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CHARACTERS |
JAKE
VIRTUE
MELISSA LEE
MARY LEE
STEVE CAAN
EDDIE LEE
MICHAEL LEE
RAFI NAVON
DAMON MALDONADO
SERGEI KAZAKOV
VLADIMIR BYKOV
YURI PEDROSSOV
VERONICA GUERRERO
MICHELLE LEE
MATTHEW LEE
JULIE LEE
LINDSAY CHEUNG
LESLIE CHEUNG
HENRY LEE
SEMION WEITZ
DEREK SIMPSON
PAVEL POPOV
ETON SINGER
KEVIN HONG
SHAGEN
ANZOR KASHIN
BORIS VOLKOV
DIMITRI VOLKOV
HARRY WONG
NICKY TAN
FRANKIE THE FENCE
JERRY CILETTI
SUZIE KIM
CARLOS CORDON
PACO CORDOVA
JOKER
DANNY WU
WANG JAK MAN
MR. CHOW
RAFIK PARSSEGHIAN
JOEY D.
WINSTON JONES
JASON FLYMMING
TAKESHI TANAKA
ANGIE GAROLO
TITO CORDOVA
VIJAY KHAN
MARCEL YAO
PHIL SMITH
CHARLIE TANG
ERIC CLAYTON
JUNIOR SOTELO
JACK CHURCH
FELIX HINOJOSA
IRINIA PEDROSSOV
WU PENG
JENNIFER CHEN
WILLIAM LO
JESSICA (RAVEN) MEIER
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| Character
Name: JAKE VIRTUE |
| Aliases:
None |
| Age:
39 |
| Ethnicity:
Caucasian/Hispanic ethnic chameleon. Everyone asks if he's Israeli, Italian,
Persian, Armenian, but almost never Latino. |
| Sex:
Male |
| Health
Condition: Healthy, slender build. |
| Sexual
Orientation? Heterosexual. |
| Does
he have a lot of friends? He knows a lot of people, but very few
of them he would consider a friend. |
| Married?
Single? Exes? Unmarried, living with Melissa Lee, a single mother
over ten years older than him who has three kids from two failed marriages.
He's beyond smitten with her and would do absolutely anything for her, including
breaking every law in the book. |
| What
he does and why? Jake started selling marijuana in college and
was making so much money off UCLA and USC students that school went from
full-time, to part-time, to sometimes, to no time. This was long before
the medical marijuana green rush completely eviscerated his business. After
dropping out of UCLA, Jake wasted the bulk of his twenties chasing easy
commitment-free sex with 40-year-old women. It was all fun and games until
he fell in love with Melissa Lee, a broke washed out has-been model and
fashion entrepreneur with three kids from two failed marriages. Against
the advice of everyone he knows and all his own instincts he moved in together
with Melissa and her three children in a large apartment, right across the
street from Melissa's mother, Mary, who lives with Melissa's sister Julie,
and the rest of her bizarre extended family, who generally look at Jake
with nothing but suspicion and distrust. After the medical marijuana "green
rush" completely eliminated Jake's business, Jake started peddling
just about anything and everything, from ecstasy to pharmaceutical favorites
such as Percocet, Oxycontin, and Diazapam. Professional quality bootleg
DVDs and counterfeit fashion goods ranging in anything from fake Louis Vuitton
bags and Prada bags, to knockoff official sportswear. Sometimes Jake would
even land a case of pirated software in the boxes with certificates. He's
able to dabble in all these things because his partner, Steve Caan, is always
coming up with ideas for the two of them to make money on together. Jake
does all of this because there is nothing in the world that he wouldn't
do for Melissa Lee, including breaking every law that has ever been written.
He always daydreams about doing something better though. |
| What
are his goals? As Jake gets closer to turning 40, the one thought
that goes through his head again and again is that he should have finished
school. He was having so much fun going out to upscale nightclubs, restaurants,
and hotels, five nights a week, and bedding a different gorgeous "cougar"
almost just as often that he forgot that he wasn't getting any younger.
After his once semi-successful pot business went from a more than $2,000
a week business to a less $2,000 a month business, Jake found himself getting
sucked deeper into a criminal world that he never wanted to become mixed
up in. His personal pipe-dream escape plan is to open his very own coin
laundry that could be his ticket to total freedom from the underground economy
once and for all. He always talks about that, and about buying an apartment
building, bringing him passive income for the rest of his days. He’s
been daydreaming about it for years… but necessity always seems to
be getting in the way of having enough money to piece anything together.
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