Appearing in "Mr. M: 1 of 6"
Featured Characters:
- Officer Izzy Ortega (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- New York City Police Department (Main story and flashback)
- Gus Kucharsky (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Chief Randolph Esposito (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- FBI
Antagonists:
- Jake Costanza (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Mrs. Costanza (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Norma Kucharsky (Mentioned)
- Several unnamed District X residents (Only in flashback)
- Smerdyakov Family
- Mikey Smerdyakov (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Gregor Smerdyakov (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Mitya Smerdyakov (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Kaufman Enterprises' Wildkat Klub (Only in flashback)
- Lorelei Travis (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Patch (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Café Des Artistes staff (Only in flashback)
- Sylvette Lauziere (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Jean-Claude Lauziere (Behind the scenes) (Only in flashback)
- "Juicers" (Teenagers addicted to Toad Juice) (Only in flashback)
- Bethany Danzinger (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Patricia Hamilton (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Internal Affairs (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Kips Bay
- First Avenue
- Bellevue Hospital
- Trauma Unit Recovery Room
- Bellevue Hospital
- First Avenue
- Lower East Side
- East Village
- Alphabet City
- 11th Precinct / Mutant Town / District X (Only in flashback)
- Café Des Artistes (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Wildkat Klub (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- McCarthy Avenue (Only in flashback)
- Patricia Hamilton's flat (Only in flashback)
- Jake Costanza's flat (Only in flashback)
- 11th Precinct Station House (First appearance)
- 11th Precinct / Mutant Town / District X (Only in flashback)
- Alphabet City
- East Village
- Kips Bay
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Georgia (Mentioned)
- Los Angeles (Mentioned)
- Las Vegas (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- North America
Items:
- Toad Juice (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Mr. M: 1 of 6"
District X, also known as Mutant Town, is a section of New York where mutants seem to flock. It has a higher than average number of them and, as a result, the police there are fighting a losing battle and are in need of help. Officer’s Ismael ‘Izzy’ Ortega and Gus Kucharsky are two such officers, experienced but miles apart in terms of outlook. Gus is in a hospital ward, recovering from a gunshot wound with only a vague recollection of events leading to his hospitalization. His friend, Izzy, explains how he came to be in this condition. They were out on patrol one day, dealing with the strange things that happen all the time in District X. They met a few characters who inhabit the area before being called to McCarthy Avenue, where a woman was reportedly being held against her will.
Upon arriving at the scene, the hostage’s sister explained that her sister’s husband was keeping her chained up and wouldn’t let her out. Her sister had a history of people fighting over her and one boy called her a siren. The officers visited her sister’s apartment and forced their way in before her husband, Jake, could open the door. They found his wife bound and gagged. Izzy cuffed Jake, while Gus freed his wife. As soon as she opened her mouth to thank him, he was under her mental thrall and she commanded him to kill Jake. To Izzy’s horror, he did just that, before turning to Jake’s wife and killing her too. When he tried taking his own life, Izzy just managed to misdirect the bullet and he ‘merely’ suffered a head wound. In the hospital ward, Izzy provides Gus with an alternate series of events, whereby Internal Affairs will be led to believe that Jake killed his own wife and then tried to kill Gus. With Gus in hospital, Izzy is given a new assignment by his boss. He has a new partner to babysit, and his name is Bishop.