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"On the bleak shore now lies th' abandon'd king, A headless carcass, and a nameless thing."
[Iacet ingēns lītore truncus, āvulsumque umerīs caput et sine nōmine corpus.]
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book II, line 558. [He, whom monarchs like domestic slaves obey'd.]

The Police [Outlandos d'Amour] — Roxanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_3Z_w52XI

"It is a stern business killing of a King! But if you once go to war with him, it lies there; this and all else lies there. 
Once at war, you have made wager of battle with him: it is he to die, or else you."
Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, Lecture VI. The Hero as King, May 22, 1840.

V filled police assignations in a shared erotic link daily riding sexual foursome on Barry Lewis, Nadia Petrova, & Juan Mendez. 
In Yorinobu's bed, Abernathy replaced Evelyn (aka Saburo). Both send to rescue V who twice shoots her kidnapper Takemura.  

"On that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the slave trade... it infinitely exceeds, in every instance of barbarity."
John Wesley, Journal, February 12, 1792 [V saw Evelyn sell Judy Alvarez. Soulkiller used on Saburo's carcass did fry her brain.]

Jackie Welles died, kidnapper & torturer of children. Saburo's engram figures an old joytoy following Takemura his slave-trader.

"Hence also the flatterer is held in honor by tyrants, persons approaching in obsequious fashion, which is the work of flattery. 
On this account tyranny is friendly to the base, for a delight in being flattered, and none would do this who had free thoughts: 
And the base are useful for their bad purposes, in vile things: 'nail knocks out nail, [is driven out by nail]' as the proverb has it."
Aristotle, Politics, Book V, Chapter 11, 1314a5.