Character Relationship Map: Sinners

Characters

• Smoke / Stack (played by Michael B. Jordan) — protagonist

  Identical twins and WWI veterans who use stolen mob money to open a juke joint. Smoke is pragmatic and skeptical of Hoodoo, while Stack is impulsive. Stack is bitten and turned by vampires, while Smok...

• Mary (played by Hailee Steinfeld) — protagonist

  Stack's former girlfriend, abandoned to protect her from white supremacists. She negotiates with the vampire Remmick, gets turned, and fatally bites Stack. Though shot by Smoke, she survives as a vamp...

• Remmick (played by Jack O'Connell) — supporting

  An Irish-immigrant vampire who leads a horde to the juke joint. He threatens the Chows' family to lure Sammie out, reveals the Klan's dawn attack, and orchestrates the mass turning of patrons. He is u...

• Annie (played by Wunmi Mosaku) — supporting

  Smoke's estranged wife and the joint's cook. She relies on Hoodoo practices and repels a turned Stack with garlic juice. After realizing the attackers are vampires, she teaches the survivors how to fi...

• Cornbread (played by Omar Benson Miller) — supporting

  A local field worker hired as the joint's bouncer. He is turned into a vampire by Remmick outside the club.

• Delta Slim (played by Delroy Lindo) — supporting

  A musician recruited by the twins to perform at the juke joint. He is killed during the violent vampire confrontation.

• Pearline (played by Jayme Lawson) — supporting

  A singer who performs at the juke joint's opening and develops a romantic interest in Sammie. She is turned by Remmick following Mary's flight.

• Jedidiah (played by Saul Williams) — supporting
• Bo Chow (played by Yao) — supporting

  Grace Chow's husband and fellow shopkeeper who supplies the juke joint. He is killed alongside Grace during the vampire battle.

• Hogwood (played by David Maldonado) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Remmick → Pearline (Power Thrall / Sire) — Pearline is converted into a vampire near the climax of the battle.

  After Mary flees, 'Remmick turns Pearline,' adding the singer to his horde.

• Remmick → Cornbread (Power Thrall / Sire) — Remmick forcibly recruits Cornbread into his undead horde.

  Outside the juke joint, Remmick turns Cornbread into a vampire.

• Mary → Remmick (Power Thrall / Sire) — Remmick controls Mary's new vampiric existence and uses her as bait and weapon against the juke joint.

  Mary goes outside to talk with Remmick 'only to be turned by him,' then acts with him and Stack to tempt the survivors.

• Annie → Cornbread (Professional Colleagues) — Annie and Cornbread are part of the same hired staff trying to make the new juke joint successful.

  Annie is employed as the joint's cook while Cornbread serves as the joint's bouncer.

• Smoke / Stack → Pearline (Professional Venue Host / Singer) — Pearline lends her voice to the inaugural celebrations, unaware that the music will draw supernatural predators.

  Pearline performs as a singer at the juke joint's opening night, booked for the twins' venue.

• Smoke / Stack → Delta Slim (Professional Employer / Performer) — Delta Slim is one of the headlining musicians paid to draw customers to the twins' venue.

  The twins 'recruit musician Delta Slim as a performer' for the juke joint.

• Smoke / Stack → Cornbread (Professional Employer / Bouncer) — Cornbread provides security for the new juke joint until Remmick turns him into a vampire.

  The twins hire 'field worker Cornbread as a bouncer' for the juke joint.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Delta Slim → Pearline (Social Fellow Performers) — They are stage partners for the historic evening before the vampires descend.

  Delta Slim and Pearline both perform at the juke joint's opening night at the same musical bill.

• Remmick → Delta Slim (Conflict Slayer) — Delta Slim becomes one of the human casualties in Remmick's assault.

  Delta Slim 'is killed during the violent vampire confrontation' launched by Remmick and his followers.

• Remmick → Bo Chow (Conflict Slayer) — Bo Chow loses his life in the brutal fight that Remmick's arrival unleashes.

  Bo Chow is killed during the vampire attack initiated by Remmick's demand to enter the joint with his horde.

• Annie → Mary (Unknown Mourning Adversary) — Mary's relationship to Annie is charged with guilt and grief; Annie's destruction breaks her will to harm the survivors.

  After the fight, 'Mary, devastated by Annie's death, flees' rather than continuing the attack.

• Annie → Remmick (Conflict Vampire Hunter / Predator) — Annie's Hoodoo knowledge turns into battlefield intelligence; she becomes the humans' greatest asset, then dies in the fight.

  Annie repels the turned Stack with garlic juice, realizes the attackers are vampires, and 'tells the survivors how to deter and kill them.'

• Smoke / Stack → Bo Chow (Alliance Business Vendor) — Bo Chow supplies the joint and becomes a victim of the vampire attack that devastates its community.

  The twins recruit 'local Chinese shopkeeper couple Grace and Bo Chow as suppliers' for the juke joint.

• Smoke / Stack → Hogwood (Conflict Deadly Foe) — Hogwood profits from the twins' dream while secretly organizing the white supremacist attack against them.

  Hogwood sells the twins the sawmill but is revealed as the Klan leader planning to attack the joint at dawn; Smoke later kills him and his men.

• Smoke / Stack → Remmick (Conflict Arch Enemy) — The vampire lord wants Sammie and the juke joint; Smoke leads the resistance that destroys Remmick and his horde.

  Smoke refuses Remmick entry to the juke joint; Remmick orchestrates the mass turning of patrons and is finally incinerated at sunrise by Smoke's effor...

Story Analysis

Twin brothers try to build a juke joint dream in 1932 Mississippi while a vampire lord and the Klan close in around them.

Plot Progression

1. Blood Money Buys a Dream — In 1932 Clarksdale, twin veterans Smoke and Stack return from Chicago with stolen mob money. They purchase a sawmill and assemble a staff of local people, including family and friends, to open a juke...
2. The Grand Opening of Blues and Ghosts — The opening night fills the joint with food, romance, and transcendent music that summons spirits from beyond time. The celebration is broken when Remmick and his vampire horde arrive at the door and...
3. The Serpent's Bargain — Mary negotiates with Remmick and is turned, then betrays Stack with a fatal bite. As Smoke tries to fight back, Cornbread is taken, Stack rises as a vampire, and Annie must begin revealing survival kn...
4. A Vigil at the Door — Annie teaches the survivors how to fight vampires while Remmick tries to bargain for the young musician who could summon his lost world. The vampires reveal the coming Klan attack at dawn, but the hum...
5. First Light, Last Stands — The juke joint erupts into a deadly vampire battle in which Annie, Bo Chow, and Delta Slim are killed. Dawn incinerates Remmick's horde, Smoke destroys Hogwood's Klan, and the mourners are left to fac...