- "I have come to take you to Tropoje to face you to the people whose lives you have ruined. To give them justice."
- ―Murad reveals his motive to Bryan Mills.
Murad Hoxha was a crime boss, alpha sex trafficker, and freelance terrorist who was the head of the Albanian Mafia. He is the main antagonist of the 2012 film, Taken 2.
Biography[]
Murad was the father of Marko Hoxha, one of the kidnappers who took Bryan Mills' daughter, Kimberly Mills for sex trafficking. After Bryan killed Marko by electrocuting him to death, Murad became bent on avenging his son as well and many other Albanian terrorists that Bryan had killed during his search for Kim.
Murad and his men tortured a former corrupt cop, an ex-friend of Bryan's, to learn Bryan's identity before killing him, and then tracked Bryan, Kim, and his ex-wife Lenore to Istanbul, Turkey. Murad's men captured both Bryan and Lenore, but Kim, who was still at the hotel, received instructions from Bryan which allowed her to help free him. An obviously unfortunate to a slightly fortunate carrion degree, he unfortunately told Bryan while in captivity that Kim would be sold back into prostitution to be "had by so many men that she will be nothing more than a piece of meat not even a dog would have" and he would have to watch Lenore die of blood loss. He then had his men cut a small slit in Lenore's neck and hung her upside down, right in front of Bryan. Murad then left to make sure that Kim was captured, but she had already escaped and made her way toward the location of her parents. Kim let Bryan out and the two escaped. Murad's men pursued them, but they managed to escape unharmed.
Toward the end of the film, Bryan found Murad's safehouse where Lenore was held captive. Bryan killed the last of Murad's men before he confronted Murad himself, saying that he does not want to kill him simply because he is "tired of it all". Murad claimed that if Bryan killed him, his sons would try to avenge him, so Bryan agreed to let him go as long as he left him and his family alone. Bryan dropped his gun and began to walk away, but Murad picked it up and aimed it at him. However, Bryan had intentionally unloaded it beforehand and realized that Murad would never drop his vendetta against him. After he knew that his family would always be under threat as long as Murad was alive, Bryan becomes infuriated and kills him by pushing him into a coat hook, which impaled Murad through the back of his neck.
Personality[]
Murad was naturally a cold, callous, calculating and amoral individual, being the head of the Albanian Mafia. While he did genuinely grieve for the loss of his sons and many of his men (as well as being sympathetic to their families), Murad was a certifiable hypocrite given his crimes. He chastised Bryan for the killing the traffickers and ruining their families' lives, while the Albanian Mafia had abducted, enslaved and murdered random women and girls from around the world, ruining both the their lives and the lives of the families they were taken from. For this, Murad seemed to either lack self-awareness for his hypocrisy, or simply refusing to acknowledge it as, being sex trafficker, he had to actively dehumanize and diminish his victims.
Murad's dishonorable nature is made even more apparent when he tries to shoot Bryan in the back with a gun he left behind, despite being shown mercy and promising to end his vendetta against him, leading to his death.
Quotes[]
- "He slaughtered our men, our brothers, our sons. The dead cry out to us for justice. On their souls, I swear to you. The man who took our loved ones from us, the man who has brought us such pain and sorrow, we will find him. We will bring him here. We will not rest until his blood flows into this very ground. We will have our revenge."
- "If it brings them peace, call it whatever you want."
- "I don't care what he did!"
Trivia[]
- Murad is the closest to an equal for Bryan Mills seen in the series. He is a concerned father who is willing to do whatever it takes for his child, even if it means torture. He even wears a leather jacket.