The encounter results in the death of Jack Mort and the fusing of the personalities of Odetta and Detta to form a third woman, who will thenceforth be called Susannah. Roland's decisions while dealing with Mort are crucial to later events in the series. Mort's murder of Jake led to Jake's appearance in The Gunslinger. Instead of revealing a new companion, the third door (labeled "The Pusher") instead reveals a new adversary for Roland: Jack Mort, a sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in injuring and killing random strangers - and the man responsible for the head trauma that created Odetta Holmes's alternate personality, the loss of Odetta/Detta's legs, and the death of Jake Chambers. Following a prophecy that such doors would provide companions for his quest to the Dark Tower, Roland brings Dean and Odetta - both reluctant - into Mid-World. Through another door, Roland encounters Odetta Holmes, a sophisticated and wealthy black woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder her alternate identity, Detta Walker, is a crude and cruel but street-wise woman. Through one door, Roland encounters Eddie Dean, a junkie transporting cocaine on an airplane for crime boss Enrico Balazar. On a beach, Roland encounters three magical doors to our world, hanging in mid-air. The Waste Lands The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series.
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