Maniac Cop Page #3

Synopsis: Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York City by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Director(s): William Lustig
Production: Trans World Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
1988
85 min
377 Views


You know her.

Theresa Mallory.

Congratulations!

Its a well kept secret.

Not well enough according to you.

Where do I find?

She is on duty tonight.

How're you doing beautiful?

Well, it depends.

Would you like a lift someplace?

Oh, I'm pretty much at

roam right here.

Could I interest you

in something else?

Want to be a little

more specific?

You wouldn't be a cop?

You got it, mister. You asked

the jackpot question.

Now, why don't you run along home to

your wife and kids, like a good little boy?

Yeah, that's just what I was gonna do.

But I'll be thinking of you, baby.

Can't arrest you for that.

Ciao, baby.

Who is it?

Are you Malone?

Hey McCrae.

Don't get the wrong idea.

I'm on duty here.

Officer Mallory, 33rd Precinct.

Vice Squad

It couldn't have just been

a bullet proof vest.

I hit him in the head

atleast twice.

Just bring me a tab,

will you?

-Okay

-Thanks.

Look at the marks

on your throat.

I'm telling you Frank, his

hands were so big...

they felt like ice,

even through his gloves.

He wasn't breathing.

Well, we won't put

that in our report. Huh?

Why did you come looking for me?

You were Jack's only witness.

You had to disappear.

He...

He speak to you,

say anything?

No, no not a sound.

Last call,

want anything else?

Yeah, one more round. Doubles.

You're trying to get

me drunk.

No, I'm just gonna stash

you away

some place for few days

for safekeeping.

Why can't I go home?

Oh come on, If he knew where

you were assigned to work

it's sure he almost know

where you live.

How could he?

You must have told

somebody at work.

By a relationship?

Come on, Jack was delibrately set up.

Somebody found his wife to follow him.

Now, who did you tell?

I guess you

know Sally Noland?

Should I?

Sure, She's been on the force for 20 years.

She's like a den mother to all of us.

You know, she wears that leg brace.

-Oh yeah, she uses a cane. Sure.

-Yeah that's her.

Her father was a cop.

I know, she's

fixtures down headquarters.

She's been there so long,

you hardly notice her.

What is this?

The key to my apartment, 4E.

I want you to lock yourself in there.

I'll call before I come back, So you know its me.

I'll ring twice, hang up, ring once again.

Don't answer the phone

for anybody else.

Wait, I thought you were going

to keep me company.

I'll phone for a cab. I don't want

to get out to streets.

I will stop down at headquarters.

I have a feeling, Miss Noland

will be haunting the joint.

Mc Crae, What did

you do in your hands?

I cut myself shaving.

Sign me in. Will you?

Yes, Right.

You came in a very bad time.

The computer is down.

How do we ever please this

town without a computer, huh?

The requested information...

... You have to out this form and

I'll process it in the morning.

You...

...You have a pen?

Thanks.

We have a hard time writing this,

got little stitches in my...

You know, we really should

know each other,

were passing each other

in the halls for years.

-Do have one friend in common.

-Who is that?

Officer Mallory.

Teresa.

She had a close

call this evening.

Why? What happened?

She was working under cover vice.

Ran into a psycho,

Its a mess.

How is she?

She is okay.

Thank Jesus for that.

She is a fine girl, that one.

I knew you'd be relieved

if she is okay.

Yeah, we should...

We should all have us a beer together

sometime. Got to know each other.

Sure. We'll all be inseperable

How is that form?

I'll tell you the truth,

its not very important. Forget it.

Better get that computer fixed.

I'm glad we finally got say hello.

Don't do this, please.

I know it would be safe if you put the

girl away but this way is even better.

Now they think they got the

guilty man so that way...

...they gonna let you guard down

and you'll be free to get to the

mayor and the commissioner...

...and put an end to this.

I knew you had that anger

in you, Matt but...

But I thought it would be

the dealers and the junkies

and the human garbage

that you'd be cleaning the city of.

Not all them poor people

just minding their business.

What is it that got into you, Matt?

What's changed yourself?

I said I'd stick by

you and I will.

But you gotta stop

these killings.

Just only save it for those

who did wrong to you.

Who's out there?

Answer me!

Oh, guess i was

just jumping.

Matt?

Matt, where are you?

I need you, Matt.

You need me.

Come back ...

Hey you?

Oh, take it easy,

What you are doing?

I had to take a leak.

You always take a leak with

a gun in your hand?

Its a good way to

blow your balls off!

Oh.

You scared me.

You're wearing a uniform.

Yeah now everyones packing a gun

and I don't blame you

should get hazard pay

with this uniform.

Yeah.

You got yourself killed back there

those timbers are ready to freak.

This place is going to be demolished

in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, the whole city'is going to hell,

you can't take a pee anywhere anymore.

Here, more about Cordell

than you've time to read.

He was my hero.

Yes, Matt believed in an old saying:

Shoot first and ask questions later.

He was kind though. Gentle

enough if you got to know him.

Did you?

I hate to admit it, but he used to like

come in here and look in his clippings,

just like you're doing.

He gotta like

being a celebrity.

Real shame about what

happened to him.

It was a crime what

the politicians did to him.

Put him in Sing Sing with with all those

criminals he's been chasing all those years.

It was like handing

him a death sentence.

They say he violated

people's rights.

You see even killers

got rights, huh?

They murdered him,

those bastards at City Hall!

He had no kids, no wife.

I guess a one hundred percent cop like

him give no time for a personal life.

Here Clance thanks,

you may put this away.

You're wrong about that,

He had himself

a real nice girl.

I think he wanna go married if they

hadn't been for all that trouble.

-You're sure he was?

-Sure.

He brought her in one time

to show off for her.

She wasn't much

to look at, but nice.

And, of course a cop.

She must have

taken it pretty hard.

Worse than that.

Right after he was convicted,

the poor soul threw herself out of a

window trying to kill herself.

Terrible thing for a

Catholic girl to do.

She crippled herself.

Thanks Clance.

Yeah, they don't make cops

like him anymore.

He was one of the kind.

-He is still is.

-What was that?

Nothing. Forget it.

Oh, we're interrogating the suspect

for about half an hour.

Okay, Call me when you feel.

We know who the killer is.

-Did you tell the D.A?

-Yes, we tried you but he wouldn't believe us.

You won't either.

You ever hear about Detective Matt Cordell?

Yes, before my time but

you know, he's a legend.

Really trigger happy right?

He died in jail.

I suppose he didn't.

Suppose he's back.

Only now he kills innocent people.

But how can he get

out of prison alive?

We're gonna find out, tommorow

morning I've got an appointment with

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Larry Cohen

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films – often containing a police procedural element – during the 1970s and 1980s. He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' Masters of Horror TV series (2006); he directed the episode "Pick Me Up". more…

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