David Franks

David Franks is the main protagonist of the 2008 Horror film Shark In Venice. He is a famous archaeologist and diver who traveled to Venice, Italy to investigate the mystery behind his father's death.
He is portrayed by Stephen Baldwin, Who also played Caleb Barnes in Absense of the Good.
== Biography ==
The film begins when David Franks teaching his college class at an Oceanographic Institute about diving before he was given the news about his father's death which was assumed to be a propeller accident. He and his wife Laura traveled to Venice to investigate about his own father's death. When he arrives at Venice David and Laura head to a hospital where he was shown on his father's course. David finds out that his father was killed by a Shark and that it was not caused by any boat.
He looks at a map that his father was using to find an ancient artifact. David, Laura , Sofia, and Bonasera sail out to the water before he puts on his diving suit and dives into the water. While searching around the tunnel in the water, David finds his father's watch before a shark attacks him biting his arm. David successfully swims away from a shark then enters an underground tunnel in the water and finds ancient artifacts before leaving the underground tunnel and was saved before he was about to get eaten by a shark. He was taken to a hospital before he was sent to meet a wealthy leader named Vito Clemenza for dinner who offers him a bribe of 2 million dollars to head back into the same cave where he found the ancient artifacts that are worth millions of dollars which he declines.
David and his wife Laura were walking around Venice before Vito's henchmen kidnapped Laura. Lt. Sofia Totti puts him in a hotel room where he can be safe. He in room before one of Vito's assassins breaks into his room and attempted to drug him. He fights them and escaped as they began misfiring shoots at David. He runs around Venice as the assassins chase him down before he hides in a nearby tool room before one of the assassins begins searching around the tool room and begins firing shots and reloads right as David grabs and a planks and begins fights the assassin and demanded on where he can find Laura. He tells David that she was on a boat. He takes a boat to get there before he gets captured by Vito's assassins.
David was taken to Vito and he reveals to David that he purposely added sharks into the waters of Venice for people to die, also revealing that he killed his father. Vito shows David that he has his wife Laura. Vito demanded David to find the treasure or he will feed his wife to the sharks. David and Vito's henchmen were sent down in diving gear to get the treasure. They make it to the underground tunnel and made it to the treasure. Rossi pulls out his gun and attempts to kill David by shooting him before Rossi dies from speared gate which closed onto himself. David escapes the underground tunnel and makes it back to Vito. David was saved by Lt. Sofia Totti before David and Vito began to fight. One shark swims up to Vito and eats him alive as his henchman gets defeated by Italian police. David now saved his wife and gives his wife a beautiful necklace.
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