Low Life
El Monstruo is a disgraced luchador descended from a legendary line of Mexican luchadores, who each take up the mask of El Monstruo, the “protector of the downtrodden”. The current El Monstruo has fallen on hard times and works as a henchmen for local crime lord Teddy “Bear” Haynes. With the help of the corrupt ICE Agent Fowler, Teddy kidnaps illegal immigrants for the prostitution and organ harvesting ring run out of the basement of his taco shack. One day when El Monstruo escorts a customer to one of Teddy’s sex slaves, the girl appears to believe he is there to save her, but he shamefully replies “I am not that El Monstruo”. El Monstruo lives in contempt and hopes that his unborn son, carried by Teddy’s adopted daughter Kaylee, will be able to bring honour back to the legacy he disgraced.
When El Monstruo fails to get Teddy’s money back from a man, Teddy fires him and implies that he’s going to have them both killed. Kaylee quickly begins to pack but El Monstruo refuses to believe that his “Jefe Teddy” would betray them. When Kaylee threatens to hurt their baby if El Monstruo won’t let her leave, he falls into a rage and wakes up to find Kaylee gone and their house a ruin.
