Jimmy Dix

James Alexander "Jimmy" Dix is the deuteragonist in the 1991 action-thriller film The Last Boy Scout.
He was portrayed by Damon Wayans who also portrayed Major Payne in Major Payne (1995), Michael Richard Kyle in the TV series My Wife and Kids (2001), and Roger Murtaugh in the 2016 TV adaptation of Lethal Weapon.
==History==
Jimmy Dix is a former quarterback for the L.A. Stallions who was banned from the league on gambling charges and alleged drug abuse. It is also revealed that his pregnant wife was hit and killed by a drunk driver, killing both her and the baby, while Jimmy was away playing one of his best games.
He is first seen with his girlfriend Cory, a stripper who Joe Hallenbeck was assigned to act as bodyguard for and approaches Joe and insults him, who in turn explains his history and drug abuse, he tries to punch Joe but Joe blocks it and shoves him down. An annoyed Jimmy takes Cory from the stage while she is performing. Joe plans to wait outside, where he is knocked out by a team of hitmen. Jimmy and Cory leave the bar in separate cars while Joe is left to dispatch one of the hitmen. When Cory is struck from behind and stops to confront the other driver, she is killed by the hitmen. Jimmy is fired upon and pinned down, but is saved by Joe.
At Cory's house, Jimmy and Joe find a taped phone conversation between Senator Calvin Baynard, who is leading a congressional investigation into gambling in sports, and Stallions owner Sheldon Marcone. When the tape is ruined in Joe's faulty car stereo, Jimmy realizes that Cory tried using the tape against Marcone to put Jimmy back on the team, prompting Marcone to send the hitmen. He is saved by Joe from a second car bomb, and manages to trick two hitmen into blowing themselves up. Unfortunately, the explosion destroys the remaining evidence.
Jimmy drives Joe home, where he meets Joe's abrasive daughter Darian. Later, he attempts to use illegal painkillers in Joe's bathroom before being caught by Joe giving him a towel and Joe punches him in the face and flushes the painkillers down the toilet and furiously kicks him out. As Jimmy leaves, Darian asks him to sign a football trading card. As he signs, she reveals that Joe had been a fan of his before he got busted, and ever since he was banned from the league, Joe has never watched another football game. He leaves her with the signed card, "To the daughter of the last Boy Scout."
The next day, he is met by Marcone's henchmen and is attacked and thrown off an overpass and onto a car, and survives, but passes out. He is then taken for interrogation to find out where Joe is, along with Joe's wife Sarah and Darian and traces the location to find Joe. He follows Marcone's henchmen to find Joe, but quickly got scared by Darian with her stuffed lion (when she was revealed to be hiding in Dix's car and followed him there and traced his information and ripped it out) and decides to tag along but not before showing him the .357 she stole from her dad's closet. He and Darian follow them in the woods where he orders Darian to stay in the car while he goes to save Joe, unfortunately, one of Marcone's bodyguards hold him at gunpoint and take him to where Joe is. Suddenly, Darian appears with her doll with Joe's .357 hidden behind it and Joe makes jokes while making the puppet talk (with him voicing him before shooting the henchman and escaping with both briefcases after running the bodyguards and Milo off the road. However, Milo survives and while Darian is left to wait for the police, he abducts her.
Heading to the stadium to rescue Darian, Joe and Jimmy are captured and escorted to Marcone's office. Jimmy's hand gets shot in the palm by Marcone and he then creates a diversion by tricking Marcone into thinking that the money is in a locker and he has the "key" (which was a shredder shotgun shell that was explosive) that's in his shorts and he throws it in the fireplace with it exploding in the process allowing him and Joe to fight their way free. Realizing Milo will attempt to shoot Baynard, Joe goes after him while sending Jimmy to warn the senator. Grabbing the game ball, Jimmy throws it at Baynard, knocking him down just as Milo starts shooting. Joe knocks Milo to the edge of the stadium light platform, where SWAT officers shoot him several times. Milo then falls into the moving rotor blades of a police helicopter. The briefcase of money is recovered and Marcone, having escaped with the rigged briefcase, is killed when he opens it at his estate. The next day, Joe and Sarah reconcile, and Joe and Jimmy decide to become partners.
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