Robert G. Durant

And immediately at the same time, it has already fallen into the wrong hands.

because then we have Mr. Robert G. Durant.

Yes.

His middle initial is G.

crime lord.

So we have Mr.

Crime Lord Robert G. Durant.

Conveniently, at the same time that Julie is talking to her client, he storms Dr. Westlake's apartment slash lab for the document itself.

It's gotta be the first time that's happened.

Darkman II: The Return of Durant is a 1995 direct-to-video superhero film directed by Bradford May.

Good job, Bradford.

It follows Darkman.

I don't know about that.

I, I think he did a perfectly fine job, and we'll talk about it.

This film follows, uh, Mr. Larry Darkman, previously Peyton Westlake, a once zany scientist who after being brutally attacked in his own lab by notorious criminal Robert G. Durant, is now not so zany at all.

He's really worked on himself.

It's crazy, isn't it? Doug E.

Fresh is talking on his cellular telephone as rival gangster Robert Durant pulls up with his crew.

Robert Durant is I forgot to mention him earlier.

We were talking about casting, but a lot of Gen Xers would probably be familiar with him.

So the actor's name is Larry Drake.

weapons.

Yeah.

So Durant's crew is escorted into the warehouse to meet up with Eddie's crew, of course.

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The Return of Durant and Die, Darkman, Die.

I believe that these four sequels do not have to do with those.

But we on this podcast, having just launched a Darkman mini season, or season, whatever you wanna call it, we're gonna learn.

DarkmanWell, yeah, he does perspective chapters for the first 12 chapters, for the first part of the book, and then he skips over to doing something else 'cause he's constantly cheating by the end of the [laughs] each perspective chapter anyway.

Okay, so the prologue is called Eddie.

Eddie is the guy who, uh, uh, in the opening scene of the film, uh, Durant will kill him and his men at the dock.

Uh, it says, "His name was Eddie Black, and he didn't take grief from anybody.