The bloody graffiti and whether the heart-ripper is simply evil or "The Evil One" incarnate. Now cursing as freely as Stone, Durkin the public-school boy copies his taste for sweets and coffee. In a frankly amusing scene, the two detectives requisition enough guns to knock out a tank from the police armory while the stuffy quartermaster stares in shock. Although they are too slow to save victim number three, Durkin and Stone eventually realize that they prevented the removal of her heart, so they race to the police morgue just in time to catch a glimpse of their eight-foot tall opponent, who escapes by literally crashing The beast also leaves its bite on the shoulder of Michelle (Kim Cattrall), an old girlfriend and apparentlyĪnother Yank in England. It steals a shotgun from a police car and manages to keep Stone and Durkin at bay despite their fusillade. Than a human psychotic, since the plaster cast from the bite reveals teeth as long as most people's fingers.īesides its dental talent, the creature soon reveals a few other skills as well. Stone then reveals that their prey may be something more Tolerated by Stone, who teases him, Durkin begins to earn the more experienced man's respect when he recognizes the occult nature of the bloody graffiti smeared on the ceiling of victim number two, a male with the missing tell-tale organ.
#SPLIT SECOND (1992) SERIAL#
(Oddly, no one seems to question Stone's half-American accent or what he does as a detective between searches for the mysterious serial killer.) Barely As if in answer to the latter's complaint about Stone's habit of packing too many weapons, a refrigerator box arrives containing the victim's heart, with a nasty-lookingĭurkin, in jacket with school tie and glasses, contrasts wildy with the violent Stone, who seems to thrive on a diet of sweet coffee and donuts.
At theįrantically crowded police headquarters, Stone is introduced to his new partner, Dick Durkin (Neil Duncan) by an angry chief. There is also a note to Stone from the butcher smeared in blood on the bathroom mirror. Following his hunch to a striptease bar, Stone is a few seconds too late to save a young blonde from having her chest cavity exposed and her heart actually torn out.
Obsessed with the peculiar murder of his partner years ago, he carries not only the physical, but the psychic scars of an encounter with the killer Stone can Besides portraying London as a cross between Calcutta and the south Bronx, writer Gary Scott Thompson adds a dollop of humor by teaming a tough copĬlad in non-regulation black leather, Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) seems perennially on the verge of dismissal from the metropolitan police. In the grimly polluted future of SPLIT SECOND, an ill-matched pair of police detectives play a game of cat-and-mouse with a nonhuman killer.
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