The Dead Pool

The final installment in the 'Dirty Harry' quintet beings in a San Francisco hotel room at night. Controversial British film director Peter Swan (Neeson) is watching a news report on the conviction and jailing of crime boss Lou Janero (Charnota). The assistant District Attorney praises Detective Inspector Harry Callahan (Eastwood) for his role in putting Janero behind bars. Swan adds the name Harry Callahan to a list of other 'celebrity' names.

The same night Harry is driving home, a suspected Janero death squad attempt to assassinate him on a quiet road. Their superior numbers and M16 machine guns are no match though for SFPD's finest.

Harry's superior looks at the incident in typical fiscal terms... "It cost's the department $13, 453.63 for an unmarked squad car!" Being that this is the third one he has wrecked this month, he's off the streets and into the Publicity Department! The only thing that can save him from this fate is if he accepts a new partner. The new partner is Al Quan (Kim) a Chinese-American and the department think it would be good for their image if Harry 's partner came from the ethnic minorities!

Down at a meat factory Peter Swan is shooting the new music video for drug addicted rock star Johnny Squares (Carrey). The addled rock star is unable to lip-sync with the music, much to the frustration of the director. After a row the rock star storms off to his trailer for a fix. While high on the couch someone sneaks into his trailer and force feeds him some lethal drugs... the rock star dies immediately.

Later we see the killer typing out a list on an old type writer. He pulls the list, it has the names of eight local celebrities, including Johnny Squares and Harry Callahan. He writes RIP by the rock star's name and mails the list to Samantha Walker (Clarkson) at the local TV station.

The TV reporter then runs the story on the news. Apparently director Peter Swan and several other people closely involved in the production of Hotel Satan, were playing a bizarre game which they called the 'Dead Pool'. According to her unnamed source, the object of the 'Dead Pool' was for each player to pick eight Bay Area celebrities who might die, presumably of natural causes, by a predetermined date. The winner of the game was to be the person's who's list contained the most dead celebrities. What is significant of course, is that Squares died under mysterious circumstances while on Swan's set and the dead rock star was on the director's list.

When more people start dying from Swan's list, Harry superiors want him to bring director in. But Callahan ain't buying the murdering director story and looks deeper into the case and discovers he's up against his most insane foe since the Scorpio killer.