Editing Joey Hunt (section)

==== The hunt on the Sánchez Cartel ====
That stability shattered when MJ—his closest friend and brother in all but blood—was murdered in a back alley in Leonida. The killing was carried out by members of the [[Sánchez Cartel]], the most powerful Mexican drug cartel operating in the region. Despite the brutality and clear indicators of cartel involvement, the investigation was rushed and quietly buried. The police dismissed it as an unfortunate but ordinary gang-related murder—one they showed no real interest in solving. It was clear to Patrick that money had changed hands.

Patrick questioned everything: the timelines, the missing evidence, the indifference. Unsatisfied with the official conclusions, he began investigating on his own. What started as a search for truth quickly became something darker. Grief hardened into obsession, and obsession into a need for revenge. He followed financial trails, street rumors, and old contacts, slowly uncovering how deeply the cartel’s influence ran. As the reality set in, Patrick changed. He grew colder, quieter, consumed by purpose.

His wife noticed immediately. The late nights, the distance, the silence at home. Eleanor pleaded with him to stop—to let the past go and focus on their family, especially their young daughter, Jane, who was only three years old at the time. But Patrick couldn’t let go. Arguments became frequent, trust eroded, and the man she married seemed to disappear piece by piece. Eventually, the marriage collapsed. Eleanor filed for divorce and took Jane with her to San Fierro, leaving Patrick alone with his fixation.

With nothing anchoring him, Patrick relocated to Vice City—not to disappear, but to get closer to the source and deal with the situation directly.

Using old SEAL contacts and carefully leveraged ties within the financial world, Patrick began mapping the Sanchez Cartel’s presence across Vice City. Shell companies, money mules, laundering fronts, logistics hubs—he identified them patiently and dismantled them surgically. Individuals vanished without noise. Assets collapsed overnight. The pattern was obvious to those who knew how to look, but the man behind it was impossible to trace.

Around this time, Patrick shaved his head completely, adopting the stark, functional look that would later become synonymous with him. As the pressure mounted, he extended his campaign beyond Vice City. He traveled to Mexico, deep into cartel territory, where he targeted infrastructure and senior figures directly. One of the most notorious strikes came when Patrick eliminated the entire family of a high-ranking cartel member, Hector Sanchez, using a car bomb. The blast left little forensic evidence. Even the cartel struggled to piece together how it had been done—only that it had been done by the same unseen hand.

Within cartel circles, whispers spread. They didn’t know his name, his face, or where he came from. They only knew one detail. They called him “El Calvo", The Bald Guy. Eventually, the cartel struck back. One night, after Patrick returned home in Vice City, fourteen armed cartel members ambushed his house. Armed with AK-pattern rifles and sent to make an example of him, they believed they had finally cornered their target. Patrick was surprised—but ready. The fight was fast, controlled, and merciless. He surgically exterminated all fourteen men.

Knowing the cartel would never stop hunting him, Patrick set his house ablaze, erased what little evidence remained, and vanished. Patrick Jones was declared dead by the cartel and the instances. But there was one person within the cartel that always had his doubts, which was [[Hector Sánchez]], who would continue to be the only one believing "El Calvo" was still alive.