Lt. Vincent D'Agosta
Background
Lt. Vincent D’Agosta is assigned to the Chicago Police Homicide department in Chicago, Illinois. His partner is Detective Hollingsworth. He is recently divorced and lost his dog Jerry in a custody decision. While trying to help a man that had locked his keys in the car, the man who had just robbed a liquor store, shot at D’Agosta at point blank range. For no logical reason, the bullet didn’t leave the chamber and D’Agosta now carries the bullet as a good luck charm.
During the events of The Relic (1997) played by Tom Sizemore
The cargo ship Santos Morales is found abandoned in Lake Michigan. Lt. Vincent D’Agosta and Detective Hollingsworth are assigned the case. They board the ship and find it covered in blood but with no crew. Hollingsworth believes it is a drug hit. When they open the bilge of the ship they find the rotting corpses of the crew with bodies and heads separated from each other. Frederick Ford is murdered at the Field Museum of Natural History and D’Agosta and Hollingsworth are sent to investigate. D’Agosta is introduced to Dr. Margo Green and then he and Hollingsworth walk to the crime scene. Martini the crime scene investigator tells D’Agosta Frederick’s brain was removed, and D’Agosta and Hollingsworth quickly connect it to the bodies found in the bilge of the Santos Morales. D’Agosta is introduced to Tom Parkinson by Dr. Ann Cuthbert, who is in charge of security at the Field Museum and he tells them who the deceased was. D’Agosta questions Green some more as he follows her from the animal preparation lab to Whitney’s office which was also vandalized. Green takes D’Agosta too see Perri Masai the restorative “genius” at the Field Museum. Perri tells D’Agosta the statue found in Whitney’s crate was of some sort of chimera creature. Dr. Zwiezic, the city coroner, tells D’Agosta Frederick’s skull is missing the pituitary gland, and when D’Agosta calls Hollingsworth if the bodies in the ship were missing their pituitary glands, he is told they in fact were. Officer Bailey shoots a homeless man in the basement of the museum who was covered in Frederick’s blood. Parkinson believes the case is closed however D’Agosta is not quite sure and is hesitant to open the museum up for the upcoming opening event for the Superstition exhibit. Parkinson angrily calls the Mayor who asks to speak to D’Agosta. The mayor tells D’Agosta how much his wife is looking forward to the Superstition gala event and decides for D’Agosta the event will open. Guests start to arrive at the museum and D’Agosta and Hollingsworth join K9 officer Bradley and Evans in order to search the museum. During their search the police dogs break free from Bradley and run down a tunnel. The dogs yelp out and the body of Castor is thrown at D’Agosta and his group. Bradley yells out and runs to where he thinks Pollux went. D’Agosta orders Hollingsworth to take Evans and tell Dr. Cuthbert to close down the museum. Bradley finds Pollux and is then promptly killed by the kothoga. D’Agosta finds the nest of the monster which is filled with heads and torsos. D’Agosta finds Pollux and takes him with him as he continues his search. D’Agosta and Pollux enter the CCTV room and using a walkie talkie, he tells Parkinson to hand the Mayor his walkie talkie. The Mayor starts to talk, however D’Agosta tells him to shut the fuck up and that Hollingsworth is in charge. D’Agosta then tells Hollingsworth to take the remaining people through the tunnels. D’Agosta finds Green and Dr. Albert Frock, however Pollux breaks free and runs off. The kothoga charges at them and they manage to shut the door in time. Green tells D’Agosta she thinks the kothoga started as something else and after eating the fungus on the leaves it changed. Frock tells Green and D’Agosta he is going to stay and he is then found and eaten by the kothoga. Green has D’Agosta lock herself into her lab where her computer finishes its analysis revealing the kothoga is Whitney. Before D’Agosta leaves he gives Green his lucky bullet. Green enters the storage area and systematically knocks over certain vials of liquid as she passes them. She then sets the storage and lab area on fire and jumps into a vat of water and closes it shut. The kothoga then burns to death in the fire. The fire department opens the fire doors and Hollingsworth finds D’Agosta who then finds Green in the vat. Green then gives D’Agosta back his lucky bullet.
