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but the brothers are not charged. Thereafter, the brothers experience an
epiphany, and decide that God wants them to eradicate evil. “Destroy all that
which is evil, so that which is good may flourish,” proclaim Connor and
Murphy. They set out to do so, with the aid of their friend, David “The
Funnyman” Della Rocco, a minor cog in the local mob machinery. The trail of
dead that the MacManus brothers leave behind them is investigated by FBI
Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe). Smecker arrives at the crime
scenes and uses the evidence to piece the events together, which the audience
experiences as a flashback. When he finally deduces ] HXX