![]() ![]() Porter attempts to help her sober up by confining her and confiscating her drugs, but the next morning he finds her dead from an overdose using a hidden stash. Porter first seeks out his wife, Lynn, out of loyalty to their marriage however, she has been consumed by guilt and become addicted to heroin. Val used the cash to buy his way back into "the Outfit," a local organized crime syndicate, by paying off his outstanding debt of $130,000 to them. Lynn shoots Porter, then she and Resnick leave Porter for dead. Resnick had manipulated Lynn into helping him with a picture showing Porter with another woman, a high-priced call girl named Rosie, and implying that the two were having an affair. In flashbacks, Porter recalls that they betrayed him following a $140,000 heist from local Chinese Triad. He then begins tracking down his estranged wife Lynn and former partner-in-crime Val Resnick. As the doctor uses the whiskey he is drinking as a sterilizing agent and digs out the bullets, Porter begins making his plans to get the money back and take revenge.īroke after five months recuperating, Porter uses a series of petty thefts and short cons to quickly acquire $1,000 in cash, a new suit, a revolver, and a few meals. ![]() Marine, lies facedown on the kitchen table of an unlicensed doctor, after having been shot twice and betrayed for $70,000. In 2006, Helgeland issued a director's cut that differs substantially from the version released by the studio. Westlake using the pseudonym Richard Stark, which had earlier been adapted into the 1967 film noir classic Point Blank, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin. It is based on the novel The Hunter by Donald E. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland in his directorial debut, and starring Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, and David Paymer. Payback is a 1999 American neo-noir action thriller film
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