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Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. Angua works with the talking dog Gaspode, and also forms a romantic connection with Carrot, who loses his virginity to her but handles the discovery that she is a werewolf poorly.
Any possessor of the gonne seems to become obsessed with the device. After d'Eath reveals his plan to Dr. Cruces, head of the Assassin's Guild, Cruces murders him and takes up the plan himself. Vimes and Carrot confront and disarm Cruces, and Carrot helps Vimes resist the gonne's allure. Cruces gives Carrot the evidence that he is the royal heir, upon which Carrot kills Cruces with his sword and has both the evidence and the dismantled gonne buried with Cuddy.
Angua gets shot 3 times by Cruces; as a werewolf can only be killed with a silver weapon, Angua is revived upon the moon's rising. Vimes and Ramkin are married. Recent events have raised the Night Watch's profile, bringing a slew of new recruits. And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets.
It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married. And since this is Ankh-Morpork , noon promises to be not just high, but stinking. Captain Samuel Vimes is forced by Lord Vetinari to take on a group of new recruits for the purposes of ensuring diversity - a dwarf called Cuddy , a werewolf called Angua and a troll called Detritus.
Angua becomes involved in a romantic relationship with Corporal Carrot Ironfoundersson , but he does not react well to discovering that she is a werewolf. There has recently been a string of mysterious murders in the city that appear to be connected.
Vetinari bans Vimes from investigating the murders in a successful attempt to provoke him into doing so. The murders have been committed by young a assassin called Edward d'Eath. After researching the city's history and discovering that Carrot is the rightful heir of the throne of Ankh Morpork , he developed an obsessive desire to overthrow Vetinari and restore the monarchy. He committed the murders with the " gonne ", the Disc's first and only hand-held firearm, a dangerous invention of Leonard of Quirm that d'Eath stole from the Assassins' Guild.
The gonne appears to have a demonic power that tempts people into using it. When d'Eath explains his plan to Dr.
Cruces , the head of the Assassins' Guild, Cruces kills him and decides to carry out the plan himself. Vimes and Carrot then confront Cruces, who reveals to Carrot that he is the rightful ruler of the city.
Vimes seizes the gonne from Cruces and finds himself tempted to use the weapon, but Carrot stops him and disables it. Carrot is immune to being tempted by the gonne, which he believes is because he was raised as a dwarf and trained not to listen to tools. He kills Cruces with his sword and buries the remains of the gonne in Cuddy's coffin. Because a werewolf can only be killed with silver, Angua wakes up and recovers the following night.
Vimes holds his wedding with Sybil Ramkin. Vetinari fears that Carrot will use his status as the rightful ruler of Ankh Morpork to blackmail him.
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When he arrives, Carrot instead presents the Patrician with a plan to reform policing in the city by merging the Day Watch and the Night Watch into a new, modern and effective police force, with more funding and better working conditions.