Plot Never Die Alone

hardened criminal , drug dealer king david (dmx) returns unidentified east coast city, can find redemption settling old score drug lord moon (clifton powell). keeps tape-recorded journals life , talking woman named edna. upon david s return, meets jasper (luenell), barkeep expresses strong dislike towards him. contacts moon inform him of return , willingness pay debt, momentarily passing paul (david arquette), struggling writer.

mike (michael ealy), 1 of moon s henchmen, assigned collect boss s money david, appearing interested in him reason. prior deal, warned not sabotage deal in order avert police attention. he, friend blue (antwon tanner) , sister ella (drew sidora) go david , collect money. mike tense upon arriving @ location of pickup, prompting blue authorize him. after brief tense transaction between blue , david, latter set ambush. mike angrily demands if david recognizes him, , proceeds stab him multiple times in abdomen after receiving several taunts. weakened david stabs blue in eye ice pick before abandon him in gutter. paul, passes @ moment, drives david, total stranger, hospital.

paul informed king has died , has left him personal possessions. items include jewelry, car (which rare stutz blackhawk), , collection of audio tapes. meanwhile, moon unnerved mike botching deal using violence against david , becomes paranoid of police attention. after being informed of blue s injury, tells 2 wait in parking garage car come , drive them hospital. instead, sets them 2 henchmen shoot , kill blue , ella, mike s horror. before mike can killed himself, gains gravity of situation , guns down henchmen, unable retain sister s life dies in arms. vows revenge against moon double-cross.

as paul listens journal, story of david s life told: after particularly bad drug experience in east, david relocated west in search of second chance. finds assistance vietnamese , new girlfriend, janet (jennifer sky), whom abuses. television star, turns david s heroin , becomes sick , detached in process. david abandons presumably turns selling drugs pay bills , drug habit.

in present, moon sends out duo of henchmen kill mike. additionally, moon learns of paul s involvement in situation bystanders role of david s driver hospital, , requests murder, well. paul, meanwhile, continues listen tapes; after abandons janet, david moves on juanita (reagan gomez-preston), college student meets in upscale bar. relationship goes david starts make lot of money, juanita tries drugs. doesn t addicted, turn out selfish refusing move in david, insisting $250,000 isn t enough on retire. angry, david secretly switches cocaine heroin, getting addicted.

paul realizes money david talked might in david s trunk. is, @ same time, moon s henchmen sprawling on city in search of him. mike follows moon s limo via cab secluded back-alley, @ follows him bathhouse , proceeds kill him.

paul listens last tape; david leaves juanita, comes back, addicted , begging help. agrees out, providing drug fix in exchange sex. humiliation , disgrace shatters dreams , causes severe emotional distress, making addictions stronger. after while, demands pay entrance rehabilitation or else ll call police. enraged, david decides same thing did edna: mix heroin car battery acid, resulting in fatal seizure her. through flashback, revealed david biological father of mike, edna s child, , david brutally hit him before poisoning edna (which explains scar on face). tape ends david speculating on how return east coast bring redemption moon , tie loose end edna s child, unaware of mike in second encounter.

paul found moon s henchmen, hold him @ gunpoint, mike arrives on time , kills them. paul tells mike king father, haunts latter. police converge on scene, 2 make escape paul flees on foot , michael takes david s car. shortly afterward, paul writes story based on night, titled never die alone, turned down publishing magazine agent believes fictionalized story. david cremated after. narration focuses on end of life , how fate had such powerful effect on not life on lives of paul, mike, edna, juanita, moon, , else. meanwhile, mike drives through tunnel , escapes without capture.