The humor is not unlike the spaceman-on-the-wrong-planet stuff we saw in John Carpenter's Starman (1984) a few years earlier. detective coming around to the weird FBI agent. An example of Lloyd's weirdness is when Beck offers him an Alka-Seltzer and he tries to eat the tablet instead of dissolving in water, the joke is called back a few minutes later when he was given an aspirin, for the same reason, and he drops into the water expecting it to dissolve. He's an aloof guy, way more naive than you would expect of an agent, he literally takes everything at face value, and there's a reason for that. The alliance with Beck is an uneasy partnership, but Beck invites him home for dinner, and after drinking some beer Gallagher tells Beck and his wife that the killer he is tracking murdered his former partner, wife and daughter, and you can see the L.A.
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I could not help but think of Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks when I saw Kyle MacLachlan onscreen, though this predates his turn in the series by a few years. Moments later Miller arrives at a local record store and beats the clerk to death, making off with the money from the register and a sweet 80s boombox. From there Gallagher and Beck track down Miller, whom Gallagher says was an accomplice of DeVries, which further confuses Beck, there seems to be no correlation between the two men. Agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan, Blue Velvet) shows up and takes the lead on the investigation, when informed that DeVries is dying in the hospital Gallagher quickly heads there where he discovers the strange set of circumstances regarding DeVries and Miller. Beck is none to pleased when Seattle-based F.B.I. detective Thomas Beck (Michael Nouri, Flashdance) whom after speaking with neighbors of the normally mild-mannered DeVries' is more than a little confused as to why an ordinary citizen would one day just wake-up and set about robbing banks and murdering people.
Investigating the case is hardened L.A.P.D. That's right, this guy is some sort of of alien parasite that takes over a human host. DeVries leans over the man and opens his mouth, a slimy black, tentacled slug crawls out his mouth into Miller, while DeVries body drops to the floor lifeless, Miller wakes up, and walks out of the hospital. Miller (William Boyett, Blood Birthday) lays comatose with a bad heart. Surprisingly he wakes up and walks over to the bed next to his, where a man named Jonathan P.
The culprit is not expected to survive his injuries and is sent to the hospital where he is hooked up to life support.
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He takes off with a bag full of money in a sweet Ferrari, what follows is an an amped up car chase through the street of 80's Los Angeles where no one is safe, he even runs down a man in a wheelchair! The bank robber is finally stopped when his car plows through a blockade of cop cars and is gunned down in rain of bullets, smiling all through it, then his car blows up and he is knocked to the ground. Directed by Jack Sholder ( Alone in the Dark) and written by Jack Koulf ( The Boogens) 80's sci-fi action gem The Hidden (1987) opens with a real zinger, with static black and white security camera footage of Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey, Twin Peaks) robbing a Wells Fargo bank in L.A., blasting three security guards with shotgun before staring straight into the security camera and shooting it.
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