Bartine "Bart" Curlish is a character in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Bart is a self-proclaimed holistic assassin who was a part of Project Blackwing before she escaped. Like Dirk, she believes all things are connected and that she is brought to the people that she is meant to kill. Isolated from society, she has very little knowledge of how the modern world works.
Biography
While being held captive by the CIA, Bart heard about other people like her but never got to meet any of them. Following her escape, she had a dream of Dirk Gently and came to believe that it was her purpose in life to find and kill him.
As a holistic assassin, she has psychic hunches that tell her who she has to kill. These hunches lead her to Ken, a electrician who does illegal work for money. Kidnapping him, she continues her search. (read more)
When her car breaks down, a motorcyclist offers to fix it though Bart informs Ken that she will have to kill him afterwards. When the car is repaired, the man reveals his intentions to kill Bart and Ken and steal the car. He tries to shoot Bart but all the shots miss and she is able to easily dispose of him. (read more)
The rest of the man's gang soon locate Bart and Ken, kidnapping them and tying them up. However, when they attempt to murder Ken, Bart escapes and defeats the entire gang effortlessly. (read more)
Personality
Bart has a terrifying but cute personality. Not having any friends before meeting Ken, she is unaware of how the world works. For example, she doesn't know how cars, radios, and hotels run.
Victims
- Several Men of the Machine (stabbed)
- Two unnamed store robbers (shot)
- Jake and his motorcycle gang (blunt force trauma, shot, stabbed)
- Gifford
Behind the scenes
Appearances
Notes
- All the people that she has killed have recently committed horrible crimes prior to their deaths