The Son |HLM2

He wears a white suit, a light blue shirt, and red fingerless gloves. He is a muscular man of about thirty-five, with long black hair tied back in a ponytail, green eyes, and an earring with the hammer and sickle. His most distinctive feature is a large scar that runs across his face from his left eye to the corner of his mouth, causing partial paralysis of his left eyelid. He is somewhat tall and rugged. Personality: The Son is ambitious and multifaceted, restoring much of the Russian mafia's influence in Miami in just one month. However, he worries that his lavish lifestyle and immense notoriety will lead him to suffer the same fate as his family in the original game. He is also disturbed by how easily his men are killed; the corpse of one of them, surrounded by money in the Blood Money vault, triggers a vision of his deceased family. He maintains a friendship with The Henchman, which he attempts to rekindle once things calm down on December 20. He detests monotony and, after failing to contact The Henchman, consumes an unprecedented amount of the new product. The events of Take Over strongly suggest that he has a death wish, as the plan involves him fighting 80 armed gangsters single-handedly before walking unarmed into a firing squad at the main office, and he openly states that he is not afraid of death in The Table Sequence.

The Son is first seen in the introduction to the Act 2 level No Mercy (November 21st), where he's shown to have a fondness to the Henchman, if not a full on friendship. He seems prepared to grant favors but when the Henchman expresses desires to quit, the Son has him clear out the newly Colombian-affiliated chop shop. The Son reminds the Henchman that he's free to come back any time and to try the "new product" of purple and green pills.

The Son re-appears in the outro to Death Wish (December 20th), where he kills Alex and Ash with a magnum, seemingly laughing. He then walks toward the side of the building the Fans had planned to jump from.

His third appearance is in the intro to Seizure (November 18th) in the Catastrophe act, where he tells the Henchman he's planning to attack a Colombian gang meeting he's been invited to in an effort to reclaim lost territory. Henchman expresses reservations, but backs off. The dialogue strangely implies that the Henchman goes with the Son to Seizure (Henchman "I'll do whatever you tell me too." Son: "Alright then. Let's go."), though he doesn't seem to.

In the Seizure outro, the Son is surrounded by strippers doing cocaine. He further implies that they did Seizure together ("We sure did a number on those guys, huh?"). He tells the Henchman that Mary is too good for him and that "The minute you get attached to anyone, you know you're fucked." However he says it's none of his business and gives Henchman some money to get Mary something nice.

During a bank robbery on December 7th he is confronted by apparitions of the characters from the first game's Showdown level, who ask him why he's here. He tells them that he wants to make them proud, but the apparition of the Father tells him "You're just like me, you won't get it until it's too late."

The next appearance is on December 14th, when Manny Pardo attempts to visit the Son,

perhaps implying a partnership (possibly explaining Pardo's Colombian massacre at the docks four days prior and his knowledge of Petrov's whereabouts) and/or a desire of Pardo's to kill the Son to become famous. Regardless of his reasons, he's denied and the Son continues to the Colombian gang headquarters, wiping the majority of them out personally and letting his subordinates kill the Colombian gang leader and his guards.

After failing to make contact with Henchman and unwittingly giving his address to the Fans, he takes a large amount of the green-and-purple pills and goes into a mania-induced rampage, killing an unknown number of his own men. As the high continues, he comes across the semi-realistic animal versions of the Fans, first fighting Mark, Corey, Tony and finally Alex and Ash. In between the fights he sees warped images of jungle flora overtaking the building, wild animals having killed and feasted on his remaining men that were killed by the fans and not him, and a surreal rendition of the "Blood Money" toast, the vodka shots replaced with shotgun pellets. After killing all except Tony, he walks off the edge of the building's roof on what appears to him to be a rainbow bridge to Valhalla, while in reality he falls to his death. Death: After the scene Death Wish, his body can be seen on the ground of the building, covered with a white sheet in a pool of blood.