Don Johnson stars as homicide detective Jerry Beck, a very different law-enforcement type than his career-making role in television's MIAMI VICE.Director of Photography was Gerry Fisher. Johnson refused to work with Sellecca, so she was fired and paid off. Īccording to director Frankenheimer, Connie Sellecca was originally chosen for the part that went to Penelope Ann Miller. So my hair goes through these amazing transitions of being really tight and really wavy and sort of goofy-looking. I don’t know if you know a lot about perms, but if you do them, they relax after about two or three weeks. Because I kind of looked like a… It’s kind of odd. Jerry was a homicide cop in L.A., and he had curly hair, so I permed my hair, which was a, uh, very interesting choice. It was an actual cop, and he wrote the script. That was amazing, because it was a real-life character. "Jerome Beck" is listed in the film's closing credits as walk-on character Detective John, and also as the film's technical police advisor. William Forsythe as FBI Special Agent Arthur Kressler.Don Johnson as LASD Detective Jerry Beck.
Outside, Dixon and Beck befriend one another and go their separate ways.
When John runs out of bullets and springs from cover, Beck shoots him dead.Īt a press conference, Dixon informs that the FBI will be revising its position on white supremacy groups, and he credits Kressler with the success of the investigation owing to the evidence the agent gathered. Beck hurls John insults about his brother, and John reciprocates by open firing at him. John emerges from behind and, as he prepares to shoot Beck and Kressler, confesses that it was he who shot the cop to show his brother that he shared his contempt against the police and fidelity to white supremacy. As he lay dying, Burns reveals that he did not kill the Los Angeles cop. A gunfight ensues between him and Burns Beck shoots and fatally wounds him. Beck, though, discovers a concealed door that leads to a bunker. His search for Burns yields no results, which causes hostility between him and Kressler. Along with Kressler, he and Dixon head to a paramilitary training camp which is owned by the Aryan Nations, and ambush Gebhardt and the other members. In Colorado he meets Police Captain Dixon, who entrusts his team of black men on the force to track Burns. A phone call later that day informs him that he is now fit for duty. They recommend he undergo a psychiatric analysis after the session, though, Beck threatens the psychiatrist into letting him pass the evaluation. Back in Los Angeles, Beck's superiors have become frustrated over his performance on the force due in part to his alcoholism and uncouth behavior.
During a gunfight, Beck lights a matchbook and sets a car leaking gas on fire, causing Burns to escape with his men after an explosion. As Burns prepares to shoot him, Beck crashes his car into an oncoming police vehicle to escape. That night, Burns springs on Beck while driving his car and holds him at gunpoint. Burns, though, has been hiding near the church and casing the place. Beck is joined by FBI Agent Kressler and they head to Gebhardt's church, where Gebhardt reveals the entity's aim of cleansing America of its "racial impurities", and denies having seen Burns before. Beck leaves for Oklahoma to track down one of the people listed in the book, Reverend Gebhardt, who is the leader of the religious white supremacist organization Aryan Nations. Beck retrieves a cache of documents Burns dropped, which contains white supremacy propaganda, maps, and an address book. Beck and the chief head to a ranch alleged to be Burns' hideout, where Burns and his men attack the officers by firing automatic weapons they escape driving the Ford. A local police chief informs Beck of the crime and he immediately leaves for Arizona. In Arizona, Burns and his men rob a Mexican bar and kill its patrons. The man tells Beck that he last saw Burns driving a maroon Ford Ranch Wagon en route to Bakersfield. A man suddenly flees the house and Beck captures him after a chase on foot he turns out to be one of Burns' friend who is also on parole from committing armed robbery. He and a parole officer go to Burns' home only to find his college student brother, John, who claims he has not seen Burns and is only staying for the holidays. While examining police records he comes across a person of interest named Bobby Burns, who has recently been paroled from a four-year robbery sentence. The alcoholic, hard-driven LASD Detective Jerry Beck is tasked with the investigation. On Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, a dispatched LASD Sheriff is shot dead by an armed robber, who early on robbed a convenience store and also killed its African-American owner.
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