In NEVER DIE ALONE, "King" David (rap star DMX) is a drug dealer who returns to New York to make his peace with his former boss, Moon (Clifton Powell). David took Moon's drugs to California and started his own drug business. He offers to pay Moon whatever he asks to make up for it, but the transaction heats up and David is mortally wounded. Paul (David Arquette) finds David and drives him to the hospital. David asks Paul to find his son and tell him that "his old man was a warrior," and leaves Paul his car. In the car, Paul finds tapes hidden in a hollowed-out Bible – David's spoken-word diaries. Paul is a writer searching for a way to tell the story of the streets and he's fascinated with David's "nobility." As Paul listens to the tapes, we follow David's story from his arrival in L.A., where he cozies up with small-time starlet who helps him build his business. David meets a woman he really cares for because she is "beautiful, intelligent, and uncorrupted." Then he corrupts and destroys her, because caring for her made him feel weak. Abusing her made him feel "loved and appreciated."