Inside her apartment, a frightened Shellie is comforted by Dwight - with a new face since the events of A Dame To Kill For - as the drunken Jackie Boy bangs on the door.

Jackie Boy enters and insists Shellie call her fellow barmaids to join his pub crawl but she refuses, and Jack hits her.

Speeding after Jack's car, Dwight catches the attention of police, who follow them to the border of Old Town, the area of Sin City populated by prostitutes.

The bodies are sliced up to fit in the trunk of a car, leaving Jack in the passenger seat, and Dwight begins the rainy drive to the Pits.

The mercenaries finds Jackie Boy's badge, having stopped the bullet, and Dwight disposes of several of them but is knocked into the pits with the sinking car.

Dwight recalls the Battle of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas defeated his enemies in a narrow trap (a story Miller would later tell in 300).

The gangsters realize their fatal mistake as the heavily armed girls of Old Town appear on the rooftops, opening fire until, in Dwight's words, "the things we're pumping bullets into are nothing but twisted toppling screaming smudges of movement."

[1] Faragher comments that "this is a beautiful book studded with rusty nails, a glorious synergy of text and art and a must read for all his fans.

The film was directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, with Quentin Tarantino co-directing The Big Fat Kill, specifically the drive-to-the-pits scene in which Dwight talks with a dead Jack Rafferty.