Cannibals

The Captain wants his cronies to infiltrate The First Church. Its membership is a laundry list of Gotham's rich and wicked... the Cap' thinks they can use its connections to compile a Night Shift hit list.

Unfortunately, it's not like they just let anybody walk in and join the inner circle. You need a sponsor before you can join the First Church. Fortunately, the Cap' happens to know a couple of crooked cops who fit the bill: Cain & Abel.

Those aren't their real names, of course. People just call them that because the big, dumb one is always beatin' on the smaller, smarter one. (You can stat 'em any way you like.) They'll meet the PCs a few blocks from the church bright and early on Saturday morning, take them to mass, and introduce them to the priest.

(You should treat this as a social mook battle where the PCs are trying to ingratiate themselves with the congreggation, without making anyone suspicious.) At least one of them should make a good enough impression to be accepted as a candidate. The priest then gives them an initiation task to complete that very night.

It couldn't be easier: Cain & Abel will leave their squad car at a particular intersection. One hour before dawn, the PCs must pick it up and drive it to the church as quickly as possible. Nothin' to it.

What the PCs don't know is that Cain and Abel's primary church duty is to murder one hobo, hooker, or street punk each week and bring them to the church for transubstantiation. What only Cain and Abel know is that they're planning to set the PCs up by making sure a couple of intensely paranoid beat cops just happen to wander down that street exactly one hour before dawn.

Thus, the Night Shift ends up in possession of a cop car with a dead hooker in the trunk, cops right on their heels. Time is of the essence, so a car chase might be in order, but a good bluff, gunfight, or fisticuffs are also good.

Once they arrive at the church, the priest greets them and takes them inside. They are given white robes and asked to "purify their thoughts" until called for. Just as the sun is rising, they are taken to the alter, with the entire inner circle crowding the pews behind them, and shown the miracle of the Divine Eucharist.

How your players want to handle the rest is up to them. In order to actually join the church, they'll have to eat human flesh. If they refuse, it's combat all around!

Fifth Column Note: This would be a good time to bring back Mary Miller. She's trying to infiltrate the First Church, same as the PCs (though her initiation task takes the form of a large, cash donation). This gives her one more chance to play the damsel in distress before the shit hits the fan.

Recommended Opener: Start the game with close-up shot of the trunk of a squad car. Someone off camera pulls it open to reveal a dead hooker on ice. Pan up and around to your heros, staring down in shocked disbelief as red and blue ligths begin to flash behind them. They'll need to know that their goal is to take the squad car somewhere ASAP, but that's about it. Good times.