>>76990772>>76990772>>76990772>>76990772That's two arcs down, an intro arc, and an origins arc. Now, we can go one of two ways; a throwback arc where you modernize a classicly famous tale of Dick Tracey, or carry on with the rebooting by creating a storyline that is contemporary. Since, as stated, I know barely anything of Dick Tracy besides that one joke made by young Flanders in the Simpsons, we cannot modernize an old tale. Which means we have to try and make him contemporary. Notice how I didn't say current or hip. Those adjectives sound desperate.
Dick Tracy has a a video watch, right? So let's cheap out and make it a techno crime arc. And let's make it real adult, we need tits. So, we have a cyber blackmailer that is either hacking or installing cameras in famous people's homes and hotels in order to blackmail them. But that is paparazzi level bullshit. We need to amp it up. So, YOUTH FEMALE POP SINGER AND MOVIE STAR commits suicide after her nudes are put on the internet for having failed to comply with the blackmail. That's extreme, but throw in a line about her being a coke fiend, making her psychologically unstable. To boot, you can have the coke dealer working in parallel with DIck Tracey to catch the lackmailer, who has video of him dealing coke to DEAD YOUTH FEMALE SINGER AND MOVIE STAR. And if you really want to get tropey, create a one off character that knows all about these computer things and have him explain it in hackerspeakr and dumb downed versions/awful analogies of actual computer invasion tactics.
The best conclusion would be having the hacker hoisted on his own petard. So, Dick Tracey uses computers to track his camera purchases, illicit access to private homes, and security cameras to catch blackmailer while installing cameras.
And instead of engaging in a convoluted trail process, you could mention that gathering solid evidence against the blackmailer would be problematic. Then have coke dealer mcgee kill him.
