****SPOILERS**** After sitting on his behind and pushing pencils Inspt. James Martin, David Soul, gets his chance to work the streets with the legendary Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, who's partner Inspt. Steve Keller, Michael Douglas, has taken a long needed vacation. On his first case the murder robbery of a produce manager Martin show his true colors and prejudices handling those Hispanics workers there suspected of murdering him. It later comes out that the very blond and waspish looking James Martin is actually Hispanic himself the former Manny Martinez who changed his name and appearance by dying his hair blond. That in Martin not to be mistaken for one whom as it turns out, in dealing with his fellow Hispanics back in the barrio, developed a passionated and murderous hatred for his fellow Hispanics! This doesn't help in finding the killer Rafeal Diez, Al Martinez, of the produce manager with Martin screwing things up while trying to arrest him in working him over instead of reading him his rights! That not only has the ,wearing his Air Jordan's, Diez escape but cause the perusing Det. Let. Stone to fracture his ankle in the process of trying to catch him.
It becomes obvious that Inspt. Martin is a loose cannon and is taken off the case before he ends up killing somebody so he goes solo, without official permission, to get the job of catching elusive Diez on his very own. The final showdown accrues at a Catholic Church that the fugitive Diez's sister Juanita, Priscilla Garcia, attends. Pirscilla was told by phone by Martin, using the assumed name of Diez's crime partner Compos, he'll meet him there with the money the two ripped off the murdered produce manager!
****SPOILERS**** With no respect for the church, a place of God, both Martin & Diez shoot it out with Diez out of bullets and cornered like a rat getting the worst of the exchange. Just when Inspt. Martin was about to, by letting the unarmed Diez make a run for it, blow him away in pops or better yet hoops, on cultures, Det. Let.Stone and his partner Inspt. Keller to stop the carnage. Telling Martin that it's the wrong thing to do in gunning down the helpless Diez Let. Det. Stone finally get him to do the right thing in reading Diez his rights and peacefully, without any violence, arresting him!
P.S David Soul was so good in his role as a rouge member of the SFPD that he was soon given a major part in the upcoming Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry" movie, also filmed in San Francisco, "Magnum Force" playing the same kind of unhinged and shoot first and ask questions later policeman.
It becomes obvious that Inspt. Martin is a loose cannon and is taken off the case before he ends up killing somebody so he goes solo, without official permission, to get the job of catching elusive Diez on his very own. The final showdown accrues at a Catholic Church that the fugitive Diez's sister Juanita, Priscilla Garcia, attends. Pirscilla was told by phone by Martin, using the assumed name of Diez's crime partner Compos, he'll meet him there with the money the two ripped off the murdered produce manager!
****SPOILERS**** With no respect for the church, a place of God, both Martin & Diez shoot it out with Diez out of bullets and cornered like a rat getting the worst of the exchange. Just when Inspt. Martin was about to, by letting the unarmed Diez make a run for it, blow him away in pops or better yet hoops, on cultures, Det. Let.Stone and his partner Inspt. Keller to stop the carnage. Telling Martin that it's the wrong thing to do in gunning down the helpless Diez Let. Det. Stone finally get him to do the right thing in reading Diez his rights and peacefully, without any violence, arresting him!
P.S David Soul was so good in his role as a rouge member of the SFPD that he was soon given a major part in the upcoming Clint Eastwood "Dirty Harry" movie, also filmed in San Francisco, "Magnum Force" playing the same kind of unhinged and shoot first and ask questions later policeman.
