""Trailblazer" wastes no time revealing how Junior and Babbitt killed Anna Dixon in her bathroom. The pair fumble over each other trying to bust her bathroom door open to question her, knocking her over in the process and inadvertently breaking her skull against the lip of the tub. It's a senseless act of violence that takes the most blameless life of anyone who has ever earned a dime off the Black Rabbit."
"Vince is already setting up the next $100,000 scam at their mom's house when Jake finds his apartment in shambles. The elder Friedken brother has an in with Jeffy, the South Brooklyn fire marshal, who's happy to clear the paperwork on the insurance claim once they burn the place down. It's an airtight plan, and the payout will be sufficient to repay the Mancusos."
"They find the only thing they're going to take with them: a box of cassette tapes, including an old Black Rabbits demo and a joint from 25 years ago. Vince lights it and makes Jake share a couple tokes and starts mourning the combined losses of a lifetime run of bad luck. "Everything was in front of us," Vince concludes. "Turned out it was just an ending.""
Anna Dixon is killed accidentally when Junior and Babbitt force her bathroom door, knocking her and breaking her skull against the tub. Vince organizes a $100,000 insurance arson at their mother’s house with help from a corrupt South Brooklyn fire marshal to cover debts to the Mancusos. Before burning the house, Vince and Jake salvage a box of cassette tapes and a 25-year-old joint, smoke, and mourn a lifetime of lost opportunities. Jake confesses an affair, and Vince mock-ritually absolves him. The house is burned, symbolically reforging a fraternal bond while deepening criminal entanglement.
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