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Synopsis: Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. Ellis has a couple of problems. He keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Bob Clark
Production: TriStar Pictures
 
IMDB:
4.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
R
Year:
1990
94 min
289 Views


The launch came up out of

the water at high speed...

...sailed through all this debris here...

...and then, before final impact,

two victims were thrown clear.

Then when the launch finally

came to rest, two other gentlemen...

...one dressed as the Queen of Hearts

from Alice in Wonderland...

...and the other, probably dressed

as the Mad Hatter...

...jumped out of the boat and ran.

Then someone in the powerboat

on the water opened fire.

And over the fence went

the Queen of Hearts.

Oh, boy, the Queen of Hearts. Good.

Now we'll finally find out who

painted the roses red, won't we?

Now, at this point, all the men

in the powerboat came ashore.

Someone killed the rabbit right here,

where the body was found.

Then two men chased the fat man

dressed as the Queen of Hearts...

...but he got away.

Someone tormented the German

gentleman dressed as the Cheshire Cat.

He taunted him from here all the way

over to here, then shot him.

Here, where the body was found.

That's as detailed as I can be

with cursory examination.

It's reasonably accurate. I could

answer questions now if you want.

Do you want them

one at a time or all together?

- Oh, give them to me all at once.

- Okay. How do you know the gunfire...

...came from this alleged powerboat?

How do you know anybody escaped,

let alone two people?

How do you know one guy

was dressed as the Queen of Hearts?

How do you know he was overweight?

How do you know this guy was German?

How do you know

that he was tormented?

Finally, how do you know

any of this sh*t?

Physical evidence.

Look at all these hits around here

I've marked with the yellow pegs...

...and up on the doors.

- That could have come from the shore.

- No.

Why?

I pulled all kinds of.30 caliber

slugs and shells out of here.

You've gotta admit that's

weird ordnance for an amateur.

I figure the guy must have been a pro.

Look at the door.

Looks like the Dow Jones

Industrial Average.

No professional marksman is that

inaccurate, indicating the firing began...

...when the boat was bobbing in the

water, hence the erratic pattern of fire.

How do you know the guy

dressed as the Queen of Hearts was fat?

I found this scrap of costume

here on the fence...

...indicating whoever wore it got over

the fence. Look, you see this flower?

See? This flower. See?

It's a rose. See the rose?

It's a rose worn by the Queen of Hearts.

See? Everybody knows her eye.

See, there's her eye.

So if we project just how large this card

might have been on a costume...

...we can conclude that the man

who wore it was of great bulk.

That's why I figure there were two men.

The guy who wore this...

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Richard Christian Matheson

Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia and Zoopraxis. He is the author of the suspense novel Created By and Hollywood novella of magic realism The Ritual of Illusion, and was the editor of the commemorative book Stephen King's Emmy Winning BATTLEGROUND Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" and won two Emmys. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Three O'Clock High, Full Eclipse, It Takes Two, Loose Cannons Shifter, Midvale The Nature of Evil(co-written with his father Richard Matheson, Paradise, It Waits, Happy Face Killer, Voices of Midway, "Red Sleep", "Hooky", Dean Koontz's Soul Survivor as a 4-hour mini series, three Masters of Horror episodes, Stephen King's Big Driver, and 'NIGHTMARE CINEMA". He wrote for Amazing Stories, the miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes and adapted as four-hour miniseries HG Well's "THE TIME MACHINE", Roger Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber" and Whitley Strieber's "Majestic". Matheson also wrote twenty comedy and drama pilots for major studios and networks. He co-created, co-executive produced and co-wrote all thirteen episodes of the highly-rated HBO/Cinemax half-hour comedy series CHEMISTRY. He has been executive story consultant, supervising producer and executive producer for network television series. He is also the co-executive producer of the films Cub, It Waits, Paradise, Full Eclipse and Big Driver. more…

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