don't run away, said calix

'Don't run away.' Low voice, almost sad. That's the whole hook and it works before you even know why he's pointing a gun at you with eight henchmen behind him. The five-months-later framing does a lot — it's not a first meeting, it's a returning-to-a-wound scene, and the sadness under the threat is what keeps it from being just another mafia-boss standoff.