Desperate to escape, he shoots The Blank. Escaping through tunnels to a drawbridge out of the city, Big Boy ends up trapped with the bridge up, so he ties Tess to the mechanisms, but he is confronted by both The Blank and Tracy, who orders the latter to kill the crime boss. He arrives at a shootout outside Big Boy's club where most of Big Boy's men are gunned down by the police and Tracy himself (only Mumbles and 88 Keys, Breathless' piano player, survive to be arrested). Sprung from jail by his colleagues on New Year's Eve, Tracy sets out to save his true love with the help of Kid, who now renamed himself as Dick Tracy, Jr. He is drugged by The Blank and framed for the murder of corrupt District Attorney John Fletcher.īig Boy is back in business, but he, too, is framed, in this case for Tess' kidnapping. She eventually has a change of heart, but before she can tell Tracy, she is kidnapped by The Blank. Tracy shows he is only human by allowing her to kiss him.

Meanwhile, Breathless shows up at Tracy's apartment, once again in an attempt to seduce him. Influence escapes as Tracy rescues Bug from the same fate given to Lips Manlis, and Big Boy is enraged upon hearing that The Blank foiled the hit. In the resulting gun battle, a figure with no face (known as 'The Blank') steps out of the shadows to save Tracy after he is cornered and kills Pruneface. Unfortunately, He discovers Bug and captures him for a trap planned by Influence and Pruneface to kill Tracy in the warehouse. The resultant raids all but wipe out his criminal empire. Tracy leads a seemingly unsuccessful raid on Club Ritz, but it's actually a diversion so officer Bug Bailey can enter the building to operate a secretly installed listening device so the police can hear in on Big Boy's criminal activities. He resists, despite his growing attraction. She agrees to testify only if Tracy agrees to give in to her advances. Tracy tries again to get the testimony from Breathless he needs to put Big Boy away. Next day, Big Boy and his henchmen kidnap Tracy to attempt to bribe him and nearly kill him after he refuses by tying him next to a boiler rigged to explode, but he is saved by Kid. Spaldoni refuses and meets an untimely demise upon exiting(via a car bomb), leaving Tracy, who discovered the meeting and was attempting to spy on it, wondering is going on. His next move is to try to bring other criminals, including Spuds Spaldoni, Pruneface, Influence, Ribs Mocco, Mumbles, and Numbers, together under his leadership. Big Boy cannot be indicted and he is released from jail. Instead of providing testimony, she unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Tracy. After Lips is reported missing, Tracy interrogates his three hired guns, Flattop, Itchy, and Mumbles, then goes to the club to arrest Big Boy for Lips' murder. He then kills him with a cement overcoat and steals his girlfriend, the seductive and sultry singer, Breathless Mahoney. Meanwhile, Big Boy coerces club owner Lips Manlis into signing over the deed to Club Ritz. After rescuing him from a ruthless host, Tracy temporarily adopts him with the help of his girlfriend, Tess Trueheart. Detective Dick Tracy catches the urchin (who calls himself ' Kid') in an act of petty theft.

Big Boy's crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. In the late 1930s, at an illegal private poker card game, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters named Shoulders, Stooge Viller, The Rodent, The Brow, and Little Face at the hands of Flattop Jones and Itchy, two of the hoods on the payroll of crime boss Alphonse 'Big Boy' Caprice.

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