Plainview Noir

***PLAINVIEW NOIR*** is a duology composed of ***This Greg For Hire*** and ***Farewell, My Bubby***.

## Plot

### This Greg For Hire

Private eye Greg Heffley is visited by a woman who says that police chief Frank Everett Hills killed her best friend Angie, claiming that he used his signature .22 to shoot her in the head. At a cityside gym locker, he is visited by Roland "Rowley" Jefferson, who says that Frank knows about the woman. Greg recounts the story of how Frank rose in power, using his police connections to tie in with his connections to the Hill Syndicate. Greg goes to Chirag's bar to meet the woman, Holly, but discovers the place trashed before he is knocked out by Rowley.

Greg is tortured by the mad doctor, Fregley Fischer, but manages to escape into the sewers. Hearing cop sirens and realizing Fregley followed him, Greg hits him in the face with a brick. Greg is then arrested for his murder which he did not commit by the cops and at the cell, Frank talks to him about how Greg used to be in the force but was kicked out. Greg is locked in a cell with Holly, revealed to be Frank's daughter. They escape with the help of Susan, Holly's mother and Frank's wife, and make their way back to Chirag where Holly says they need to go back for Susan.

Chirag says that Frank has begun smuggling boxes of strange dolls and Greg and Holly make their way to the sewers where a captive Susan reveals that the dolls are filled with poison gas by Frank and Fregley, who intend to release them around the city. Greg shoots and kills Fregley but is held at gunpoint by Frank, who then has his head smashed by Susan using the head of a doll, causing the released poison gas to kill him.

Frank's death makes the newspapers but nobody ever finds out his true nature, although Greg, Holly and Susan are indifferent to it.

### Farewell, My Bubby

Greg is called to a brutal murder scene by police chief Robert Jefferson, in which a woman was disemboweled and killed by multiple stab wounds, with the message I'M COMING SUE written on the wall. Greg and Robert speculate that it refers to Susan Hills, and Greg supposes that is was a crime of sexism. Rowley, Robert's reformed son, is brought to the station by Greg and later Greg goes home and finds Susan there, who tells him that she is worried about the killer. Greg goes to Chirag's but discovers him dead, also killed by repeated stab wounds and slices across the face. Greg is attacked by the killer and fights him, but the killer manages to impale Greg with a knife.

Greg awakens healed back to health by Holly Hills, and speculates the involvement of Don Alex Aruda, head of the South Plainview Mafia. They talk to Don Alex, who tells them that Robert intends to pin the murders on Greg. Alex shows them the body of Big Al Sandy, who was killed along with a prostitute a couple days ago, with Greg noticing a banner in the body's hand advertising the election of Frank Heffley for chief of police years ago.

Greg and Holly go to a fundraiser with Robert while Officer Manuel guards Susan, but the killer kills a person at the gala. They race home where they discover Manuel, the killer, as he impales Susan and escapes. Susan tells Greg and Holly to go to her and Frank's old house before she dies of the stab wounds.

## Parents Guide

### Non-Spoiler

#### Violence - Moderate

* Slowly becomes more intense as the duology goes on.
* Character is hit in the head with a brick, knocking them out.
* Deaths by stabbing are frequent in the second part.
* Four people in the second part are found stabbed to death. The crime scenes are gory but the deaths are never shown.

### Spoilers

#### Violence

* A minor antagonist is shot in the chest and face. Not bloody at all.
* A doll with its head filled with poison gas is used to hit a character in the head. The character collapses and then has their face melted by the escaping gas. Most violent scene in the first part.
* A character's head is bashed inwards with the head of a doll.
* Greg finds Chirag dying of multiple stab and slice wounds across the face. He then fight with the killer and is stabbed.
* Greg is stabbed through the chest by the killer with a kitchen knife, although the survives this.
* A major character is impaled through the stomach by a large blade and dies of their injuries.