Nearby to Virginia Hills and set in year 2006 set in dilapidated town of Virginia City, the story opens with a female journalist reporting on the convict James Earl Cash, a criminal on death row who has supposedly been executed by lethal injection. Cash is awoken to the voice of a person coming from an earpiece, revealing that Cash was only knocked. Cash puts on the earpiece and the person, who refers to himself as "the Boss", promises Cash his freedom before the night is over, but only if Cash follows the Boss's instructions. Released in a dingy neighbourhood, Cash is directed to slaughter his way through the streets, populated by a gang calling themselves "The Masks" while the Boss, watching through security cameras scattered throughout the city, repeatedly mentions the need to please th