Vince crouched low in a darkened alley way on the docks. The small lamp posts that dotted the long board walk directly in front of him were crusted with salt and did little to illuminate the area only casting small areas of light directly below them.

He shifted his position uneasily. He had been on numerous stakeouts before and after donning the Cape and could normally stay focused for hours. His mind kept drifting away to his family. The image of his wife once again in his arms filled his senses, he could smell her hair, feel her breath on his cheek, hear her heart beating as he held her close not wanting to ever let her go again.

A voice over the comm. broke Vince out of his reverie. "This is going to work out and they're going to be fine."

Vince took a deep, calming breath attempting once more to focus at the task at hand. Things were going to go as plan if he didn't stay focused. "Are you sure this is going to work?"

"Yes, it's going to work." Orwell said reassuringly. "I left enough bread crumbs anybody could follow them. I let word leak out to Scales that Devino said he had gotten rid of The Cape and now had his eyes set on the docks while letting word reaching Devino that Scales had heard about him and wanted to talk."

The sound of approaching footsteps, cut the conversation short. "You see, Louie. You helped make this happen." The older man smiled as he clamped a hand on Louie's shoulder. Then turning away from Louie and facing the water. "You helped the family get a piece of the big time. So, what do you have to say for yourself."

A muffled noise behind Devino caught his attention as he turned around. "Louie?"

"Louie?" Devino immediately grabbed the gun out from his back as he spun in a circle, not seeing his associate who had been standing beside him only a moment before. "Louie!"

"Make a single sound and your dead." The cape whispered in the slightly pudgy's man's ear. "Do you hear me?" He pulled the cape tighter over the man's mouth as he felt him nod ever so slightly. "Good. Because if you don't, then I might just let you go and what is about to happen to your boss will happen to you too."

Devino whipped his head around, his grip on his gun tightened. He had heard all the stories about the mysterious Cape figure, but chalked most of them up to people overactive imagination. That was no way that someone was vanish into a cloud of smoke, or take down ten men single handedly. It just wasn't possible. Standing alone on the dock, shifting his eyes in every direction, straining to see through the blackness of the night, he wasn't so sure.

"Louie" Devino hissed again. A noise behind made him spin quickly around to find himself facing Scales flanked on each side by henchman. "He's here." Devino said in a near crazed tone.

"Who's here?" Scales asked looking more than a bit annoyed.

"The Cape." Devino said. "He's here."

Scales crossed his arms across his chest, "Oh, really. He's here right now."

"Yes," Devino nodded. "My guy was here one moment and then he just disappeared."

Scales expression didn't change. "I thought you had gotten rid of that vermin. That's what I heard. That you had some how miraculously rid the city of the Cape and now wanted a bigger piece of the pie. My piece."

What little color was left in Devino's face began to drain out as he listened. "What? What are you talking about?"

"Oh, I know you have bricks for brain, but don't play dumb with me." Scales spat at him. "One thing that really irritates me is for people to lie to me. You thought you could get this story out about you taking down the Cape and then use it to take the docks from me. The docks aren't for the taking. Take care of him boys."

A small, muffled noise emanated from the shadows of the dock, as Louie watched the scene unfold. "I just saved your live. Leave Palm City and never come back again, and we will be fine. If you ever set foot in this town again, I will be sure that you will get the same welcome that your boss just got. Are we clear?"

Vince felt the man nod slightly underneath his grip. Vince released his grip.

Louie turned around to face the masked vigilante, but found himself alone.