
While she does use it for protection - she killing someone who would have killed her otherwise - she, out of that situation, begins a vigilante killing spree.

Finding it difficult to feel safe anymore especially in the bureaucratic manner the police deal with her case, she, in need of that immediate feeling of safety, illegally purchases a 9mm handgun on the black market for protection.

One of three perpetrators filmed the incident on his cell phone. That all changes when, out for a walk with her fiancé David Kirmani and their dog one evening, they are viciously attacked and beaten, she left in a coma for three weeks and he who succumbs to his injuries. One can tell that Erica Bain loves New York City - where she lives - by the poetic way she speaks on her local radio show about the walks she takes around the city.
