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Bones Darley is the overarching antagonist of the 2007 film Death Sentence.
He was portrayed by John Goodman, who also played a possessed Jonesy in Fallen, Ocious P. Potter in The Borrowers, Marshall in The Hangover, Chuck Long in Evan Almighty, Howard Stambler in 10 Cloverfield Lane, Big Dan Teague in O Brother, Where Art Thou, and Karl "Madman" Mundt from Barton Fink and voiced Layton T. Montgomery in The Bee Movie and George Wolfsbottom in Clifford's Really Big Movie.
Biography[]
The Darley Gang
Bones Darley had been the leader of the Darley Gang since its formation in the late 1970's. He kept the gang's operations to chop shops, protection rackets and weapons selling.
It wasn't until the 2000's that his son Billy Darley started getting the gang heavily involved in drugs. Bones led the gang from his office at his chop shop, Bones' Bodyshop while Billy and his friends ran there business on the streets.
Joe Darley
Bones did not have any part in the killing of the teenager Brendan Hume and was only annoyed by the police attention it brought. When Nick killed Bones' youngest son Joe Darley for his older son's murder, he did not seem to care and wanted to focus on business instead of revenge against Nick.
As the gang started attacking Nick and it started interfering with the gang's business Bones wanted Nick dead so he could get back to business. After the gang thought they had killed Nick Hume, things seemed to calm down until he escaped from the hospital he was in and went to visit Bones to get weapons. Nick bought guns from Bones although Bones knew he was the one who was trying to kill his son. He told Nick that he did not care if he killed Billy, although he was lying.
Later, after Nick began attacking the gang, Bones confronts Billy in a parking garage and tells him that Nick is trying to kill him. As Bones gets angrier at Billy, Billy shoots Bones and takes his car. At this point, Billy became the ruling leader of the Darley Gang although the gang ceased to exist after most of their members were killed by Nick later that night.
Personality and traits[]
Bones did not care about his sons much and may have abused them when they were children. He only seemed to care about making money. He had a temper and went off on Billy almost every time he talked to him. After Joe is killed, he doesn’t at all care and just wants Nick dead so they can go back to doing business in peace.
When Nick later purchases guns from Bones and makes it clear he’s going to kill Billy, Bones does not kill Nick on the spot, but rather leaves him to carry out his plans, declaring that Billy brought things on himself. However, he refuses to give his son's location up, and tells Nick that he will kill him on the spot if he dares to ask for Billy's location.
His temper led Billy to kill him because he realized that he did not care about getting revenge against Nick and only wanted him dead so he could get on with business.