The Continental: From the World of John Wick is an American crime-action drama miniseries that serves as a spin-off and prequel in the John Wick franchise. It delves into the background story of Winston Scott, who started as a homeless kid and eventually became the manager of the infamous Continental hotel. The miniseries consists of three episodes. Episode 1 and 2 were recapped in the previous posts. Links to read them are given below:
Here's a recap of episode 3:
At the conclusion of episode 2, Winston tries to recruit Cheron in his team but after returning to the Continental, Cheron becomes even more devoted to Cormac as he agrees to keep his promise to bring his father back to the USA. Elsewhere, Winston and his team are almost ready with their plan to attack the Continental. The story now progresses in episode 3.
Episode 3 begins with Winston and his crew, comprising Miles, Lou, Yen, Lemmy, Jenkins, and Ronnie, preparing a plan to storm the Continental and take down Cormac once and for all. However, Winston grows frustrated with the lack of coordination within the team. He scolds the group for wanting security and reminds them the only way to emerge victorious in their fight is to risk their lives.
Winston also reveals that he has a plan to convince Maisy, Cormac's competitor, to help their efforts at the hotel. Cormac prepares to face Winston with Sharon's help, with the latter still loyal to his employer despite Winston's warning. KD continues her search for Winston, and Mayu keeps tabs on Winston and his allies, presumably under Cormac's instruction.
KD visits Winston's hotel but does not find him there. As a result, she goes to the dojo where she meets Lou. Elsewhere, Jenkins sets up his sniping spot in an old lady's house by pretending to be an exterminator. Mayu tries to warn KD as he notices her moving close to the altercation between Cormac and Winston. KD, though, continues her pursuit and won't pay attention to Mayu.
Winston persuades Maisy to assist him by sharing the heartbreaking tale of his family's financial collapse. For Maisy's plan, he purchases an abandoned bank, in exchange for which she lends him some of her guys. Winston is later found by Hansel and Grle at his hotel, where they drag him to meet Cormac.
While leaving the motel, KD comes close to catching Winston but is forced to engage several of Cormac's killers. She enters the Continental as a patron by using a coin that belonged to one of the killers. Cormac asks Winston for the coin press's location, but when the latter refuses to reveal it, his men prepare to throw Winston off the building. However, Jenkins shoots Cormac's men, creating a distraction. Cheron betrays Cormac and holds him at gunpoint but hesitates to shoot.
Cormac escapes into the hidden corridors of the hotel while Winston and Sharon are declared enemies of the High Table. Lou learns about her father's secret past from the Chinese Mafia leader, Orphan Master. As a result, she destroys her father's dojo to defeat the Orphan Master. Miles, Yen, and Ly enter the hotel and start killing Cormac's men while the red light goes off, revoking the no-killing rule of the establishment.
Eventually, Winston and Cheron make it to the armoury according to their plan and find Cormac there. However, Cormac's men hold them at gunpoint, only for the men to reveal themselves as Maisy's homeless gang. Winston forces Cormac to open the armoury, but he jams the lock and breaks the key. As a result, Winston and his allies must kill every assassin in the hotel after the bounty on their head to make it out alive.
Winston and his allies fight through the numerous assassins that attack them on Cormac's orders. On the other hand, Cormac hides in the operations room where he keeps surveillance of his enemies. Winston and Cheron search for Cormac, and the former reveals his friendship with Frankie was one of the reasons he decided to help Winston.
Cheron also deduces that Cormac must be hiding in the operations room. However, the elevator card is missing, and the operation room's floor is only known to the manager. At the same time, the adjudicator informs Cormac that he has been relieved of his duties as the manager of New York's the Continental Hotel, which enrages him.
With nothing left to lose, Cormac initiates a self-destruction sequence and escapes the hotel just as Cheron and Winston find the operations. The CCTV footage shows Cormac at the railway tracks under the hotel, and he quickly catches up with his arch-nemesis by jumping down the garbage chute at the railway track. Winston confronts Cormac, but the latter overpowers him until KD arrives and shoots Cormac.
In the episode, it is revealed that the house Frankie and Winston burned down as kids on Cormac's orders belonged to KD and her parents. However, in the final moments, KD realizes that Cormac is the reason for her family's demise and kills him. As a result, while Winston does not kill Cormac, he defeats the former crime boss who destroyed his and Frankie's lives.
Do Winston's friends die? Does Winston stop the self-destruction? While Winston deals with Cormac, his allies engage with the dangerous assassins from the hotel. Miles is nearly killed in a fight with Hansel, but Lemy's clever use of the message-delivering system in the hotel saves him. However, Hansel uses the system to send a grenade at Lemy, killing him and detonating all the explosives he was carrying.
Miles almost loses to Hansel, but Lou joins the fight just in time to save him. Yen battles Grle, and after a grueling hand-to-hand fight, emerges victorious. Despite Winston's friends surviving by holding their own against the assassins, the self-destruction sequence initiated by Cormac spells doom for all of them.
On the other hand, an evacuation vehicle arrives to take Winston to safety. However, Winston refuses to leave his friends behind to die and finds a way to stop the self-destruction sequence. He uses Cormac's severed hand to stop the hotel from imploding with mere seconds left on the clock. Ultimately, Winston saves almost all his friends from dying in the fight against Cormac. The group commemorates their victory and Lemy and Frankie's deaths by sharing a drink in the hotel's bar.
Where is the coin press? How does Winston take the Continental? In the aftermath of the Continental's brutal and violent conflict, the adjudicator visits Winston. She asks him about the coin press's location, as the device catalyses the entire conflict. However, Winston refuses to reveal its location, and flashbacks show how he found the coin press as children.
Winston and Frankie were forced to sleep in a car's trunk as they had lost their home. Winston found the coin press in the same place and used it to create the hotel's coins, leading Maisy's men to join the fight on his behalf. Winston locked the coin press in the bank he bought for Maisy.
The adjudicator informs Winston that because the hotel is under the High Table's supervision, he will not be able to keep it, forcing the High Table to acknowledge him and install him as the hotel's manager, a position he would occupy for over four decades. However, Winston instead shoots the adjudicator. As a result, Winston effectively takes over the hotel and makes it his new residence as the owner of the most influential business in New York City. He rejoices at the top of the structure. However, Winston's choice to kill the adjudicator suggests that he is not entirely aware of the powers at play, which leaves room for a second season.
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