Paul Kersey is a middle-aged architect who lives in Manhattan with his wife, Joanna, and their adult daughter Carol Kersey Toby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the grocery store by three muggers. The trio invade the Kersey apartment by posing as deliverymen. Discovering that the women only have $7 on them, the goons severely beat Joanna and sexually assault Carol before fleeing. At the hospital, Joanna dies from her injuries. After her funeral, Paul has an encounter with a mugger, and fights back with a homemade weapon, causing the mugger to run away. Paul is left shaken and energized by the encounter.
A few days later, Paul's boss Henry Ives sends him to Tucson, Arizona to work with real estate developer Ames Jainchill, a client with a residential development project. Paul is eventually invited to dinner by Ames at his gun club. Ames is impressed with Paul's pistol marksmanship at the target range. Paul reveals he was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, when he served as a combat medic, and that he had been taught to handle firearms by his hunter father. But after the senior Kersey was mortally wounded by a second hunter who mistook Paul's father for a deer, Paul's mother made him swear never to use guns again. Paul helps Ames plan his residential housing development. After a couple of weeks, Ames drives Paul back to Tucson Airport and places a gift as a thank you for his work on the project, into Paul's checked luggage.
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