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Nick and Eddie follow the squirrelly little guy to a bus station were they manage to not catch either the squirrelly little guy or the crazy twins. Nick goes back to the police station and gets in a fight with Annette O'Toole on the phone. Did I mention she's wearing a low cut strapless dress, and did I mention if I watch this movie again she'll be well on her way to being in my top three Hollywood actresses to help me through male menopause? What's that? I'm over sharing? Thank you for being comfortable enough to express your feelings with me.
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Luckily Eddie has managed to find the squirrelly little guy off camera, and Nick Nolte races over in his bombed out caddy and gets there just as the squirrelly little guy tries to give the money back to CEGIWB. CEGIWB being crazy kills the squirrelly little guy once he gets the money and tries to flee from the crime, in a city bus. Eddie and Nick give chase, but get run off the road and crash Nick's old bombed out Caddy through a big window in a Cadillac dealership. I think Nigel said it best in Spinal Tap when he pointed out, "there's a very fine line between clever and stupid." This is so like that, only minus the clever part.
Eddie and Nick lose the bad guys and have to go back to the police station where the screaming black police lieutenant goes extra heavy on the screaming and the black. If you are a fan of screaming black police lieutenants then you need to watch this movie just for this scene. It's a tour de force performance of pure 80's cop movie gibberish.
Nick has to take Eddie back to prison (insert your own sad panda face here). They stop and get a drink on the way over (and in a classic part in the movie Nick Nolte drinks from a flask in a bar) and after Eddie makes an idle comment Nick decides to go over and check out the Crazy Guy from Predator's girlfriend's apartment because otherwise this movie is going to be a real downer.
The guys get over to the apartment and what do you know? The bad guys are still hanging around. Eddie and Nick split up when the get in the apartment. Eddie ends up killing the crazy guy from Predator in a pretty badass way. Eddie shoots the guy once, but two bullet holes appear in the guy's chest. John Wayne never pulled off anything like that. You know what I'm forgiving Eddie for Daddy Daycare thanks to that little trick. Pluto Nash? Never forgive, never forget.
Nicky ends up chasing CEGIWB through some foggy alleys until the CEGIWB takes Eddie Murphy hostage. What's that? That makes no sense? Keep it to yourself ok? I've had just about all the blunt force trauma to my common sense I can take for one night.
Anyway CEGIWB (who is now wearing this sleeveless down vest) tells Nick to drop his gun. Well fool Nick once, shame on you; try to fool Nick twice and he will most def put a cap in your ass. Nick shoots CEGIWB, and CEGIWB is shocked, shocked and appalled.
I mean you think you know somebody, you build a relationship on a simple bedrock foundation, like not getting shot by someone, and then suddenly they stab you in the back, or in this case shoot you in the shoulder. CEGIWB gets pretty steamed and runs full tilt at Nick, which gives Nick the perfect excuse to shoot the guy about five more times in super slow mo, killing CEGIWB. Afterwards Nick gives Eddie his money back and then they drive off into the moonlight to take Eddie back to jail where he will wait until the sequel. The end.
So what did we learn today? If you want to keep your kid out of trouble, invest in sleeves at an early age. Public safety can best be served by arming large drunks, and did I mention Annette O'Toole looks really, really good in this movie? This is a great movie for any Saturday when you don't feel like scrubbing your toilet.