Meanwhile, Dwight is recovering from his near-fatal wounds and calls Ava to inform her he's coming for her soon. (On an unrelated note, during the scene in which Mort kills Bob, while they are driving in the car you can clearly see Wendy and Marv drive past them, presumably on their way to butcher Kevin.) This culminates with Mort killing Bob, then committing suicide. When they speak with Dwight's landlady, she tells about letting Ava in and the resulting loud noises of the fight the night of Damien's murder.īob doubts Ava considerably now, while Mort, who is still sleeping with her, becomes more on-edge towards his partner. They interrogate Agamemnon, who tells how Dwight is an upright man who went clean after being a wild alcoholic with a short temper in his younger days. They believe her story, and Mort starts sleeping with her. She claims that Dwight was a stalker psychopath who killed Damien out of jealousy. Two detectives following up on Damien Lord's death, Mort and Bob, talk to Ava. He convinces Gail and Miho, a deadly assassin he saved three years prior, to let him stay, and they operate further on him. The girls of Old Town perform surgery on Dwight's multiple bullet wounds, then ask him to leave. Upon Dwight's insistence, Marv drives him to Old Town, where Dwight has his old flame, Gail, help him. Dwight once again falls out of a window and is picked up by Marv. She shoots Dwight six times, including once in the head. As Dwight begins to realize what he has done, Ava appears, and explains how Dwight was all a part of her plan to get Damien murdered so she could inherit his estate. When he finds him in his office, he beats him to death. With Manute and the guards occupied, Dwight makes his way to Damien. Marv tackles the guards as a distraction and eventually takes on Manute, ripping his right eye out and beating him savagely. As they approach the mansion, Dwight insists Marv leave the punk's gun, which Marv has procured, in the car. Dwight convinces Marv, over several drinks and whilst watching Nancy dance, to help him storm Damien's estate. One of them pulls a gun on Marv, who knocks him flat the rest quickly scatter. He awakens to see Manute driving off with Ava.ĭetermined to rescue her, Dwight arrives at Kadie's, where Marv is in the middle of a squabble with some out-of-town punks. Dwight is knocked out of his upper story apartment window to the street below, where he blacks out momentarily. Manute arrives and violently beats naked Dwight. Following a heated argument, they eventually reconcile and make love. Dwight calls Agamemnon for a ride home and they stop several times for fast food.Īs Dwight arrives home, he finds his Ford Mustang returned and his door unlocked. Manute, who seemingly doesn't recognize him from the bar, beats him brutally before throwing him from a car into the street. He is discovered and claims that he is simply a Peeping Tom. He hops a fence and, using his photography equipment, scopes out the estate and, in particular, Ava, who is swimming in the nude. He decides to check up on Ava and her new husband, Damien Lord. Just then, Manute, Ava's husband's valet, arrives and takes Ava away. Ava arrives late (as she often used to) and tries to persuade Dwight to take her back, claiming that her life is "a living Hell" Dwight refuses to listen. Dwight is suspicious of her, as Ava broke his heart four years ago by running off with another richer man, but he agrees to meet her anyway. That night, he receives a call from a woman named Ava, asking him to meet her at a seedy bar called Kadie's Club Pecos. The story begins as Dwight McCarthy, working as a photographer for a grossly overweight man named Agamemnon, saves one of the Old Town prostitutes from one of her customers, whom Dwight was investigating on behalf of his wife he then drives her back to Old Town. It has since been reprinted in graphic novel format in four separate editions. It was written and drawn entirely by Frank Miller. It is the second story in Frank Miller's Sin City series, and the first to be published in miniseries format. A Dame to Kill For is a comic book limited series first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1993.
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