With Tommy in Atlanta dealing dope and Sincere slowly getting out of the business and on to a new, more spiritual path, Knowledge sends Shameek (played by rapper Method Man) to Omaha to retaliate against Rico, which he does handily. Back in Jamaica, the news comes in that Lennox was behind the hit on Sosa, and Sosa's crew - led by Chiquita, a dancehall queen cum assassin mobilizes to avenge their leader's death. They travel to New York and ambush Lennox at home. In the gun battle that ensues, Lennox manages to kill all of Sosa's men, but Chiquita surprises him by jumping him from behind and slitting his throat from ear to ear. Here is where we see most clearly how Williams maps a hierarchy of badness onto regionalized and nationalized modalities of blackness. At one end of the spectrum is Omaha-based Rico, who is portrayed as 'soft', on the one hand because of his 'country' hairdo and style of dress, and on the other because he rats out the big-city boys who are dipping into his business. Within the context of urban America, Tommy is the one who inspires fear, but he seems anxious in the Long Island home of 'the original don dada' Lennox, and awkwardly out of place on the streets of Kingston. But in the end, the baddest of them all is a Jamaican woman who kills Lennox not with the impersonal technology of guns, but by getting close enough to slit his throat. Unfortunately, space limitations make it difficult to fully explore the gender implications of this move, and how they articulate with broader gender dynamics within Jamaica (but see Barnes, 1997; Cooper, 1993; Ford-Smith, 1997; Thomas, 2004; Ulysse, 1999 for more extensive treatments). Suffice it to say here that while Chiquita may have been the fiercest killer, her ferocity does not signify that she is the 'top don'. Rather, the power she wields in this instance is symbolic of more general ideologies about violence and retribution in Jamaica. As represented in Hype Williams' film, then, Jamaican blackness is the most powerfully violent, rich, and unpredictable of the three