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Hard Boiled

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Hard Boiled	comment	Hard Boiled (Lat Sau San Taam (è¾£æ‰‹ç¥žæŽ¢), or "Dangerous Detective") is a critically-acclaimed action film by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat in his slightly younger years. This 1992 action classic has aged very gracefully, and boasts action very few contemporary films can match up to. Has a sequel in the form of a game called Stranglehold, also produced by Woo.Hard Boiled is all about two cops — one undercover, another much-maligned for always, always playing the Bad Cop — working together to bring down a gunrunning ring (led by Anthony Wong). There is plenty of plot in between which establishes the characters of Tequila (the Bad Cop) and Alan (the undercover cop, played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai) nicely.But what you're here for are the action scenes, intricately choreographed and masterfully done by John Woo. What Shoot 'Em Up played for humor, Hard Boiled plays absolutely straight - and both movies end up totally awesome (for different reasons).
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Hard Boiled / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Hard Boiled / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: John Woo has a small role as Tequila's mentor, also the bartender in Tequila's favorite club.
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Hard Boiled / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Hard Boiled / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Averted; Tequila talks Tony out of falling into one of these after realizing he may have shot a fellow cop. It leads to a hilarious exchange.
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Hard Boiled / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
Hard Boiled / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Alan has to deal with this, both due to having to choose between Johnny Wong and his old triad boss, and also being an undercover cop as well.
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Hard Boiled / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Hard Boiled / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Mad Dog gets pissed after Johnny guns down a group of injured patients, solely because they were in the way of Tony - patients Mad Dog refused to shoot to get to Tony. He tries shooting Johnny, but it's blocked by his shotgun, and he runs dry - and Johnny unloads on him, point-blank.
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Hard Boiled / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Hard Boiled / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: When he's not shooting criminals in varying degrees of cold blood, Tequila is frankly a bit of a dork. His attempts to woo Teresa have a distinct "schoolboy and a princess" vibe to them.
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Hard Boiled / int_166f1ed6	type	Hardboiled Detective
Hard Boiled / int_166f1ed6	comment	Hard Boiled Detective: Tequila is John Woo's take on the character, and as such racks up a significantly higher bodycount than most of the type. He's even referred to as one by Johnny Wong during the climax.
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Hard Boiled / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Hard Boiled / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "So it's you. The hard-boiled cop."
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Hard Boiled / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Hard Boiled / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Johnny Wong has no regard for anyone but himself.
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Hard Boiled / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Hard Boiled / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Jun Kunimura has a "Special Guest Appearence" as the teahouse gunman.
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Hard Boiled / int_1bce3257	type	Kid Amid the Chaos
Hard Boiled / int_1bce3257	comment	Kid Amid the Chaos: A major plot point of the second half of the movie involves evacuating the babies of a hospital's maternity ward and getting them to safety once the patients that didn't get killed by the bad guys are evacuated. Teresa Chang, who played a major role in the evacuation of the patients, is placed in charge of getting the kids out of there with the help of the SDU team, with the bad guys trying to stop them every step of the way. Eventually, every one of the babies are evacuated, but there's just one more baby that she missed, which she charges Tequila himself with the task of saving.
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Hard Boiled / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Hard Boiled / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cigarette lighter that Inspector Wang gives Alan is used to save Foxy.
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Hard Boiled / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Hard Boiled / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: After Foxy's cover is blown and he is nearly beaten to death, another undercover agent Alan seemingly does Shoot the Shaggy Dog. It's actually a trick to convince the thugs that he has been killed by first slipping a metal lighter into his chest pocket while punching him in the gut and then using Improbable Aiming Skills to shoot exactly at it (breaking a few more ribs). It's cruel, but Foxy survives. but not for long.
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Hard Boiled / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Hard Boiled / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Zig-Zagged with Mad Dog; on one hand, he's very discerning about his targets and has a very strict set of standards. On the other hand, when he's doing his job, he's absolutely vicious.
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Hard Boiled / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Hard Boiled / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Played With, Johnny Wong claims that his men are at an advantage since the police mainly use .38 caliber revolvers, though the police do put up a good fight against him and his men. In fact Johnny Wong is killed by a single shot from a .38 during the climax.
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Hard Boiled / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Hard Boiled / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: While played relatively straight with everyone else, it is allegedly averted by Tequila who we are informed "never wastes a slug."
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Hard Boiled / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Hard Boiled / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Johnny Wong during the finale, as he kills both cops and hospital patients indiscriminately. Ironically, his Dragon, nicknamed Mad Dog, is instead a Noble Demon.
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Hard Boiled / int_2d6e2e78	type	Clifftop Caterwauling
Hard Boiled / int_2d6e2e78	comment	Clifftop Caterwauling: After the warehouse shootout, Alan, who has just had to gun down his boss, join Johnny Wong and take on fellow cop Tequila, lets loose with a scream to the heavens while aboard his yacht.
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Hard Boiled / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Hard Boiled / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Serves as an aid in decoding the cryptic messages left by Alan. Also used by several characters throughout the film, such as singing English lyrics or shouting angry words. This is Truth in Television, as Hong Kong's primary languages are Cantonese and English.
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Hard Boiled / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Hard Boiled / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Mad Dog, who has a strong sense of honor. He calls out Alan on the fact he's a mole for the police and is gunning for his boss. In the end, he attempts to kill Johnny Wong when he kills a group of civilians Mad Dog spared.
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Hard Boiled / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Hard Boiled / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: IN SPADES.
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Hard Boiled / int_31add7fe	type	Out of the Inferno
Hard Boiled / int_31add7fe	comment	Out of the Inferno: In the end, Johnny Wong walks out of his self-inflicted inferno, hauling Tony in tow.
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Hard Boiled / int_322d19f4	type	Abandoned Warehouse
Hard Boiled / int_322d19f4	comment	Abandoned Warehouse: The film has a big two-part shootout in one of these things. The first part has the bad guys led by Johnny Wong shooting up the place because they're taking over the gunrunning operation being run within from Uncle Hoi. The second part has Tequila rappelling in and blowing away the bad guys as only Chow Yun-fat can.
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Hard Boiled / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
Hard Boiled / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: The third act of the movie can be best described as "Die Hard in a Hospital."
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Hard Boiled / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Hard Boiled / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Uncle Hoi in the warehouse shootout. Also, Mad Dog.
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Hard Boiled / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Hard Boiled / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Tequila. Full stop.
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Hard Boiled / int_3dd3a9eb	type	Tone Shift
Hard Boiled / int_3dd3a9eb	comment	Tone Shift: While The Killer had a darker and more serious tone, Hard Boiled has a more fun and over the top tone.
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Hard Boiled / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Hard Boiled / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Tequila blows up several motorcycles with what appear to be explosive shells from his shotgun during the big warehouse shootout.
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Hard Boiled / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Hard Boiled / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Alan's fate. Did he die after shooting himself in the gut, during the final confrontation? The last scene with Alan shows him sailing away on his boat; it could be interpreted as his survival, or it could be Tequila's Imagine Spot, that with Alan's death, he is now symbolically "free". Unfortunately the movie doesn't explain beyond that point.
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Hard Boiled / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Hard Boiled / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The cops, naturally. And quite surprisingly, even The Dragon of Johnny Wong.
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Hard Boiled / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Hard Boiled / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: While at the hospital, Mad Dog uses a scalpel to kill Foxy. Just as we're treated to a close up shot of the scalpel being pressed against the informant's neck, we cut to a shot of his blood spraying across the window. At the end of the teahouse shootout, when Tequila dispatches his partner's killer, we only see his face sprayed with blood.
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Hard Boiled / int_4a9bc7ec	type	Dubtitle
Hard Boiled / int_4a9bc7ec	comment	Dubtitle: The Winstar and Dragon Dynasty home video releases. Reports vary whether the Criterion edition has real subtitles, but generally the consensus is no.
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Hard Boiled / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Hard Boiled / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Mad Dog does this to Johnny Wong to stop him killing innocent patients.
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Hard Boiled / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Hard Boiled / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Is this film ever.
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Hard Boiled / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Hard Boiled / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: The teahouse that served as the setpiece for the first big shootout of the film had been slated for demolition, and John Woo got permission to use the teahouse for the shootout in question.
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Hard Boiled / int_50c7749f	type	Dead Man's Trigger Finger
Hard Boiled / int_50c7749f	comment	Dead Man's Trigger Finger: Displayed by some of the dozens of mooks gunned down.
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Hard Boiled / int_51ba5dde	type	BannisterSlide
Hard Boiled / int_51ba5dde	comment	Bannister Slide: Tequila does a bannister slide of his own with Guns Akimbo in a classic shot from the first shootout.
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Hard Boiled / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
Hard Boiled / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: A book of Shakespeare with a gun in it is hidden within a Library. Alan walks into the library, gets the book and kills his target. Then he replaces the gun and book on the library shelf and walks out. This was apparently done so the hitman would never be armed if he was caught, but the police find the book because of the blood on it.
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Hard Boiled / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Hard Boiled / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Uncle Hoi behaves with a grandfatherly demeanor towards his men, but he's still the leader of a gun-smuggling ring, until Johnny Wong takes over.
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Hard Boiled / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Hard Boiled / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Mad Dog, who does most of the heavily lifting for Johnny Wong.
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Hard Boiled / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Hard Boiled / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: See the page quote, played straight with awesomeness.
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Hard Boiled / int_549634e7	type	SmokeAndFireFactory
Hard Boiled / int_549634e7	comment	Smoke and Fire Factory: The warehouse is a blatant example.
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Hard Boiled / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Hard Boiled / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Invoked. During the climax, Tequila has to evacuate the maternity ward. He goes to great lengths to make sure the babies get out alive. All of the babies in the hospital make it out okay.
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Hard Boiled / int_55501673	type	Crooks Are Better Armed
Hard Boiled / int_55501673	comment	Crooks Are Better Armed: Near the end of the movie, the cops surround the hospital used by Johnny Wong as a front for his gun smuggling operations. Naturally, the criminals break out their armaments and tear into the cops laying siege to the hospital.
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Hard Boiled / int_58717344	type	Mistakenly Attacked Mole
Hard Boiled / int_58717344	comment	Mistakenly Attacked Mole: Inspector Yuen tries to kill a high profile mob hitman, Alan, but runs out of bullets, and only later learns from his superiors that Alan is actually an undercover cop himself.
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Hard Boiled / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Hard Boiled / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Mad Dog, again.
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Hard Boiled / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Hard Boiled / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: when one of Johnny's men questions whether they can trust Alan he replies surprisingly reasonably, pointing out they can't be sure but it's a gamble they have to take;
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Hard Boiled / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Hard Boiled / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: A rare instance where it was invoked by the hostage. Alan pulled Johnny's gun to his stomach, which made Johnny shoot him. This gave Tequila the opportunity the gun down Johnny.
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Hard Boiled / int_60d73edb	type	Drink-Based Characterization
Hard Boiled / int_60d73edb	comment	Drink-Based Characterization: Tequila has his nickname because he prefers to drink Tequila Slammers, which are made by pouring equal parts tequila and soda into a shot glass, placing one's hand over the glass and then slamming it on top of the bar in order to mix it before drinking. It's violent and slapdash - which fits him perfectly, on top of tequila being the stereotypical order of gunslingers... also like Tequila.
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Hard Boiled / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Hard Boiled / int_617f0563	comment	When Mad Dog's fight with Tony takes them into an emergency ward full of innocent hospital patients, they both hold off on the fight long enough to shoo out the bystanders so they won't get hurt. Then Johnny comes in and shoots the patients anyway, triggering Mad Dog's short-lived Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Hard Boiled / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Hard Boiled / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Benny, Tequila's partner in the beginning, which drives Tequila's revenge plot. Later, the nameless cop Tony accidentally shoots.
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Hard Boiled / int_631399c1	type	Siding with the Suffering
Hard Boiled / int_631399c1	comment	Siding with the Suffering: Mad Dog tries to persuade Johnny to let the patients go, as his fight is with the police, but Johnny refuses. Mad Dog turns on his boss when he needlessly murders a group of patients while trying to kill Alan and gets killed for his trouble.
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Hard Boiled / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Hard Boiled / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Near the end of the hospital battle, two of the SDU team officers charged with getting the newborns safely out of the building use their kevlar vests to protect the babies. Immediately after securing the infants inside of the vests, they're riddled with bullets that they might otherwise have survived. Alan gives Tequila a chance to kill Johnny Wong by shooting both himself and Johnny through the gut, stunning Johnny long enough for Tequila to make a headshot.
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Hard Boiled / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Hard Boiled / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: Johnny Wong and his goons are part of this.
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Hard Boiled / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Hard Boiled / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: John Woo's finally gets to show his love for jazz, after Executive Meddling forced him to abort his attempts to show it in his earlier films.
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Hard Boiled / int_670b7e0e	type	I Know You're Watching Me
Hard Boiled / int_670b7e0e	comment	I Know You're Watching Me: Tequila and Alan raids Johnny Wong's armory of supplies, knowing full well that Johnny can see them. As a "screw you", Tequila then blasts one of Wong's surveillance cameras before leaving.
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Hard Boiled / int_673999b1	type	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
Hard Boiled / int_673999b1	comment	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Yeah, locking the heroes inside your arsenal is going to end well.
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Hard Boiled / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Hard Boiled / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Wong's arsenal hidden in a hospital is loaded with more guns than the Army.
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Hard Boiled / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Hard Boiled / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Strangely enough, Mad Dog. You'd expect someone with a name like that to be a senselessly violent Ax-Crazy maniac, but he's more of a Noble Demon with strong qualms about hurting innocent people.
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Hard Boiled / int_6beacd8c	type	Badass and Baby
Hard Boiled / int_6beacd8c	comment	Badass and Baby: One of the movie's most iconic moments is Tequila protecting a baby while blasting up bad guys during the finale of the hospital shootout.
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Hard Boiled / int_71bc0919	type	Burn Baby Burn
Hard Boiled / int_71bc0919	comment	Burn Baby Burn: The police do this with the ID papers of cops who die in the line of duty (such as Tequila's partner from the opening shootout and Alan at the end of the movie).
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Hard Boiled / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Hard Boiled / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Foxy's death could have been avoided altogether if Tequilla didn't have a brainfart and take him to a hospital owned by Johnny Wong. All the more jarring because everyone seems to treat it as a tragic happenstance, and the heroes are pretty sensible otherwise.
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Hard Boiled / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Hard Boiled / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The film's iconic poster (and most of it's DVD covers) depicts Tequila holding a baby while clad in SWAT gear, but for the entirety of the climatic shootout, right up to the baby scene, Tequila is in a casual long coat. The hero does don a set of SWAT armor halfway into the film, but that's during a warehouse raid with nary a baby in sight.
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Hard Boiled / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Hard Boiled / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Johnny Wong's right hand man, Mad Dog, who wants to let the hostages at the hospital go and eventually turns on Johnny when he kills some crippled patients just to get at Alan.
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Hard Boiled / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Hard Boiled / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Tequila holds a baby in one arm and sings a lullaby to him while gunning down incoming Mooks with his other arm.
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Hard Boiled / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Hard Boiled / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The opening teahouse scene.
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Hard Boiled / int_77c719f5	type	Heroic Bloodshed
Hard Boiled / int_77c719f5	comment	Heroic Bloodshed: A notable example of the genre. Name-dropped in the climax, as Tequila talks to the kid he's protecting.
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Hard Boiled / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Hard Boiled / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Alan slips a cigarette lighter into Foxy's pocket and shoots it, thus saving his life.
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Hard Boiled / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Hard Boiled / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: The baby Tequila was carrying before escaping the hospital urinated on his pant leg. Luckily it doused the fire which ignited on Tequila's pants.
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Hard Boiled / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Hard Boiled / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: At the end of the first teahouse shootout, Tequila guns down one of the Triads, who unbeknownst to him, was an undercover cop. Alan also unintentionally kills a cop in the hospital shootout, causing a brief Heroic BSoD.
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Hard Boiled / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Hard Boiled / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Johnny is driving Alan to the showdown with Uncle Hoi, he takes out a gun to give to Alan, and tells Alan to kill him if he's going to back out. Alan demurs, saying, "I have my own (gun)," which makes Johnny chuckle.
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Hard Boiled / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Hard Boiled / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Johnny Wong makes no secret of how he views human life to be completely meaningless he has no problem killing a group of innocent doctors and patients, something Mad Dog finds disgusting.
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Hard Boiled / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Hard Boiled / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: When Mad Dog's fight with Tony takes them into an emergency ward full of innocent hospital patients, they both hold off on the fight long enough to shoo out the bystanders so they won't get hurt. Then Johnny comes in and shoots the patients anyway, triggering Mad Dog's short-lived Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Hard Boiled / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Hard Boiled / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Discussed and wiggled around when Alan is in the process of selling out Uncle Hoi to Johnny Wong. He insists to Wong that he's not a traitor and will be loyal to Chiu until Chiu is dead, and then helps to make that the case. Wong is entirely okay with this and keeps Alan around, but Mad Dog, who personally hates double-crossers, is unimpressed with the treason and harbors a special hatred for Alan.
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Hard Boiled / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Hard Boiled / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: While undercover cops have some leeway to commit crimes in order to maintain their covers, major felonies are generally not permitted. No real undercover cop would ever be permitted to rack up a double-digit body count the way Alan does. The implication seems to be that Pang just flat-out doesn't care so long as bad guys get theirs. Which might explain why invokedTequila still has a job despite his MO being shooting first and asking questions never.
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Hard Boiled / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Hard Boiled / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Between Tequila and Alan at the warehouse. The latter's refusal to shoot Tequila is his first clue that he's actually an undercover cop. Also, his name is Tony.
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Hard Boiled / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Hard Boiled / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inspector Tequila and Alan, as well as Johnny Wong and Mad Dog.
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Hard Boiled / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Hard Boiled / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: We all know Tequila's partner is not gonna last long when he asks Tequila if he wants to see his son's photo.
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Hard Boiled / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
Hard Boiled / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: The raid on the warehouse is spearheaded by a motorcycle light cavalry squad.
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Hard Boiled / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Hard Boiled / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: When Tequila isn't gunning down hordes of bad guys, Guns Akimbo, he's playing clarinet at his local jazz bar.
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Hard Boiled / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Hard Boiled / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: This film is your classic story of a cop who shoots first and asks questions later, and an undercover cop who kills people for the mob in order to maintain his cover, up against a ruthless gun smuggler and his gang who have absolutely no qualms about murdering everyone who stands in their way.
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Hard Boiled / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Hard Boiled / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: Mad Dog lights his cigarette from a fire in Uncle Hoi's warehouse after he and the rest of Johnny's gang kill everyone there.
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Hard Boiled / int_88443a8a	type	Establishing Character Music
Hard Boiled / int_88443a8a	comment	Establishing Character Music: Both main characters in introduced with jazz. Tequila plays a light song with a band on his clarinet, while Alan is introduced with a funkier song blaring as he drives a sports car.
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Hard Boiled / int_8a0bc642	type	Unnecessary Combat Roll
Hard Boiled / int_8a0bc642	comment	Unnecessary Combat Roll: Tony is fond of these.
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Hard Boiled / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Hard Boiled / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: At one point during the raid, Mad Dog pulls two pins in a row from a pair of grenades, before tossing both into a cubicle containing a few unfortunate mooks.
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Hard Boiled / int_90dfa0d0	type	Noble Top Enforcer
Hard Boiled / int_90dfa0d0	comment	Noble Top Enforcer: Mad Dog is clearly a much better man than his boss Johnny Wong; he will not tolerate the harming or killing of innocents, a sentiment not shared by Johnny when trying to shoot past them to hit the heroes.....
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Hard Boiled / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Hard Boiled / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Johnny Wong can pretend to be affable at times, like when he praises Alan for killing Hoi. It does nothing to lessen how much of a monster he is.
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Hard Boiled / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Hard Boiled / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Tequila sometimes goes to the jazz club to talk about his troubles with the owner and have a drink.
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Hard Boiled / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Hard Boiled / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Tequila's shotgun obliterates entire hallways worth of mooks and rarely seems to need reloading.
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Hard Boiled / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Hard Boiled / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Johnny Wong.
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Hard Boiled / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Hard Boiled / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Johnny Wong mocks the police officers' .38-caliber service revolvers when telling his men to shoot them. In the end, however, he's killed with a .38 to the eye from a service revolver.
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Hard Boiled / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Hard Boiled / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: One of the guns that sees use in this movie is a single-shot Thompson/Center Contender, wielded by Mad Dog against Tequila and Tony.
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Hard Boiled / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Hard Boiled / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Another John Woo staple. Mad Dog loses or has an eye severely injured, and at one point suffers Tequila repeatedly punching it, apparently with no adverse effects. In the final shootout the characters take damage which would render normal people paralytic, instantly dead, or at least incapable of serious action, yet they never stop. Alan ends up getting a back full of buckshot after an assassin gets the drop on him with a shotgun. The worst this does for him is make him stumble twice, but he's soon running around shooting his attackers and keeping up with the uninjured Tequila. Though later in the scene it ends up catching up with him and he ends up in the hospital, but he's still upright and conscious. Not bad, considering that this sort of thing would normally kill a person in most action films, never mind real life.
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Hard Boiled / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Hard Boiled / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: Johnny Wong mocks the police's .38 special revolvers for this trope. Ironically Johnny is killed by Tequila at the end of the movie with a well placed shot to the eye using the very weapon Johnny mocked.
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Hard Boiled / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Hard Boiled / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Johnny Wong's death at the end of Tequila's gun. The climax of a series of Serial Escalation. Mad Dog has an eye injured at some point (apparently during the warehouse shootout) and gets an eye patch for the rest of the movie. Alan takes advantage of this injury later on by elbowing him there. Tony Leung Chiu-wai's eye was injured by explosion debris during the climax, with the shot of it happening remaining in the film.
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Hard Boiled / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Hard Boiled / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Superintendent Pang.
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Hard Boiled / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Hard Boiled / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: Foxy's death is similar, only he is not unconscious but rather, in a plaster cast from tip to toe, which only makes the murder (with a scalpel) crueller.
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Hard Boiled / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Hard Boiled / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Mad Dog.
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Hard Boiled / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Hard Boiled / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Tequila takes a long aim at a hole in a pipe stuffed with gunpowder, then drops his arm and shakes it loose...only to fire a moment later. He later does the same thing to Johnny.
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Hard Boiled / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Hard Boiled / int_b0cd3349	comment	The implication seems to be that Pang just flat-out doesn't care so long as bad guys get theirs. Which might explain why invokedTequila still has a job despite his MO being shooting first and asking questions never.
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Hard Boiled / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
Hard Boiled / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Tequila and Alan. Subverted as Alan survives, he just leaves Hong Kong for good. Maybe.
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Hard Boiled / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Hard Boiled / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Played straight in many scenes. During the teahouse gunfight, Tequila never reloads despite using the same two pistols for the entire sequence and fires something like 100 shots with them (though part of this is due to multiple uses of the Repeat Cut. However, this is averted on occasion, such as the warehouse gunfight and the hospital shootout where characters are seen reloading.
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Hard Boiled / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Hard Boiled / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: A nameless Triad thug shoots two SDU officers in the climactic hospital battle, killing one of them. As he goes to finish off the other, Teresa Chang snatches up a pistol and holds it on him. Possibly believing that she was merely a trapped civilian (she was wearing plainclothes) and wouldn't have the nerve to shoot him, the thug slapped her and called her a "fucking bitch!" She promptly shot him about five times in the torso.
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Hard Boiled / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Hard Boiled / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Near the end of the movie, Tequila places several rounds of gunpowder into a metal pipe, with a bullet covering the entrance. He fires a shot from at least seven feet away, one-handed, and hits the bullet, blowing the gunpowder in the pipe. This description in no way reflects how awesome and impossible that is. He later uses this skill to finally take out Johnny Wong with a Moe Greene Special. When Alan is ordered by Johnny to shoot the informant, Foxy, he is careful to shoot the cigarette lighter in Foxy's shirt pocket, minimizing the damage.
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Hard Boiled / int_be302f61	type	Destroy the Security Camera
Hard Boiled / int_be302f61	comment	Destroy the Security Camera: Right before breaking out of Johnny's weapons vault, the first thing Tequila Yuen did to intimidate Johnny is to blast the security camera in the vault with his shotgun. In a later scene, the infamous long take shootout against Johnny's men, Tequila shoots another security camera after shooting a mook, this time via silenced pistol.
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Hard Boiled / int_be5e459b	type	The Bartender
Hard Boiled / int_be5e459b	comment	The Bartender: John Woo plays one who gives Tequila advice. He mentions at one point that he also was a cop.
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Hard Boiled / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Hard Boiled / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Tequila does this at the climax. Interestingly, there was a 'screw up' with the pyrotechnics that caused a bigger explosion than planned, meaning that Chow Yun Fat was really running for his life.
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Hard Boiled / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Hard Boiled / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: One poor mook ends up eating bike during the first half of the big warehouse shootout. Ouch.
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Hard Boiled / int_c31adf6a	type	Gun Fu
Hard Boiled / int_c31adf6a	comment	Gun Fu: Word of God has described the gunfights as "gun ballet."
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Hard Boiled / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
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Hard Boiled / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: Tequila and Alan. This is a very, very straight example.
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Hard Boiled / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Alan and Mad Dog goes into a standoff that had numerous civilians stuck between them, they decide to put down their guns and let the innocents leave before they fight themselves. Then Johnny Wong rushed in with his goons, personally gunning down all the civilians to reach Alan.
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Hard Boiled / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: See Infernal Affairs after watching Hard Boiled or vice versa. Notice something upon viewing? Hear that shouting? Tequila carrying a baby during the climax is a reference to the famous story of the ancient Chinese general Zhao Yun saving the infant son of his lord Liu Bei during the Battle of Chang-Ban. Woo later got to tell the original story in Red Cliff. Using the shotgun in the rose box was an original idea in both this film and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Both were homages to The Killing and Dog Day Afternoon. The hit in the library was likely a tribute to the restaurant hit in The Godfather — the killer uses a gun hidden on the premises to shoot someone in the head. The Wild Bunch served as an inspiration in various ways, including the beat where Pike Bishop drinks an entire bottle of tequila â€” hence the lead character here named Tequila.
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Hard Boiled / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Played straight with the cops at the teahouse, but refreshingly averted with the SDU team at the hospital. Once our heroes are able to create enough of a disturbance inside for these guys to be able to break through, they're very effective.
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Hard Boiled / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: If The Killer (1989) took John Woo's trademark action tropes up to 11, then Hard Boiled took them Over 9000.
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Hard Boiled / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Despite his name, Mad Dog is notable for being a Noble Demon. He only kills other criminals and the police, but draws a clear line at murdering the innocent. When Johnny Wong guns down a horde of patients during the climax, Mad Dog even goes so far as to turn on his boss for crossing such a line.
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Hard Boiled / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Mad Dog said that he hates creeps who betray their bosses as much as cops. He said this to Alan, who's been revealed as an undercover cop during the climax. Ironically, he himself turns on his boss in the end, once he sees what kind of man Johnny is when he mows down a bunch of patients just because they're in the way.
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Hard Boiled / int_d63af362	comment	Dramatic Ammo Depletion: Early on, Inspector Yuen runs out of bullets just as he tries to shoot the mob hitman Alan. This proves to be very convenient later when he discovers that Alan has actually been an undercover cop all along. Mad Dog shoots Johnny in the side with what turns out to be his final bullet. Johnny then kills him.
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Hard Boiled / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Tony sends coded messages to the police by sending flowers to Teresa (Teresa Mo), a police secretary and Tequila's on-again, off-again girlfriend, with the message on the card. Before it's decoded, the message on the first card reads, "Are you somewhere feeling lonely/Or is someone loving you?", which is a lyric from Lionel Richie's "Hello". They're all from well-known love songs.
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Hard Boiled / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The SDU team, once they're able to get inside the hospital. Downplayed as they too suffer casualties of their own.
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Hard Boiled / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Some of Hoi's remaining henchmen attempt to kill Alan on his boat, but he and Tequila manage to fend them off.
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Hard Boiled / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Tequila and Alan, after spending most of the film quarreling and trying to determine which side the other is on, finally work together closely when Mad Dog takes a hospital hostage, blasting their way through bad guys like old comrades.
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Hard Boiled / int_e96faeb5	comment	Houseboat Hero: Alan lives on a yacht (which ends up the site of one of the film's gunfight set pieces). The film ends with him sailing away after his "death".
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Hard Boiled / int_ef3e4b4b	comment	Throw Down the Bomblet: Mad Dog. With Pin-Pulling Teeth, too. Tequila also makes use of a smoke grenade during his solo raid on the warehouse.
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Hard Boiled / int_f4a5b281	comment	Ceiling Cling: Mad Dog does this briefly, in order to get the drop on Alan and Tequila.
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Hard Boiled / int_f5dc896c	comment	Fire Alarm Distraction: When the villains, a gunrunning syndicate, is revealed to have hidden their weapons stash in the basement of a hospital and is ready to blow up the entire building, patients and all, to throw the police off their tracks, the police team who uncovered their plans managed to force an evacuation as one of the officers, Teresa, sets off the fire alarm on purpose by smashing it with her heels.
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Hard Boiled / int_fa068232	comment	Bodybag Trick: Tequila and Alan are able to enter a morgue by way of Tequila disguising himself as a doctor and wheeling in Alan (covered by a sheet) on a gurney.
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