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| “ | SHUT UP! Listen, on my word, you live or die, baby. Okay? So, don't piss me off. | „ |
| ~ D.J to Sara while kidnapping her. |
Dennis James Wheeler, better known as D.J Wheeler, is the main antagonist of the 1998 made-for-TV crime-thriller film Black Cat Run.
He is a gangster who was betrayed by his boss who ratted out him and his two other partners in crime, resulting in them getting put in prison. Seeking vengeance against him, Wheeler stages a particularly gory jailbreak, killing several guards in the process. He then goes on a violent murder spree, killing numerous people, including his former boss, and taking Sara Jane Bronnel hostage in order to escape to Mexico.
He was portrayed by Peter Greene, who also played Zed in Pulp Fiction, Dorian Tyrell in The Mask, Deacon in Blue Streak and Tommy Bucks in Justified.
Biography[]
Before the events of the movie, D.J Wheeler was a drug dealer working for a crime lord and two other thugs. While he was on a big job in Oklahoma, his former boss informed on D.J and his two other partners in crime, so that he could take over his business. D.J and his crew were sent to prison, where they plot to seek revenge on the traitor.
Three years later, while they were still serving their prison sentence, D.J, his friends, and several other inmates were doing road work on a lonely Oklahoma highway. With a little help from a prison warden named Hobbs, D.J made a plan to escape. He first tells Hobbs to create something to blow the prison bus up. Then, one of his partners yells in pain. A prison guard walks up to see what happened, but ends up getting hit in the face by a shovel. As some of the inmates make a run for it, D.J and his men steal the guard's rifles and shotguns and begin killing the guards. As the guard in the bus attempts to call for backup, the bus explodes. D.J's thugs then carjack a station wagon and take off. Only one gaurd survived the shooting, and before the station wagon can leave the site, the guards shoots, hitting one of D.J's men in the shoulder point blank.
Sometime later, are pulled over in Texas by sheriff Ben Bronte, because the Cadilac's tags are expired. The Sheriff walks up and ask to see the driver's licence and registration. But before he could see it, D.J shoots the sheriff point blank, killing him. D.J's thugs kidnap the sheriff's daughter, Sara Jane Bronnel. As D.J shoots the tires of the Sheriff's car, a tow truck pulls up driven by Johnny Dale Grissom. A shocked Johnny begs the thugs to let Sara Jane go, to no avail. D.J then points the shotgun to Johnny's head, but before he can pull the trigger, Johnny stabs him in the leg, and then jumps off the highway from a cliff, leaving the criminals to flee the scene in a stolen car. This caused Sheriff Deputy Norm Babbet and other local cops to falsely believe that Johnny is the killer of the sherriff.
During their quest, one of D.J's men is wounded and wants to see a doctor. D.J refuses, saying that they can't slow down. When the wounded man pulls a shotgun on Wheeler, Wheeler gets infuriated and takes the shotgun away before pushing the man out of the car to his death and abandoning him. They then make a pit stop, where DJ murders a clerk and puts him in the stalls.
The attacker then reach a small town in New Mexico. Originally, the thugs were to escape into Mexico, but D.J first has to take care of some unfinished business with his former boss. D.J confronts the traitor at a bar. He then holds his former boss hostage and demands to know where the money from the big job three years ago was. The drugs and the money where stuffed inside a TV. Satisfied with his price, he kills his boss and his two other friends. He then shoots one of his men for holding them back. When he's revealed to be alive, Johnny runs him over with his car several times to death.
Wheeler's death.
Back on the road, D.J is confronted by Johnny yet again. He plays chicken with Johnny, and after a brief chase and fight, a semi truck (driven by a badly wounded Norm) lands on D.J. Surrounded by gasoline tanks ready to blow, Johnny lights the gasoline and runs off with Sara Jane. D.J is killed in the explosion.