Dante, a private investigator specializing in demon hunting, is hired as the bodyguard of Patty Lowell, a young orphan who is supposedly the heir to a large fortune. He protects her from numerous attempts on her life by demon assassins, which her greedy uncles have summoned, wanting to claim the family fortune for themselves. It turns out that Patty is not the real heiress, but a decoy. Dante saves the life of the original heiress when one of the uncles reveals himself as an archdemon and tries
Dante reluctantly accepts a mission from his old acquaintance, Lady, to investigate a motorcyclist known as "Red Eye", who she suspects is a demon. The investigation leads them to Vincent, a professional racer who wants revenge on Red Eye for an illegal race that got his brother killed. Lady gets Dante to challenge Vincent to a race, during which the latter is drawn into an illusion and nearly killed before Dante and Lady force him off the road. Red Eye, who turns out to be a cyclopean demon dis
The mayor of Dante's home city learns that his daughter, Angelina, is seeing a man named Bradley. Fearing that Bradley may be linked to a serial killer operating in the city, he hires Dante to investigate him. Dante determines that Bradley is a demon, but spares him after eliminating another demon responsible for the murders. Bradley says he knows about Dante and reveals that he too is half-human and half-demon. Dante learns that Bradley is a spy for the demon lord Belphegor, who is preparing to
While on a mission, Lady encounters a woman with lightning-based abilities, who she identifies as a demon. A local priest subsequently hires her to kill the woman, which ends in a fight to the death inside his church. Before the two can finish their fight, Dante arrives and introduces the woman as his old partner, Trish. He also explains that the priest, who turns out to be a fallen angel, set the women up to kill each other as a means of hiding his true nature and the murders he committed. The
Isaac, an insecure man who views Dante as a rival for the affections of a waitress named Cindy, follows him one night into a nightclub, only to get thrown out after Dante tricks him into entering the women's bathroom. When he tries to follow him again, Patty chases him off. Isaac eventually witnesses Dante eliminate a horde of demons posing as Mafia soldiers and breaks into his office for answers. He runs into Sid, who gives him a small bell to hold. Isaac is attacked by a demon, but Dante kills
Morison gets Dante a job protecting a team of treasure seekers looting a priceless collection of old vinyl records. Their leader, a businessman named Tim, plays one, attracting a siren that Dante chases off. Tim explains that the record was originally recorded by Elena Huston, a seemingly deceased rock singer whose career he managed before becoming a private collector. He correctly suspects that Elena is now looking for the record. In a series of flashbacks, Elena is shown as unintentionally sum
As a reward for finding him, a djinn offers a fisherman named Gary one wish. After turning down his first three, he grants the fourth: murdering his friend Klaus after the two have an argument. Gary is charged with murder and imprisoned, and his sister pays Dante with her ring so that he can rescue him. Dante gets himself arrested and assaults the prison warden, getting thrown into solitary as a result. When the guards start hunting the prisoners for sport, Dante realizes that they are demons an
Morison brings in a client named Earnest, who mistakes Dante for his missing friend, Anthony. Morison explains that, twenty years ago, a small fishing town was destroyed by a demon that could breathe fire and that Anthony and his mother were blamed for the disaster. To clear their names, Dante visits Earnest, eventually deducing that Sid has orchestrated the whole thing as a test of Dante's abilities. Dante admits that he did use the name Anthony as an alias when he was younger, but he is not Ea
Dante is hired to track down "King", a demon who feeds on the souls of gamblers when they lose. He subsequently receives an invitation to a private poker game aboard a cruise ship, assigning Lady to pose as the dealer. As each gambler loses, they all collapse and die until only Dante remains. He suddenly becomes hysterical and tries to attack Lady, forcing her to shoot him through the heart. The woman who originally hired him appears and reveals herself as King, a lilith who uses an enchanted po
The demon knight Baul, who was once Sparda's apprentice, is summoned by Sid to exact revenge on Dante as revenge for his father abandoning the demon realm. Modeus, Baul's brother and a former knight, is also summoned, and tries to get Baul to give up his vendetta while befriending Patty. Dante, who suspects that Baul desires his father's sword, Rebellion, challenges him to a duel, eventually killing Baul when he assumes his demon form. Modeus, bound by oath to avenge his brother, attacks Dante a
Nina, a sorceress and Patty's estranged mother, hires Dante to guard her pendant, since she no longer has the power to fight off the many demons who seek to claim it. Patty runs off after Dante insults her, while Simon, Nina's friend, burns his hand when he tries to steal the pendant from Dante's pocket. Nina, unwilling to put anyone else in danger, offers to pay Dante for the day if he returns the pendant. Later that evening, Simon ties her up in her hotel room and reveals himself to be Sid, ha