The Soup Kitchen, widely known as The Bowery, is a vast intelligence network run by The Bowery King in New York. It masqueraded as a homeless shelter and consists of many agents in the form of homeless people. It was unaffiliated with the High Table until the Bowery King requested his services to them.
History[]
Rise to Power and Operations[]
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The Bowery's evidence wall.
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John Wick entering The Soup Kitchen.
At the east end of Manhattan Bridge, an unremarkable building topped with pigeon lofts. After experiencing mercy at the hands of a younger John Wick, The Bowery King rose through the ranks to become the head of a vast network of intelligence operatives, covering almost every corner of New York City. This network relies largely on various agents in the form of homeless vagrants and panhandlers, using access to the city's underground tunnels and passageways to quickly move about with ease.
A data microchip being put in a small pocket in the pigeon leg for delivery.
The Bowery King also manages a flock of homing pigeons, used for secure delivery of messages in the form of microchips or other small objects. Keeping these communications off of phone lines and the internet ensures an additional level of secrecy. The Bowery also has its own investigative office where they list, gather, analyze, and track down information and whereabouts of criminals from the underworld. This is possible if they plotted where they would station their operatives in order to offer information on their targets.
John Wick: Chapter 2[]
One of the Bowery King's men helped hide John and killed two contract killers sent after him. Afterwards, two more of the Bowery King's men disposed of the bodies before taking John to the Soup Kitchen to be healed.
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum[]
After The Bowery's main base was decimated by the Adjudicator's mercenary army, led by Zero, the Bowery King and his remaining men go to another base with John to wage war against the High Table.
John Wick: Chapter 4[]
Months later, The Bowery King helped John recover and prepared John for his war against the High Table. It is also known that the Bowery King expanded his intelligence network into Paris during this time. After assassinating the Elder, John eventually challenged French aristocrat and High Table senior, Vincent Bisset de Gramont to a duel for his freedom after his re-admittance into the Ruska Roma following his successful mission to kill Killa Harkan, a German mob boss who killed Ruska Roma leader Pyotr under the Marquis' orders.
While preparing for the duel in Paris, John went to an underground train station named La résistance, occupied by the Bowery King's operatives, where he met up with the Bowery King and Winston Scott, the former providing John with a new ballistic suit to aid him.
Agents[]
Earl after killing the assassins chasing John with his fellow men as cleaners.
The Tick Tock Man reminding John's remaining time before his excommunication.
The Bowery King stationed the majority of his forces, usually beggars and panhandlers, mostly at crucial transportation hubs across the city to act as his eyes and ears. The majority of them are secretly armed with guns and some of them are tasked to be cleaners.
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Trivia[]
- The criminals listed in the Bowery's board such as Wick, Volkov, Vasilyev, Pyzocha, Lebedev, and Hernandez are also listed on the Administration's top ten criminals who had bounties.