He then escapes from the train and heads to a bar looking for clues. Nick spots the last name of Hailey and realises that she is is daughter. Blue’s hit team comes to the bathroom and is shot by Nick then drowned in the toilet, Nick snaps at Happy and causes him to leave with one parting request that Nick looks at the newspaper on the floor. Happy is horrified but soon after the train stops and a member of Mr. Nick is then fired from the force and he spends his days drinking until he is approached with an offer to kill someone for money which leads him down the path to where the story starts. Nick refuses with a simple “f-k you” and they send the evidence of the affair to his wife who leaves him, with a positive pregnancy test shown in the trash.

Blue starts to try and get Nick and McCarthy to work with them by blackmailing with evidence of the affair. A criminal group led by the mysterious Mr. He finds that the only person he can confide to is his partner, Maireadh McCarthy and an affair starts between them. It’s revealed that Nick was a star cop on the force and was happily married, however the constant death and exposure to the horrific side of the world leads him down a path of drinking and causes a rift between him and his wife. Nick hops on a train out of the city and ends up in the bathroom with a newspaper while he talks to Happy. After beating away a hit squad sent to the hospital, he escapes to a poker game where he uses Happy to his advantage to win money, however the men within the game refuse to let him leave due to the hit on his head so he kills them and flees. Nick refuses to help Happy and instead tries to flee the city due to the fact that he’s being hunted by the mob for the password to the money. Happy tells Nick that he needs his help to save Hailey who has been kidnapped by a man dressed like Santa Claus. Found bleeding out in the snow, he is rushed to the hospital and revived where he meets Happy the horse, the imaginary friend of a little girl named Hailey. The hit goes wrong and instead Nick Sax kills four brothers, one who has a password that opens the way to a fortune, and gets shot himself. Happy! tells the story of an alcoholic, drug addled ex-cop turned contract killer who is hired to take out a hit on three brothers.

Happy by grant morrison