Blood Simple is a detailed plot introduction: On a rainy night, Abby and her lover Ray come to a motel for a tryst. Detective Vis, who has been tracking them, takes intimate photos of them and reports to Abby's husband and Ray's boss, Marty. The next morning, Marty sneaks into Ray's house, trying to abduct Abby, but instead gets his fingers broken. Marty finds detective Vis and pays him to kill the two lovers. That night, Vis sneaks into Ray's house and finds the handgun used by Abby. When Vis comes to Marty, showing him the photos of the two dead people, just as Marty is about to pay, Vis uses Abby's gun to kill Marty. Ray comes to a bar for money, sees the body of Marty and Abby's gun, thinking it was done by Abby. He wipes off the blood stains and moves away the body. Unknowingly, Marty isn't dead, and when Ray stops his car, Marty climbs out from the trunk, but in the end he is still buried alive by Ray.