She feels guilty-so much so that she tries to turn herself in. Erica is thus portrayed as someone caught in the grip of something she can’t escape. After the subway shootings, she comments that she could have shown her attackers her gun and they would have let her go. Instead, she describes her desire for revenge as a “stranger” inside her she doesn’t recognize. “I follow the law,” he says, “No matter how bad I feel about it.”Įrica isn’t depicted as a victim who’s simply infatuated with bloodlust. On the other is Sean, a cop who’s made a career out of letting the legal system administer justice even when he knows it means some criminals will get off. On one side is Erica, a woman who’s increasingly willing to deliver vigilante punishment. The Brave One is a story about right and wrong. A final test for both awaits when Erica learns the identity of the men who stole her dog, her husband-to-be and her happiness-and loads her gun. And as she goes looking for trouble, Mercer closes in on the truth. Along the way, his path intersects hers, and the loners become fast friends.īut Erica hides her terrible secret: Vengeance has become the only thing she lives for. And a detective named Sean Mercer tries to piece together what’s happening. The press, of course, goes bonkers covering this vigilante story. Soon, a similar scenario on the subway concludes when three threatening thugs are mortally surprised to find that Erica is packing heat. And when the killer comes after her, he’s the one who ends up dead. No sooner has Erica (illegally) purchased a gun to allay her fears than she witnesses a fatal shooting in a convenience store.
She awakens three weeks later to find everything she’d ever loved gone. Robbery escalates into a savage beating that leaves David dead and Erica broken. Erica Bain has it all: a popular one-woman radio show about life on the streets of New York City, a devoted fiancé named David and a loyal German shepherd named Curtis.īut tragedy shatters that life the night Erica, David and Curtis run into three muggers in a Central Park tunnel.
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