In Part Five, well, all the shit comes down. Turns out raki isn't the perfect lubricant for a revolutionary plan. And a quaint Hatchet Man episode — one character sings to pigeons, another drills holes in sick heads — leads to utter disorientation when our dark hero follows his typical slaughter with a shocking act. The rest, alas, is history.

The podcast series HATCHET MAN tells the tale of a little-known but extraordinary Albanian television series that aired in 1996 and ushered in social chaos and civil war.