David Kellen was the CEO of Ellsworth & Company, a powerful investment company.
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As a child, David was also entrepreneurial, selling seeds to earn money for a watch. He had saved enough money to buy the watch, but then lost that watch.
David Kellen then grew up and became a powerful CEO. He was also a client of a dating service run by Stephanie Miller called The Swan Club, which arranged dates for high earners. He got dozens of dates, most notably with a woman named Nikki Vansen, whose relationship with David lasted three months. At some point after, David broke up with Nikki and started to date Vanessa Colway, a teacher whose father, Shawn was in a $70,000 debt with a mobster named Jack Driscoll. When he had told Vanessa the story about losing the watch as a kid, she bought David a $70 replacement watch which remained precious to him, as he continued to wear that one instead of some of the more expensive ones he owned. David threatened Jack when Jack had discovered that David was taking over Sultan Foods and that Jack was the one who had Vanessa's father in debt. However, David and Vanessa's relationship lasted only two months.
David went to Stephanie again in order to find another woman to go on a date with, after a while David choses to go out with Andrea Stiles, an intelligent French model. While at the restaurant, Le Chat Blanc, David encounters Nikki, who makes a joke about David's tendencies to talk about his spirituality. David goes in the men's bathroom where Nikki joins him and they have a brief conversation and David leaves the bathroom.
After the date David and Andrea go into a taxi where David has the taxi drop him off at a street near where he lives, David kisses Andrea's cheek and Andrea leaves in the taxi. David calls Aston Skinner, his right-hand-man and Nikki's current boyfriend and tells Aston that he knows what he is doing and tells Aston that he is "a dead man". When David walked onto the street a car nearly hits him but he gets out of the way and tells the car to learn how to drive. David walks a bit more and sees Jack but, before he can react Jack shoots David twice in the chest, killing him. Jack took David's money from his wallet after killing him to make his death look like a robbery gone wrong.
Detectives Goren and Eames went into David's murder the next day when his body was found in order to identify the killer. Fearing he might be exposed as David's killer, Jack has a man named Michael Connelly pretend to be a witness of David's murder and has him frame Nikki for David's murder. However, this doesn't work after the detectives are suspicious of Michael credibility which results in the latter getting killed by Jack or one of his henchmen. The detectives, with the help of Vanessa arrest Jack for David's murder. (CI: "The Last Street in Manhattan")