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Pilot: Season 1 Episode 1
1 of 26WARNING: If you don't want to know what happened in this episode, don't read this photo recap!
San Francisco, 1987. We're at the Kings Dominion prep school, and Master Lin is giving a lecture about how World War I was started by a teenage assassin. When some students start passing notes, he slams his cane onto desk of Marcus Lopez Arguello …
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4 of 26We flash back to "Yesterday," as we see Marcus stare at the rubble of what once was the Sunset boys home, his former digs. From the sound of it, Marcus burned the home to the ground, and now he's wanted by the cops for "more than a dozen murders." So he's living on the streets and eating out of trashcans.
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Pilot: Season 1 Episode 1
12 of 26Master Lin explains the roots of Kings Dominion to Marcus: "In service to the greater good, there can be nobility in killing." Lin's great-grandfather came to America looking for the American dream, only to find indentured servitude and abuse. So he taught himself to kill and founded Kings Dominion and dedicated it to "the self-liberation of oppressed people."
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13 of 26When story-time is over, Marcus decides to join the school, trading his street clothes for a starched school uniform. While cruises the halls of Kings Dominion for the first time, he's greeted by unfriendly familiar faces. They've even pinned this on his locker as a welcome sign. Oh, high school.
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Pilot: Season 1 Episode 1
18 of 26At lunch/ a hang out on The Roof, Billy explains that one's social standing at Kings Dominion is determined largely by who your parents are. The legacy kids are the sons and daughters of organized crime (cartels, the mafia, yakuza) government types. Brandy the racist blonde is teamed up with the white-nationalist Dixie Mafia, while Willie is the head of the Final World Order. Billy's dad is a mere wife-and-child-beating cop, while Marcus is an orphan, so they're at the bottom of the food chain, The Rats.
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Pilot: Season 1 Episode 1
22 of 26While trying to figure out what to do next, Marcus is approached by Willie who suggests - with a gun - that they partner up on the Dark Arts assignment. Marcus agrees and they head to the homeless camp to find and kill Rory but first, Willie has a confession of his own...
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24 of 26Back at Kings Dominion, Marcus tells Willie to go ahead inside while he smokes, but when Willie does, Marcus looks down at his hands, and they're shaking. Maria shows up without her black eye. Hey, wait a minute... And warns Marcus that Chico and the Cartel are coming for him.