Nick Walker was recruited into the R.I.P.D. in the afterlife and was assigned to a partner Roy Pulsipher. It turns out that five years ago Bobby became a Deado when a junkie shot him for taking cocaine and bribes. When Bobby is taken into the RIPD headquarters he and some other Deados' steal the gold that is needed to build the staff of Jericho by unleashing a sphere-like object that slows-down the officers but allows Bobby and the Deados' to be unaffected. Bobby kidnaps Nick's wife Julie and plans to use her as a human sacrifice using the Staff of Jericho where he reveals himself as a monstrous ghost. Nick kills him and avenges his own death.