. Looking through them, he finds that 
different suspects have been threatened and instructed by the phone 
calls to carry out murders. The police file states that the calls appear
 to have been traced to a club on South 86th Street with ties to Russian
 organized crime. Despite the files claiming this to be insufficient 
evidence for a warrant, and the location not actually being the true 
source of the calls, Jacket unknowingly concludes that the Russian Mafia
 is the one sending out the calls and blindly sets out for revenge. 
Jacket fights his way through the club, killing every mobster there 
before reaching the club manager. The manager tells Jacket that he can 
take the money out of a nearby open safe, and begs Jacket not to kill 
him as he does not actually own the club. Feeling threatened, the 
manager falls back and fearfully reveals the address of the Mafia 
headquarters, NE 144th Place, further begging for his life. Jacket 
ignores his pleas, and beats the manager to death, using his bare fists 
to smash his skull apart. Jacket immediately rushes to his car and 
drives off.
Arriving at the boss' mansion, Jacket swiftly kills the guards at
 the entrance before making his way up the stairs. He confronts The 
Father, the underboss of the Russian Mafia, guarded by his two pet 
panthers and a female bodyguard armed with a katana. The Father quickly 
deduces that he is one of the people wiping out his men and sends his 
panthers to kill him. Jacket grabs a nearby trophy and uses it to 
bludgeon both of the panthers to death. The Father's bodyguard then 
tries to attack Jacket, only for him to throw the trophy at her and 
knock her down. Jacket then grapples her down and kills her by 
repeatedly bashing her head into the floor. The Father is fascinated by 
Jacket's lust for blood and personally challenges him, hoping to see 
"who's hiding behind that mask". The Father grabs a pair of MP5s and 
starts firing at Jacket, who uses the fountains in the room as cover. 
Jacket grabs two of the bodyguard's throwing knives and throws each of 
them into The Father's hands. Defenseless and seeing the odds stacked 
against him, the Father taunts Jacket, telling him he'll spare Jacket 
the pleasure of killing him by pulling out a pistol and shooting himself
 in the head.
After the Father's suicide, the phone on his desk rings. Jacket 
picks it up and listens to the voice on the other end of the line, 
asking what is going on downstairs and exclaims that he is trying to 
sleep. Receiving no response, the man on the other end angrily hangs up.
 Jacket grabs the Father's gun and heads to the top floor in an 
elevator. He finds the boss of the Russian Mafia, the Grandfather, a 
wheelchair-bound elderly man. Initially asking what Jacket wants, the 
Grandfather decides to cut to the point and accepts his fate, saying 
that he has done terrible things. He tells Jacket to do what he came to 
do, so Jacket complies, shooting the Grandfather in the head. Jacket 
heads out to the balcony, rips off his mask and lights a cigarette. 
After finally wiping out the Russian Mafia, and finding his own way to 
avenge Beard's death, Jacket no longer sees a reason to fight. He takes 
out the photograph of himself and Beard in Hawaii and looks at it one 
last time before tossing it off the balcony.
Not long after, Jacket waits for the police to eventually arrive and willingly gives in, letting the police arrest them.
====Legacy====
In the 1991 setting, Jacket remains incarcerated while 50 Blessings 
cease their operations for a while. But despite remaining in prison for 
his crimes, Jacket garnered an infamous legacy that served as the 
catalyst for the rest of the events in 1991:
* To cash in on the masked killings, a slasher flick directed by
Rouven Blankenfeld called "Midnight Animal" was produced, loosely based 
on Jacket's murder sprees. The lead actor, Martin Brown, plays as a 
slasher villain based on Jacket known as "The Pig Butcher", who goes on 
rampages which involve killing and raping teenagers. Jacket's 
"abduction" of the girl and his assault on the police station are echoed
 within the film. In his dreams, it is revealed that Martin himself is 
in fact a deranged individual who uses his role in the film to act out 
his violent fantasies. During production of the film, Martin's role ends
 in tragedy, where he is accidentally shot to death with live rounds 
onset.
* A group of friends and former soldiers serving in the Hawaiian
conflict, collectively known as The Fans, become obsessed with Jacket's 
killings and emulate Jacket's murders by finding criminal hideouts and 
killing hoodlums for fun. They are left to improvise Jacket's killing of
 the Russians due the Russian Mafia's decrease in power and dominance 
over the criminal underworld. However, once the Russian Mafia reemerges 
as the dominant organized crime syndicate in Miami, the Fans target 
their headquarters. All of the Fans are killed during the assault, but 
the Russian Mafia is once again destroyed in the process.
* Manny Pardo,
 a corrupt Miami PD detective, grows envious of the press focusing their
 attention towards the legacy left behind by 50 Blessings and the masked
 killers. In his own twisted way, he tries to gain the same infamy 
Jacket did by massacring criminals in the name of the law (much to the 
dismay of his colleagues) and by moonlighting as a serial killer known 
as the "Miami Mutilator", where he kills people and mutilates their 
bodies post-mortem, then following his murders up by investigating his 
own crime scenes while framing other characters by planting evidence of 
his murders in their homes. Despite receiving some attention from the 
press, Pardo's own paranoia of the police catching onto his crimes 
eventually leads to his downfall.
* Evan Wright, the journalist that asked for Jacket and Beard's
photo has now become a freelance writer. He seeks to write a book about 
the "Masked Maniac" killings, becoming increasingly dedicated in his 
research to the point of his wife, Sharon, leaving him. Because of this,
 Evan struggles with whether or not to focus on his book or keep his 
family together.
* Due to Jacket single-handedly crippling the Russian Mafia's
grip on the criminal underworld, the rest of the criminal operations 
left in Miami are mostly occupied by hoodlums and petty drug dealers 
and, more significantly, the Colombians
 taking the Mafia's territory for themselves and establishing themselves
 as the top criminal empire in Miami. This leads to new boss of the 
Mafia, the Son,
 becoming viciously ambitious to bring the Russian Mafia back to its 
former glory and crush Jacket's legacy. The Son wipes out his Colombian 
rivals and brings the Russian Mafia back as the top of the criminal 
underworld, but ends up destroying it after overdosing on his own 
product and going on drug-induced rampage.
* Richard, the mysterious entity wearing the rooster mask,
returns in the sequel to visit many of the playable characters and warn 
them of their fates. On two occasions, Richard is shown to wear Jacket's
 outfit.
Jacket was seen as a hero by many citizens harboring Anti-Russian 
sentiments, and the revelation of the Russo-America Coalition being 
involved with the Russian Mafia further escalated these sentiments, 
which lead to protests and riots in 1991. Eventually, during an RAC 
conference between the American and Russian presidents on December 28 
1991, 50 Blessings launches a coup d'etat on the conference, resulting 
in the deaths of both presidents and instigating a nuclear war between 
both countries. While Jacket is alone in his cell, a nuclear bomb is 
dropped on Miami by the Soviet Union, killing the entire populace. While
 the rest of the remaining protagonists are shown being killed in the 
nuke, Jacket is the last one to be shown.
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