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Final Justice

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Final Justice	comment	Final Justice is a 1984 Italian-American action movie directed by Greydon Clark and starring Joe Don Baker.One dark and stormy night, Palermo and his brother Tony, two mob hitmen, are blundering around south Texas trying to get across the border to escape the heat from their last job in Dallas. They end up gratuitously shooting a motorist they crash into; then, needing wheels, they decide to try hotwiring a police car in front of a police station. Of course, they're discovered, but they manage to kill the sheriff of the town. His deputy sheriff, Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III, chases them all the way to and across the Mexican border, where he kills the younger mobster for trying to pull a gun. Palermo, outraged at his brother's death, swears vengeance on Geronimo, but refuses to rise to the challenge of a showdown; instead, Geronimo just knocks Palermo out and drags him back.Well, for some reason Geronimo is asked to escort Palermo back to Sicily as a publicity stunt. Of course, this is all part of an Evil Plan, as the mafia's already arranged to fake a malfunction on their flight that requires an emergency landing, bringing Geronimo and Palermo to Malta instead. There, operatives are ready to help Palermo get free. The Maltese police, led by Superindendent Mifsud, are adamant that Geronimo stay out of the case and let them handle it, as he is well out of his jurisdiction. But neither Geronimo nor Palermo are willing to just let it end like this...The rest of the movie is essentially repeating the same sequences over and over. Geromino is told not to go after Palermo by Superintendent Mifsud. Geronimo ignores him and attempts to chase Palermo down. Geronimo causes a major disturbance that usually involves a lengthy chase sequence (two of which are on speed boats). Geronimo is arrested. Geronimo is escorted from his prison cell to speak with Superindendent Mifsud. Return to Step 1.Rinse and repeat until Geronimo finally gets his man and the credits roll.Not to be confused with: the 1988 Hong Kong movie starring Stephen Chow and Danny Lee the 1997 Hong Kong movie produced by Johnnie To the 1998 made-for-TV movie by Tommy Lee Wallace the eighth novel of the Badge Of Honor series by W.E.B. GriffinFor the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode see here.
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Final Justice / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Final Justice / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Maria is unusually attractive for a police officer (especially compared to her hideous co-workers).
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Final Justice / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Final Justice / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Greydon Clark as Deputy Geronimo's sheriff with a case of Retirony.
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Final Justice / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Final Justice / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Palermo and Lamanna's fatal flaw: they keep acting like Geronimo is a harmless doofus when he's a dangerous Cowboy Cop who will stop at nothing to get revenge.
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Final Justice / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Final Justice / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Mifsud clearly wants Geronimo out of his hair and Palermo in jail, but is clearly too wimpy to do either effectively. It takes several instances of Geronimo going on a shooting rampage before he finally locks Geronimo in a cell for good, but then he only posts one guard and Maria simply pulls a gun on the cop to break Geronimo out.
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Final Justice / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Final Justice / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Accounts for at least two of Geronimo's failures.
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Final Justice / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Final Justice / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Geronimo carries an old-fashioned single-action gunnote needs to cock the hammer each time before firing. as his service pistol. Palermo and most of his men carry revolvers as well, but at least they are smart enough to carry modern double-action ones.
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Final Justice / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Final Justice / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Geronimo doesn't seem to bother replacing his luggage after it's blown up when Palermo escapes his custody, as once he arrives in Malta he wears the same Western-style suit for the rest of the movie's runtime, which is shown to take place over at least a few days. Lampshaded in the MST3K cut:
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Final Justice / int_385f5a1d	type	Achey Scars
Final Justice / int_385f5a1d	comment	Achey Scars: Geronimo always requests Maalox (or if that's not available, milk) after every meal as a result of a not-entirely-healed gunshot wound.
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Final Justice / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Final Justice / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: How Geronimo got booted out of Dallas is not elaborated on, but it apparently involved a shootout with a bunch of criminals, including a senator's brother.
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Final Justice / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Final Justice / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Literally! He pretty much just shoots suspects for the sake of it, and his backstory is that he got bumped to a piddly out-of-nowhere sherriff's office because he shot the brother of a senator. Most of the movie is him chasing down Palermo and causing numerous fatalities in the process. Oh, and he's wearing a ridiculous cowboy suit for the entire movie. Even so, Geronimo has the nerve to be offended when a friendly cab driver jokes about him knowing John Wayne.
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Final Justice / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Final Justice / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Some dialogue near the start of the film explains that Geronimo was involved in a shootout in Dallas, during which he killed a lot of people ("I bagged my limit that day, that's for sure!") including a senator's brother who was "doing dirty." Sounds like the climax of a typical cop movie, except that instead of riding off into the sunset as the big hero, Geronimo ended up Reassigned to Antarctica, and with an Achey Scar inside him that forces him to drink Maalox or milk after every meal to prevent it from hurting too much.
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Final Justice / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Final Justice / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In theory, Geronimo professes to believe in this, telling Maria that the law can sometimes be used to obstruct true justice, and having taken down a crime ring to the detriment of his own career. In practice, this means that he ignores due process and the orders of his superiors to run around shooting people in cold blood, without any remorse whatsoever.
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Final Justice / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Final Justice / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Geronimo subverts his catch phrase at the end by cutting it short and blasting the main villain in the head as he's distracted. Quoth Servo: "Our hero; a big, stinky cheater!"
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Final Justice / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Final Justice / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: According to Geronimo's sherrif, donuts are Geronimo's Trademark Favorite Food and the source of his weight problem.
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Final Justice / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Final Justice / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Geronimo, before the beginning of the story, was booted out of Dallas and reassigned to a hole-in-the-wall sheriff's office near the border.
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Final Justice / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Final Justice / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Pretty much every cop except for Geronimo and Maria is incompetent or corrupt in this film.
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Final Justice / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Final Justice / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: The TV prints put an obvious blur over the chest of the two strippers in the tavern (with the red-clothed dancer getting it most of the time).
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Final Justice / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Final Justice / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Geronimo. It's quite an experience to make you actually start to pity a Jerkass Cowboy Cop with a case of Plot Induced Stupidity.
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Final Justice / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Final Justice / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Geronimo is an actual descendant of the Geronimo, but his first and middle names are "Thomas Jefferson". Palermo is also the name of a city in Sicily.
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Final Justice / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Final Justice / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Geronimo is supposed to be a patsy to ensure Palermo's easy escape, but because he simply won't let the guy go, he ultimately undoes the entire mob operation in Malta.
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Final Justice / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
Final Justice / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: Palermo places pillows under the bed covers to fool Geronimo when Geronimo invades his bedroom in the mansion.
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Final Justice / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Final Justice / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: One erupts in Smugglers' Tavern after a patron pours beer over Geronimo's boots.
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Final Justice / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Final Justice / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Geronimo's planned role in breaking Palermo out, since he's clearly not qualified to escort a prisoner.
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Final Justice / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Final Justice / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: One of Geronimo's few redeeming qualities as he gets his Pet the Dog moments with kids, to the point where holding a child at gunpoint is one of the few things to get Geronimo to show some restraint in a gun fight.
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Final Justice / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Final Justice / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Palermo squanders numerous opportunities to kill Geronimo when he is captured, held up at gunpoint, or knocked out. His boss calls him out on this, but can't persuade him not to.
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Final Justice / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Final Justice / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Nobody Geronimo meets in Malta ever says his name correctly: It's "HAY-ronnie-mo" rather than "jurr-ONNA-mo." After a certain point he gives up on correcting people.
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Final Justice / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Final Justice / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: In the TV print, the last word in this phrase: "son of a bitch!"
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Final Justice / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Final Justice / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The film would like Geronimo to be Mixed Flavor rather than Type 2, but the guy really puts the "ugly" in "ugly American".
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Final Justice / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Final Justice / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: For some reason the movie goes out of its way to avoid showing the face of Wilson's lady friend.
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Final Justice / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Final Justice / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: A mob boss, even one wanted for crimes in his home country, wouldn't be deported until after standing trial and serving his sentence for the murder of a Texas sheriff and other crimes he'd committed on US soil. Par for the course for a Dirty Harry ripoff, but why in Sweet Jesus wasn't Geronimo deported immediately, especially after he's threatening to seriously maim your citizens? He'd be out of his jurisdiction in a different county, much less a different country — across the Atlantic ocean. The movie does show that the Maltese authorities are trying to get him off the island as quickly as possible (and the irregular flights out of Malta don't help), but he's largely allowed to roam free — to the point where his "jail cell" is a revolving door using the same stock footage of him being escorted out of the cell over and over again when by rights they should have left him in the cell until his flight arrived after the second incident at the latest. For that matter, the movie's entire premise falls somewhere between dubious and completely absurd. It's never really explained why a small-town Texas Sheriff is assigned, alone at that, to transport Palermo to Italy instead of, say, the FBI or U.S. Marshals. Especially considering that Geronimo has a personal grudge against Palermo and is already known as a Cowboy Cop with a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. It is revealed at the very end that Wilson and the Mob deliberately set Geronimo up to fail, but even by the standards of villain logic it's hard to buy such an elaborate ploy instead of, say, Wilson assigning his own henchmen to guard Palermo and release him upon reaching Malta.
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Final Justice / int_84e2baea	type	Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
Final Justice / int_84e2baea	comment	Arson Murder And Life Saving: Geronimo's modus operandi — he pretty much ignores any and all laws or safety and just opens fire on "bad guys" (his words), even shooting into crowds of unarmed civilians. At the same time he is trying to catch a dangerous psychopath, and he does try to help people when he can.
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Final Justice / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Final Justice / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Results in a case of Retirony for Geronimo's partner! While looking at the photo, Geronimo says "You're a lucky man, Bob." Not ten seconds later, the man is dead.
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Final Justice / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Final Justice / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast / Catchphrase: "You think you can take me? Go 'head on. It's your move!" Geronimo actually subverts his own line at the end. The end credits song acts as a Badass Boast as well.
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Final Justice / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Final Justice / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Don Lamanna as he chastises Palermo for abducting Geronimo but not killing him, leaving him in the mansion's basement. Guess what happens! Palermo tries to justify his decision by saying he wants to make Geronimo squirm, but this is still an idiotic move on his part.
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Final Justice / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Final Justice / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Palermo murders innocents for little to no reason and (in the uncut version of the film) forces himself on at least one woman. Geronimo kills suspects he could have just as easily arrested and has no problem firing wildly into a crowd in an attempt to shoot an enemy. This was apparently unintentional — we're supposed to think of Geronimo as pure good, but it just doesn't work.
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Final Justice / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
Final Justice / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Geronimo loves challenging the criminals he encounters to to quick-draw shootouts so much that he does it in situations where he could have easily arrested them instead. The most notable case is when he spots three of Palermo's men shortly after Palermo's escape in Malta. Rather then simply follow them to find Palermo's hideout or approach them with a drawn gun so he can arrest them and interrogate them for information, he challenges them to a gunfight and kills them all.
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Final Justice / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Final Justice / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The uncut version of the film includes a brutal rape sequence in which Palermo forces himself on the blonde stripper, who later turns on him and breaks Geronimo out.
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Final Justice / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Final Justice / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: Geronimo appears to die on a boat and Palermo leaves him for dead. As it turns out, he actually just washed up on shore and was nursed back to health by some locals.
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Final Justice / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Final Justice / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: So, so many. So at the beginning, Palermo and his brother got into an auto accident while trying to flee the U.S. They shoot the other driver to cover their escape but their own car is totaled so they need a new one. Fine, but why in the Hell did they think hot-wiring a police car in front of the police station was a good idea? Especially egregious considering we see only a few minutes later that they were already within jogging distance of the border! When Palermo is fleeing from Geronimo in Malta and disguises himself as a monk to escape, a woman comes to him and tries to confess her sins. He tries to dismiss her, instantly outing himself. Why not just go to the confessional with her, then just sit in the closed booth with her and pretend to listen until Geronimo leaves?
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Final Justice / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Final Justice / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Palermo tries to evade cop Joe Don by dressing as a priest. It might have worked, except a distraught old woman then begged him to hear her confession. He attempts to get it over with ("Sure... whatever you want") only to draw more attention to himself.
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Final Justice / int_97a252a6	type	PragmaticVillain
Final Justice / int_97a252a6	comment	Pragmatic Villain: Of the three principal villains, only Lamanna has a realistic grasp on the situation, working to get Geronimo arrested or expelled from the country, then when that doesn't work, urging Palermo to kill Geronimo outright rather than toying with him. Palermo, of course, completely ignores his advice.
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Final Justice / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Final Justice / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Geronimo shooting down Palermo's brother Tony provokes him to carry out a one-man vendetta against Geronimo, even after the taxi escape alone makes him a wanted murderer in Malta, fails to kill the sheriff, and implicates Palermo's previously untouchable capo, Don Lamanna. Lamanna offers to send in a hitman from Rome to handle the situation, but Palermo still pleads with him to be the one to do it instead, insisting "it's family" and giving his word. Even when he's got Geronimo at his mercy later on, Palermo locks him up before executing him just to make him suffer, allowing Geronimo to escape and ruin everything.
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Final Justice / int_9b57f005	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Final Justice / int_9b57f005	comment	Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Palermo holds Maria hostage at gunpoint and threatens Geronimo with "I'll blow her brains OUT!"
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Final Justice / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Final Justice / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Death by Cameo: And since Greydon Clark does play the sheriff, who exists only to get killed and give Geronimo a reason to hate Palermo...
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Final Justice / int_a03b1d9f	type	Failure Hero
Final Justice / int_a03b1d9f	comment	Failure Hero: Geronimo. It really undermines your movie's hero's effectiveness when you show him getting thrown into jail again, and again, and again. Not only that, but Geronimo essentially fails every task and objective given to him, except during the last seven minutes of the movie.
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Final Justice / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
Final Justice / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Geronimo's dealings with the Maltese police are in a class of their own.
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Final Justice / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: The TV print used for the MST3K episode not only uses Curse Cut Short and Pixellation to tone down the language and nudity, but it's also missing a rather brutal rape scene of the blonde dancer by Palermo. This turns into a bit of a plot hole as it explains why the dancer is both frightened of Palermo and willing to switch sides when Geronimo promises to keep her safe. The version available through Rifftrax kept the language and nudity from the theatrical print but still cuts the rape scene, likely due to the hosts not wanting to tell jokes during such a brutal event.
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Final Justice / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Final Justice / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Geronimo openly disdains the idea of legal protections for suspects and pretty much just shoots people for the sake of it. In fact, he never even tries to arrest anyone in the entire movie, challenging them all to gunfights instead. The only reason he arrests Palermo at the beginning of the film is because Palermo refused to draw.
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Final Justice / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: Geronimo is trapped in the Big Bad's dungeon, so naturally he draws on his Native American ancestry and appears to communicate telepathically with a woman he met earlier, who then comes and frees him.
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Final Justice / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In order to distract the officer who is guarding him, Geronimo asks if there really is a Maltese Falcon.
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Final Justice / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Geronimo is frighteningly quick to resort to violence when hunting down criminals and shows a reckless disregard for collateral damage.
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Final Justice / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Final Justice / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Maria, in an upgrade from nearly Neutral Female.
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Final Justice / int_dc47ceda	type	Hairpin Lockpick
Final Justice / int_dc47ceda	comment	Hairpin Lockpick: Maria uses a hairpin to pick the lock to the door on Don Lamanna's mansion, then says she has been doing this since childhood.
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Final Justice / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Final Justice / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	When Palermo is fleeing from Geronimo in Malta and disguises himself as a monk to escape, a woman comes to him and tries to confess her sins. He tries to dismiss her, instantly outing himself. Why not just go to the confessional with her, then just sit in the closed booth with her and pretend to listen until Geronimo leaves?
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Final Justice / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Final Justice / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Geronimo tries to find out where Palermo is by dunking the bartender's head in a fish tank.
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Final Justice / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Final Justice / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: What Geronimo lacks in grace, skill, intelligence, talent, physical fitness, looks and likability, he almost makes up for with his bull-stubborn determination to solve the case when both the Maltese and American law enforcement forbid him to do so. Almost.
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Final Justice / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Final Justice / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Invoked. "I gave him my word as an American police officer. I'm a Texas lawman."
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Final Justice / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Final Justice / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: The flight from America to Sicily gets rerouted to Malta. Which is farther south and (depending on where they were headed) farther east.
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Final Justice / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Final Justice / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Sheriff Geronimo makes Mitchell look like a big, cuddly Teddy Bear. He's sexist, a bully, occasionally rock stupid, and he looks like three hundred pounds of cottage cheese in an oilskin bag. But he's treated like the Only Sane Man by the film.
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Final Justice / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Final Justice / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: When Palermo draws attention to himself during his Bad Habits scene, what actually tips Geronimo off is that this "priest" is wearing expensive Italian leather shoes.
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Final Justice / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
Final Justice / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: One the patrons in the Smugglers' Tavern pours his beer over Geronimo's boot.
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Final Justice / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Final Justice / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Despite being billed as an expert hitman, Palermo's first response to any minor set back is to pull a gun and shoot somebody dead, which is what brought the heat on him to begin with.
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Final Justice / int_fcd46998	type	Red-Light District
Final Justice / int_fcd46998	comment	Red Light District: Geronimo asks Maria where the red light district in Valletta is, and she takes him to an area known as "the Cauldron" Here, a prostitute directs him into an ambush.
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