![]() ![]() While he talks to Emmet about the rent, a helicopter flies across the small lake next to Emmet's property and swings low over his horse corral, startling the horses. At a nearby farm, owned by an old man named Emmet, he rents a loft apartment. He also stops at a junkyard and buys several mounted tires, throwing them in the trunk. Dalton goes to a used-car lot and buys another old clunker, a 1965 Buick Riviera. Dalton and Cody's band are plainly old acquaintances. Dalton also catches up with the band's leader, the blind guitarist Cody, who plays behind a chicken-wire cage to avoid being hit by bottles thrown by customers. Morgan has beaten up several patrons, seemingly enjoying it. Several pieces of furniture are destroyed, one of the bouncers, Steve, has a nasty shiner on his face. Near the end of the night, a violent brawl becomes widespread among the customers and bouncers. Dalton remains passive, watching the club and seeing that several of the staff are unsuited to the job, are dealing drugs or are too busy fraternizing with female customers to care about breaking up the brawls that occur. One of the bouncers says it's rumored that Dalton killed a man by tearing out his throat with his bare hand. Already something of a legend in the bouncing business, several of the other bouncers react with excitement at his presence. One of the waitresses, Carrie, asks Dalton who he is and recognizes his name. Inside, Dalton stands by the bar, waiting for Tilghman to arrive. Before he enters the place, a large bouncer with a mean attitude, Morgan, violently tosses out a troublemaker. Dalton arrives in Jasper, Missouri and goes directly to Tilghman's club, the Double Deuce. In the garage, he takes the cover off his real car, a 1986 Mercedes 560, and drives out of town. Dalton goes to a local parking garage driving an old clunky 1964 Buick Riviera and tosses the keys to the attendant, telling the old man to keep the car if he wants it. Dalton turns it down, saying he thinks flying's too dangerous. Tilghman gladly accepts the offer and hands Dalton a plane ticket. Dalton tells him he'll work for him for $5000 up front, $500 a night and that when the bar is cleaned up, he can leave. Just after Tilghman bought the place, it attracted a violent crowd. The man's name is Tilghman and he wants to hire Dalton to help him clean up a bar he'd just bought outside of Kansas City. Back inside the club, the tall businessman introduces himself to Dalton, who is stitching up the wound he'd just received. Dalton tells him "Outside." When they're outside, Dalton smiles and leaves them there with five of the biggest bouncers guarding the door. Dalton seems unfazed, especially when the customer says he wants to fight him. Dalton turns around and the customer grabs a nearby knife and slashes Dalton on his upper arm. The customer apologizes, saying they'll behave. When a small fight breaks out involving three of the bouncers, he approaches the customer who started the brawl and tells him and his friend they should leave. Nearby is a man named Dalton, the head bouncer or "cooler," who carefully watches over the crowd and the bouncers. Inside, he finds the bar is very lively - lots of customers drinking and dancing, a band playing loud, bluesy rock and lots of cash being taken in by the bartenders. A limo pulls up and a tall gentleman steps out and is allowed to enter the place after showing the bouncer at the door his business card. The story opens at a bar called Bandstand in an unidentified town. Wesley wants money from these people and is responsible for much mayhem. Dalton has rented a room from a man named Emmet, and has befriended local auto-parts store owner Red Webster, and has also befriended Pete Stroudenmire, the owner of Stroudenmire Ford, a local car dealership. Wesley is out to get rid of Dalton, who has already made some friends in Jasper. Wesley is also responsible for a lot of the violence at the Double Deuce, and for some time, Wesley has had the Sheriff in his pocket, giving him complete control of the town of Jasper. ![]() Dalton and Doc soon fall in love with each other, and this angers Brad Wesley, a crime boss, with whom Doc was once involved, and may still be involved. Dalton is injured on his first night on the job and is treated by Elizabeth "Doc" Clay, the local doctor. The band is led by Dalton's old friend Cody, who is blind. There's even a cage protecting the bar's band from the customers. Frank Tilghman, the owner of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, has hired Dalton away from a bar in New York City, because Tilghman needs someone who can handle the nightly outbreaks of violence at the Double Deuce, and teach the rest of the Double Deuce's bouncers how to handle it. Dalton is an expert "cooler," a bar-room bouncer who can break up fights without getting himself killed in the process. ![]()
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