The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Special Operations Bureau, Downtown Los Angeles.

Erica took over the shift, walked out of Team A's office, returned to her own locker room, took off her training uniform, changed back into a women's suit, took out her cell phone, and called Hawke.

Hawke said, "I'm waiting for you in the hall."

"I'll be there soon." Erica walked downstairs lightly. When she entered the hall, she saw Hawke sitting on a bench. She ran over, took his arm, and said, "I'm off work. I can go home now."

Hawke looked at his watch and said, "That's great. I can watch the second half of the award ceremony when I get back."

The two got into Erica's Mercedes-Benz G.

Erica started the car, left the Special Operations Bureau, and asked, "Did you go to the scene?"

“Just came from there.” Hawke couldn’t help laughing when he thought of the tanks colliding with the biological matrix. “This is definitely the most special Oscars. It will be remembered in the history of Hollywood.”

Erica said, "I watched the surveillance video of the scene in the command room." She was puzzled: "Those feminists clearly had the upper hand, why did they suddenly collapse?"

Hawke put it simply: "The gay community has mobilized a group of AIDS and syphilis patients."

Erica was speechless for a while before she said, "This is really unexpected."

She turned her head and glanced at Hawke quickly: "It wasn't your idea, was it?"

"No, I don't pay much attention to how to do this kind of thing." Hawke said the truth: "I just guided their thinking and left it to the people below to play freely."

Erica asked curiously, "Why do you keep staring at them?"

Hawke explained in detail: "It's hard to say in those conservative states, but in Southern California, this is a social development trend. Even without my participation, they will develop rapidly and become a force that cannot be ignored. So instead of being controlled by others, we should take the initiative and control them in our own hands, so that they can become the knives in our hands."

Erica agreed: "Of course the knife should be held in your own hands."

The two smiled at each other.

Back in the Silver Lake community, Hawke entered the specimen villa and found the TV remote control. He turned on the TV and switched to ABC. The Oscars ceremony had already entered the second half.

Erica said, "The Best Original Screenplay award is coming up. Did Eric get a nomination?"

Hawke sat on the sofa and looked at the TV. Samuel L. Jackson was reading out the films and screenwriters who won the Best Original Screenplay.

"Million Dollar Baby" is an adapted film, so naturally there was no nomination for the original screenplay.

Black Salted Egg opened the envelope and announced the winner: "The Best Original Screenplay is Nightcrawler, Eric Eason!"

The TV screen gave a close-up of Eric. The artistic middle-aged bearded man had a look of surprise on his face. He hugged the square-faced girl Catherine, walked quickly to the podium, and received the first Oscar trophy in his life.

When he finished his acceptance speech, Hawke took out his phone, typed a text message, and sent it to Eric: "Congratulations."

Erica pulled out her phone and checked, then said, "The Best Actress award has been presented, and the winner is Hilary Swank."

Hawke exclaimed: "It's rare in recent years to be crowned queen twice."

Next, the Best Director award, presented by Julia Roberts, was won by Clint Eastwood as expected.

In the history of Hollywood, no one has ever won the four major acting awards and Best Director at the same time.

Hawke said: "Tom Cruise's only real competitor is Leonardo DiCaprio."

The next award was for Best Actor, with close-ups given to Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio respectively.

Hawke has been busy with so much during awards season that one of his two goals, Osment's marginalized project, has been a huge success.

Another goal is to win this award.

Last year's Best Actress Charlize Theron came on stage and presented the Best Actor award.

Oscar history is completely rewritten at this moment!
South African Diamond announced: "The winner of Best Actor is Tom Cruise!"

There were no surprises, as the Oscars once again matched the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Tom Cruise buttoned up his suit and walked quickly toward the stage.

On the other side, Nicole Kidman was the first to stand up and applaud, and she frequently raised her hands to signal the people around her to stand up and applaud.

As if the winner was still her husband.

The Oscars' chief photographer and director were very good at gimmicks, and a close-up of Nicole Kidman immediately appeared on the TV screen.

Erica didn't know much about Hollywood, so she asked in surprise, "I remember they became enemies, didn't they?"

Hawke did not answer, but said: "The Oscars are still too conservative, no wonder the ratings are getting worse and worse. Take the Best Actor award for example, Nicole Kidman should present the award to Tom Cruise, and it would be better to promote it before the award ceremony, and the ratings can be at least 10 percentage points higher." Erica couldn't help laughing: "Indeed, the Oscars' hype is far inferior to yours."

While the two were chatting and laughing, the last grand prize of this year's Oscars was announced, and the Best Picture Oscar was won by the crew of "Million Dollar Baby".

Clint Eastwood became the biggest winner of the night.

"Night Crawler" won two Oscars.

Hawke successfully completed Tom Cruise's commission.

Just after the awards ceremony, Hawke received a call from Tom Cruise.

He shouted excitedly: "Did you watch the live broadcast? I got it! I got it!"

For Hollywood actors and stars, winning the Best Actor award at the three major European film festivals is also an honor, but the commercial bonus and influence are far less than that of the local Oscar winner.

Tom Cruise said that he didn't care, but he really wanted to win the award: "I'm an Oscar winner now! Hawke, this statuette belongs to you half, I've decided to cast a similar statuette out of pure gold for you!"

Hawke didn't care and said, "You don't have to be so polite."

"You must accept it!" Tom Cruise is a smart man. The series of incidents in which Pat Kingsley and Nicole Kidman attacked him made him fully aware of one thing: Scientology has no voice in public opinion. When being attacked, it can only endure it silently, and it is difficult to fight back.

He wanted to maintain his relationship with Hawke: "I know you don't need this kind of thing, Hawke, but it represents my thoughts, please accept it."

Hawke thought about it for a moment and said, "Okay."

Tom Cruise laughed and said, "I'll have someone cast it as soon as possible and send it to you when you move to your new home."

He invited her again: "I will hold a celebration party in Beverly Hills next week. Please come and join us if you have time."

Hawke responded, "I'll go if time permits."

After he hung up the phone, Erica came over and said, "The Scientology behind Tom Cruise is quite troublesome. It's involved in many murders. You should pay attention to it."

Hawke nodded slightly: "He is a smart man. He knows who to provoke and who not to provoke."

Erica said: "To be able to stand firm in this chaotic place of Hollywood for 20 years and still stand at the top of the acting industry is enough to show his vision and ability."

"There is one more thing." Hawke said more practically: "There are some things I am learning from the Donkey Party. The Donkey Party has their strengths in some aspects."

Erica looked up at Hawke.

Hawke continued, "During a series of events last year, the Donkey Party used Leonardo to release entertainment news several times to attract the attention of the media and public opinion at a critical moment when they were facing a crisis of public opinion. If I hadn't been prepared in advance, they might have been able to escape the vortex of decline."

Those bastards of the Donkey Party always release Leonardo when things go wrong, and it works every time.

Erica thought about it and said, "This trick really works. The public pays more attention to the gossip and scandals of entertainment stars, and the enthusiasm for social current affairs rises quickly and fades even faster."

She added: "I have read a social survey report done by my grandfather. The education level and cultural level of ordinary Americans are relatively poor. As a result, they don't care much about things other than themselves. They don't even have a specific concept of areas outside of the United States. That's why entertainment stars can attract their long-term attention."

"As for happy education for the lower classes, only if it continues to spread can the rule of the upper classes be consolidated." Hawke said nonsense.

He remembered one thing. When he was a teenager in his previous life, many boys in his class were discussing the world's political landscape.

Old men in their sixties and seventies on the street can argue over geopolitical conflicts in a certain region of the world.

The Oscars ceremony is over, but the hot news headlines on the Internet have been taken over by the fight between feminism and homosexuality.

The Matthewsing Society and the Sisters March used Twitter as a platform to start an online war of words, creating a chaotic atmosphere.

The latter lost offline, but became the biggest winner of the Oscars with "Million Dollar Baby" and successfully won back the game online.

In Hawke's opinion, the evolution speed of both sides was a bit slow, but for his current needs, it was enough.

His instructions to Fiona, Rosa, and Sora were to expand their influence in their respective organizations and gain more power.

In Southern California, centered on Los Angeles, blue forces are in retreat.

But in the Northern California region centered on San Francisco, many places are still dominated by the blue camp.

In order to win back California and prevent it from turning red, they are actively preparing for the next gubernatorial election.

The original candidate was San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, but the Donald Trump Party believed that he lacked sufficient experience and had a good background but insufficient ability to face the complex situation in California today. So they persuaded Jerry Brown, a veteran Donald Trump Party politician who served as California Governor from 1975 to 1983, to prepare for the next California gubernatorial election.

The next morning, Hawke had just arrived at the company when Edward came over and said, "There's news from Campos that BlackRock's two big bosses, Larry Fink and Robert Capito, have come to the FBI Los Angeles branch." (End of this chapter)