Summary
“Night Two” has Winston assembling a team to go after Cormac and take over The Continental. Charon’s loyalty to his boss is tested while an increasingly desperate Cormac breaks the hotel’s number one rule.
“Night Two” has Winston assembling a team to go after Cormac (voiced by Mel Gibson) and take over The Continental. In Episode 2, Charon’s (Ayomide Adegun) loyalty to his boss is tested while an increasingly desperate Cormac breaks the hotel’s number one rule.
The Continental: From the World of John Wick Episode 2 Recap and Breakdown
A flashback shows why Frankie took the fall for his little brother all those years ago. Cormac instructed the boys to set fire to an apartment.
Little Winston volunteered to throw the Molotov Cocktail through the window, but unknownst to him, there were people inside the unit.
Present-day The Continental Winston is saying his final goodbyes to his brother. Miles helped him arrange Frankie’s incineration and retrieve his possessions.
Another flashback shows the first time Yen and Frankie met in Vietnam. She was a suicide bomber sent to blow up a bar full of American soldiers. The bomb didn’t go off, but she did catch Frankie’s eye.
Present-day Yen is fighting for her life inside the dojo, while Lou is (literally) fighting her creditors. who keep removing items from the property.
Meanwhile, KD is having a lover’s quarrel with her superior / affair partner, who can’t wrap his head around her insistence to investigate Frankie and the Continental Hotel. As the two are about to engage in make-up sex, KD gets a call about Frankie’s death.
Intriguingly enough, Winston seems surprised to hear that the box Cormac took off Frankie’s dead body was empty (Well, aside from the monkey figurine). He is, however, hell-bent on revenge and wants Lou and Miles’s help to not only kill Cormac but take over his entire criminal empire.
First, Winston has to deal with a very angry Yen, who is less than pleased about her husband’s fast-tracked cremation.
Also unimpressed with Frankie’s under-the-table cremation is KD, who was hoping to see the body.
At the Continental, Cormac is trying to enjoy a lavish meal, but the Adjudicator rudely interrupts him. She gives him less than 72 hours to find the coin press before the High Table strips him of his position and life.
Who is Jenkins?
Winston, Lou, and Miles are trying to assemble a team of assassins crazy enough to help them storm the Continental. Among the names listed is Jenkins, a talented sniper with a distaste for child molesters and an affinity for fine wines, and the mysterious crime lord Maisie, one of the few criminals in New York who doesn’t work for Cormac.
When Miles approaches Jenkins for help, he’s more than happy to oblige. We learn that there’s a long history between our two dojo owners and Jenkins. And it seems Miles hasn’t told Lou the whole truth about their father’s passing.
Things don’t run as smoothly when Winston approaches Maisie. She’s one of the few crime bosses in the city not under Cormac’s control and has no interest in the money Winston is offering.
Instead, she wants to get to know and understand him.
While Cormac’s men, led by the mute twins Gretel and Hansel, are ransacking Charlie’s trailer in search of the coin press, Yen is at the abandoned theatre she and Frankie once called home to mourn her husband.
What did Yen bring back from the theatre?
When Cormac’s men show up at the theatre looking for the press, Yen blows off a little steam by killing them all. She goes back to the dojo and gives Winston a map of the Continental that Frankie managed to put together before his untimely departure.
On the roof of the Continental, Charon tells one of the hotel’s musicians that he works for Cormac because the crime boss promised to help bring his father to the U.S.
Winston and Jenkin are watching the pair from the adjacent building. He then starts gathering information about Charon.
Lou, on the other hand, is dealing with a local crime boss who doesn’t like the presence of her dojo in Chinatown because of her skin color. She does get a chance to beat up every one of the men’s thugs.
The Continental: From the World of John Wick Episode 2 Ending Explained
Not one to abide by any rules, Cormac invites Charon’s musician friend in his office to congratulate him on his acceptance into a Conservatory. He then asks the young man to play his cello before bashing the unsuspecting musician’s head with a golf club.
When the Adjudicator gets word of Cormac’s killing on hotel grounds, she decides to do nothing for now.
Winston approaches Charon and tells him about his and Frankie’s long history with Cormac. He then tries to convince Charon to betray his boss.
When Charon gets back to the hotel, he sees the musician’s dead body in Cormac’s office. He’s surprised when Cormac offers to bring his father over as the Continental’s new in-house musician.
Charon tells his boss about Winston’s proposal, and Cormac is beyond pleased with the boy’s show of loyalty.
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