

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, alarms break the quiet and calm of the Virtua City air. The missing funds amounted to more than the GNP of most small countries. And the swollen accounts of the now-defunct E.V.I.L Syndicate, which he had been suspected of laundering, were emptied overnight. The vice-president of the Virtua City Bank was killed in shady circumstances that were only officially termed «accidental». Then trouble started brewing in unlikely places. And the Virtua City Police Special Investigations Unit got a new member in the shape of Janet Marshall, an expert in criminal psychology profiling. The gangleaders were all either behind bars, in intensive care, or under 6 feet of dirt. Last year it looked as though the Virtua Squad had finally put an end to the E.V.I.L Syndicate’s reign of crime over Virtua City. After the downfall of E.V.I.L Inc., a comprehensive investigation of their black market and gun-running activities was launched in the Virtua City bank. gang, international terrorist Joe Fang is believed to have been killed in a helicopter crash, though his body was never found. And the final, fourth member of the E.V.I.L Inc.

Three of its leaders, King, Boss, and Kong are all in the maximum security federal pen. During the events of the first, the original Virtua Cops, Michael «Rage» Hardy and James «Smarty» Cools shut down the E.V.I.L Inc.
