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| “ | Sounds nice and kinky to me. Too bad you're not double-jointed. | „ |
| ~ Brenda answering to Fargo's rape threats |
Brenda is the leader of The Satins Gang and the main protagonist of the film Savage Streets, which is a 1984 vigilante action street gang movie.
History[]
Brenda, her best friend, Francine and deaf, innocent sister Heather are out one evening, along with three other friends, Maria, Stevie and Stella. Unable to hear her surroundings, Heather innocently wanders into the path of a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air convertible, which sees her but doesn't slow down. Brenda pulls her sister out of the way before she's hit by the vehicle.
The car stops, and its occupants are no strangers to Brenda. They're "The Scars", a gang of mid-level drug dealers that employ a number of street level hustlers to sell their product. Behind the wheel is Fargo (Sal Landi), leader Jake (Robert Dryer) in the passenger seat, and Red and Vince are in the backseat.
Rather than get an apology, Brenda instead gets propositioned for sex and drugs by Jake, which she flatly refuses. The gang takes off. Brenda and her friends then happen upon The Scars' empty vehicle parked in an alley while the gang is delivering a collection beating to Fadden (one of their pushers and a classmate of Vince and the Satins). The girls jump in the car and take off, shouting obscenities to the gang as they drive off. The gang tries to catch the car on foot, but their efforts are in vain. They later find the car in a nearby alley with garbage strewn inside.
At Vince and Brenda's school, when Heather is waiting in the gym for Brenda to take her home, Red sneaks into the gym. He talks to Heather and manages to gain her trust in a rather short period of time. He then tries to forcibly kiss her. She breaks away from him and tries to flee, but the other gang members have all the gym entrances covered. They drag the helpless girl to one of the locker rooms where they take turns at raping her. Jake yanks Vince's pants down and has him go first, as a "first-time" gift. The other gang members follow. Afterwards, before he flees with his gang, Jake, not wanting to take any chances with the local police, then kicks Heather in the side of the head. The unresponsive and bloodied girl is then left in the locker room.
After fighting in the locker room shower with her rival, cheerleader Cindy Clark, Brenda goes to one of her routine principal's office visits. Afterwards, she and her friends return to the gym to collect her sister but find her gone. The girls spread out to search for her, and a hysterical Maria charges into the gym from the locker rooms screaming for Brenda, having made the grisly discovery.
Heather is rushed to the hospital, where she is listed in critical condition. Brenda, frustrated at the slow pace of the investigation, goes out to a bar with her friends, where she confides her fears of losing Heather to a bartending friend, Charlene. Also at the same bar are The Scars, who are collecting again from Fadden. While there, The Scars are also trying to find Vince another "date" for the evening, by pulling over any woman within reach towards their table. One of them happens to be Francine. As they continue to pass her around their table, two men witnessing the scene go to the table and tell Jake and his gang to leave her alone. A fight breaks out between the men and The Scars. When her boyfriend, Richie, tries to join the fight, Jake grabs him by the throat, and Francine swipes him in the cheek with a switchblade. Jake gets up and lunges towards Francine, but she is out of reach by this time.
The next day at school, Brenda doesn't pay attention in her classes, as all she can think about is Heather. She also completely turns down advice and any offer of help from her English teacher. In biology class, after another fight with Cindy, Brenda goes to the principal's office and is suspended. Later that afternoon, Brenda, Stella, Stevie, Maria, Rachel and Richie are waiting for Francine to show up with her wedding dress, for her and Richie's upcoming wedding, but she runs late. Unbeknownst to any of them, when she was walking home carrying the dress, Francine was followed by the Scars, and they chased after her in their car, cornering her on a bridge. Jake, in retaliation for scaring his face the other night and breaking his promise to Vince not to hurt Francine, threw her off of it to the street below, killing her, prompting Vince to quit the gang.
Brenda leaves to go to the hospital to see Heather, and she finds Vince at her bedside, tearfully trying to apologize to the comatose girl for his actions. After hearing that, Brenda, knowing now that the Scars did this, furiously runs Vince off. Later that evening, Brenda, fearing the worst of Francine, decides to take action. Dressing in a leather suit and armed with a switchblade, several bear traps and a crossbow, she takes off from her home. In the meantime, her mother gets the call telling them that Francine is dead. Her mother tries to stop her, but Brenda is long gone.
Brenda's first stop is at Vince's house, where she tricks her way inside by telling his father that she needs his help for a homework assignment. She makes her way to his bedroom, where she sees him packing to run. At knifepoint, Vince tells Brenda that Francine is dead and that he couldn't do anything to stop it. She spares Vince' life after he tells her where to find the gang.
Afterwards, Brenda is waiting for Fargo and Red as they return to their "home" in a warehouse. She confronts them and coerces them inside, despite Red's sense that something's wrong if she's not afraid of them. Fargo proceeds ahead with Red behind him. Fargo eventually finds Brenda and tells her what he's going to do to her once he gets his hands on her. Brenda responds by shooting a crossbow arrow into his throat. Moments later, Red finds Fargo's body, and also Brenda waiting for him; however, Brenda doesn't shoot another arrow. The bear traps take care of Red when he falls backwards upon them in fear.
After killing Vince for leaving the gang, Jake returns to the warehouse, pounding on the door for Fargo and Red to raise it. Not getting a response, he raises the overhead door and sees the two strung-up bodies of his fallen gangmates. Brenda's voice calls off from a distance, telling him he's next. Jake pulls out a pistol and fires it in every direction, hoping one of the bullets will hit her. Brenda responds by launching an arrow into both of his thighs.
After being taunted by Brenda, Jake stumbles towards the warehouse gate, but Brenda has a snare trap in wait, suspending him upside down by his ankles. After stringing him up, she tells him his death is not going to be quick. Jake manages to distract her long enough to grab the gate's door and pull it towards her, knocking her in the head and to the ground. He manages to free himself and climb on top of her, but she stabs him near the crotch with her switchblade. Brenda gets up, still wounded from the gate, and tries to get into her car; however, when she turns and sees Jake standing and coming after her, she screams, indicating she's now afraid of Jake (this is the only time in the movie Brenda shows any true fear). She manages to escape to another warehouse full of paints and solvents.
Armed with a can of flammable solvent, and when he surprises her, Brenda throws the can's contents at Jake, covering him almost entirely. As Jake tries to strangle her, Brenda pulls out her cigarette lighter and sets him on fire just as she's ready to pass out. A screaming Jake, now on fire, flees the warehouse and stumbles into the parking lot, presumably dead, just as police arrive on the scene. Brenda was caught by the police at the end of her vigilante-killings and therefore faced an upcoming prosecution.
Brenda and her friends, including a fully recovered Heather, go to Francine's gravesite. Though according to the girls, Brenda "made things right", her actions still did not bring back Francine.