The Heat (episode)

**"The Heat"** is the fifth episode of the first season of *Supercrooks* and the fifth episode of the show overall.

## Synopsis

*In Chicago, Carmine introduces Johnny and Casey to the other supervillains. They've all been chosen for their specific powers and their nameless status.*

## Plot

A woman relaxes at a beach when TK McCabe brings her a drink she ordered. She asks him what he would be doing later as he steals one of her keys. He thanks her for the offer, but leaves with the key. Another man sees him using the keys to steal cars and tells his partner. As the man reaches the woman's sports car, he is called by Carmine and approached by The Gladiator, who wants to stop him.

The Diesel Brothers get angry while betting, and both of them start fighting, shocking everyone in the place. However, after a bit of rough fighting, they laugh and remember that Carmine had told them to not fight unless they made money from it. They get a call from him and mention it was bad timing.

Carmine tells Kasey that he is glad she could make it. He is happy to see her again, but does not want to visit her in San Francisco. Johnny introduces himself as well as Carmine explains how he hides in plain sight. When Johnny wanted to touch a laundry machine, Carmine tells him he does not want him to damage it, which Johnny does not like. He asks Kasey why she had told Carmine about his power, but she tells him that she had not even mentioned Johnny to Carmine, which is what made him The Heat.

Carmine tells Johnny about his past, and how Chicago is the birthplace of supervillains. Kasey says that Chicago's first supervillain was The Heat, but he had cut ties with the mafia and gathered villains who were in similar circumstances together. Johnny finds Carmine's blasters, which were very powerful and is shocked to find out that Carmine did not have any superpowers, which he mentions were not needed back in his day. Carmine mentions that it is not even necessary for the legend of The Heat to be true because The Heat is a kind of ideal that other villains have constructed. Johnny cannot believe that that was his job, since he was only lying about his career; he in turn, says that he is a supervillain because he wants to be able to live his own life freely, but Carmine simply says that he would have a hard time making money with his ego.

In his office, Carmine welcomes Kasey and Johnny to the underworld of Chicago. Carmine introduces them and tells them all that people with superpowers were popping up all over the place and thanks to groups like The Union of Justice, business had been terrible for them, which was the cause for The Network's creation, but villains who wanted to avoid joining them had a harder time as well. The Diesel Brothers get offended when The Ghost tells them that they are unknown enough for the job, which The Network was avoiding. Johnny gets angry at The Ghost when he calls him "sport" condescendingly and wants to punch him, but manages to restrain himself.

Kasey asks Carmine to keep telling them about the job. Carmine says that the first requirement is to not be mixed up with The Network, but each and every single person in the room had a unique power, which fit into a unique role for the job. The Ghost makes fun of Johnny and says that everyone had a specific job except for him, which makes him very angry. As he shows his power off, the lights across Chicago start turning off. He asks the man what his power was, which he demonstrates as he walks through him.

The Ghost explains that it did not matter where he was, he was always being used, due to his power being so great until he tried to play both sides with some bad people until Carmine saved him and let him join his gang. Johnny calms down and Carmine thanks him for his demonstration of power, but he says that he bets it could do a whole lot more than just turn lights off, which is exactly what they needed.

Carmine tells them that the mission was made out of two parts. He says that the first part would be rescuing someone else they would need for the job. He had been caught while on vacation in Florida and his name was TK McCabe, who Johnny knows. Carmine explains that TK had been caught and defeated by The Gladiator, so he is now being transported in a plane and insists that TK was very important, so they all prepare to go to Florida. In order to get the mission running, they have a supplier from Romania, who had already given them money to go.

Carmine tells them about his visit to Romania and his partner, who did not hesitate to join the mission, which meant they were funded. All the villains are happy to start and Carmine adds that the timing could not be better because The Bastard had all his reputable villains occuppied. Johnny is happy that they were out-maneuvering The Network, and Carmine tells them to go to Florida; when they got back, he would fill them in on the rest of the plan. He adds that it could be the biggest plan he's ever done in 75 years and would be great for their legacy. Johnny asks what he means by that since all the newspapers he had around were about him being caught, which he did not want. Carmine gets angry and starts yelling, but a train interrupts him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Johnny Bolt (anime) - Jonah Scott
* Kasey - Abby Trott
* Carmine (The Heat) - Doug Stone
* Josh (The Ghost) - Bill Butts
* Roddy Diesel - Bruno Oliver
* Sammy Diesel - Ben Pronsky
* TK McCabe - Bill Rogers
* Forecast - Zeno Robinson
* The Gladiator - Cam Clarke
* Gladiator's Partner - David Cooley

### Additional Cast

* Katie Leigh
* Vicky Syal