Complex sentence: Max goes to see Duke on his boat to persuade him to help him but Duke refuses and becomes apprehensive upon seeing the tattoo on Max's left arm-he has been told that someone with that tattoo is going to kill him.
Split into simpler sentences: Max goes to see Duke on his boat to persuade him to help him but Duke refuses and becomes apprehensive upon seeing the tattoo on Max's left arm. He has been told that someone with that tattoo is going to kill him.