Come under attack by Apaches and have to choose whether or not to trust the captured bank robbers with their guns. The leader of the bank robbers, previously convicted of murder and facing a noose if he’s ever brought in, will…
… make some utterly boneheaded yet surprisingly effective distraction, allowing the Sheriff and the Good Guys to repel the attack and get away. But before they do, the Sheriff notices the leader of the bad guys, bleeding badly and close to death, beckoning him closer. The Sheriff approaches and the leader says …
“I’ve always hated your guts!”
The world-weary, hard-drinking, embittered veteran police officer always gets paired up with…
. . . The gung-ho rookie on his first day.
Either that, or an actor observing the cops as research for a role. But while on patrol . . . .
the actor, who is loathed by the cop as a dilettante and a lightweight, rises to the occasion in a crisis either by dumb luck or a surprising and previously-unrevealed skill, and wins the cop’s reluctant respect.
Any young female uniformed cop will be…
mercilessly harrassed by her sexist male co-workers. Of course, said female uniformed cope will eventually…
Have to go undercover in some role that depends on the fact that she happens to be movie-star gorgeous, such as a call-girl or bait for a serial rapist-killer. So she’ll be dressed in a slinky gown with a wire tucked down her cleavage and a clutch piece strapped to her thigh when…
She has an unexpected run-in with her parents, or mother of her fiance, and becomes uncomfortably self-conscious about the way she’s dressed, fidgeting, crossing her arms and trying to look away.
The hero has a face-off with the villain. The villain has a hostage in a headlock, and both men have their guns drawn. The hero…
will refuse to drop his gun like the villain demands, pointing out that if the villain shoots his hostage, there’ll be nothing to stop the hero from killing him. So it becomes a game of chicken.
[ul][]CHOOSE AN ADVENTURE:[]If the hostage is a stranger, then…If the hostage is the hero’s girlfriend or child, then…[/ul]
If the hostage is a stranger, then the hostage will either be a sweet little old white lady, or a pregnant woman of an ethnic minority. Either will clearly be terrified and will plead with the hostage-taker, who will shake her roughly and angrily shout at her to shut up, further terrifying her.
If the hostage is the hero’s girlfriend or child, then…
The hero will feign disinterest, hoping the villain will lose his focus. Then the hero will pull the planned distraction, causing the villain to lose attention, and shoot the villain fatally, without of course causing harm to the hostage.
It’s the fifteen minute mark in your favorite police procedural! The guy they just arrested…
Turns out to be the identical twin of the main suspect; and one who has an airtight alibi as he’s been in South Africa for the past three months and can account for his movements with any one of a number of reliable and independent witnesses.
Meanwhile, on Hong Kong Island, an officer of the Royal Hong Kong Police is…
…kidnapped along with his partner and killed in a ritualistic fashion by a Triad member while his partner watches. The partner will escape and later find out the killer has…
secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and friends in high places who will first hint that he’s in danger, and then order him off the case. But instead, he will…
go to the seamy underbelly of town to meet a beautiful prostitute/informant, who will point him to…
a pudgy crimelord in a glossy hotel bar, whose goons will get in his face but be silently brought to heel with a wave of the crimelord’s hand, after which the RHKP officer says…
“You know exactley why I’m here.”
To which the pudge overlord responds…
“Perhaps so, perhaps not. But indulge me. Why do you think you’re here?”
The officer smiles wearily, lights a cigarette and leans back in his overstuffed chair before saying…