1988 American crime comedy film directed by Martin Blester and starring Robert Deroni, Charles Grodin, Yafit Cotto, Joe Pantoriano, and John Ashton.
Jack is a bounty hunter, specializing in the bail agent to hunt down prisoners who absconded during bail, slipping the door to pick locks are all necessary skills, a pursuit of prisoners almost was headshot by the other side, it can be seen that the work risk factor is very high, but what makes him most intolerable is that his colleague Marvin halfway out to try to grab the fruits of victory, Jack will punch him and knock him unconscious to take the prisoner to collect the money.
The director saw that Jack was shrewd and capable, introduced him to a big business, that is, to find and bring Jonathan back, the reward was rich, Jack knew that this person was originally the accountant of the black boss Jimmy, because of the embezzlement of the boss 15 million US dollars in the run, the institute did not know his background to take this hot potato, but the bail of 450,000 was tempting, Jimmy would definitely send someone to kill him by any means, after bargaining, Jack asked for 100,000 yuan and promised to take it.
Jack used his police connections to check Jonathan's information after he was arrested, starting from the first phone call he made after he was arrested, going to Los Angeles to find his whereabouts, only to leave the police station when he was caught by FBI agent Aaron, telling Jack that they had been investigating Jimmy for six years, and now the most important thing is to take Jonathan to the court to testify against Jimmy, hoping that Jack will not be nosy and misunderstand their big business.
It turned out that both black and white were eagerly looking for Jonathan, Jack obeyed and then took Ion's ID, pasted his own photo and came to New York, where he met two of Jimmy's men, told Jack that their boss was willing to bid a million to cooperate with him, and left him contact information for him to consider.
Jack continued to hunt alone, found the phone address to install a bugging device, and then called the phone as the FBI to inquire about Jonathan's information, and when he hung up the phone and then called Jonathan, he easily overheard the phone of the target person and then checked the address, pried the door in at night, and caught the black and white wanted criminals.
Jack rushed to the airport with Jonathan, 100,000 yuan seemed to be about to arrive, Jonathan learned that Jack did not belong to any side of the police and the gang, he told Jack that he had a fear of flying, obviously Jack ignored it, called before boarding the plane to tell the director to fly to Los Angeles immediately, midnight can arrive, the director learned that Jack is so efficient and excited, do not know that his phone has been monitored by the FBI, his men ran out to tell jack the whereabouts of the gang, the two sides gathered at the airport to wait.
As the plane was about to take off, Jonathan muttered nervously and misbehaving, and the captain ordered Jack to respect the prisoner's rights to get off the plane and switch to other means of transportation, but the two of them switched to the train, and the people waiting on both sides of the Los Angeles airport pounced.
The director did not wait for Jack to panic in his heart, and then contacted Marvin to find Jack to catch Jonathan back, anyway, whoever caught him could earn the huge bail, but he only bid Marvin twenty-five thousand, and Marvin unknowingly agreed.
Marvin remembers Jack's credit card number, which he reported by phone in Jack's name, and learns that Jack's last purchase was at the New York train station, and sets off.
Jonathan also said that he had claustrophobia and he could bid two hundred thousand, as long as he was released, Jack locked him in his seat, saying that he would not accept bribes in his life, speaking of the past, Jack was once a policeman, it was not willing to join the gang to lose his job and did this business, Jonathan said that he stole the black boss's money and donated it to charity, once in prison will definitely be killed, he wanted to win Jack's sympathy, but Jack believed that he was a criminal.
Marvin boards the train to find Jack's carriage and tries to sneak away Jonathan while Jack is asleep, but Jack knocks Marvin unconscious again, shows his PAPERS, and asks the conductor to call the police to arrest Marvin at the next stop.
Aaron learns from Marvin that Jack is on the train and leads the team to the station to wait, but the two of them get off the train three stops early and pounce again. Jack called the director and asked them to take the bus back, so that the black and white lanes would get the information again and wait in Chicago, the only way to the bus.
Jack's credit card was written off and it took all the cash to buy a ticket, and he hadn't seen his ex-wife and daughter in nine years because his ex-wife was married to a bad sheriff. The two arrive at the Chicago Bus Station surrounded by police, black and white began a gunfight, Jack took advantage of the chaos and Jonathan to drive away in a police car and escape again.
From the car to learn that the FBI eavesdropped on the director's phone, they abandoned the car and fled, Jack insisted on going to his ex-wife who lived here to borrow money, after some embarrassment, the ex-wife took the only cash and car keys for him, and the grown daughter ran out to earn money to her father, and the father and daughter still had a deep love affair.
After leaving Chicago, Jack told the director that his phone had been tapped, and he went to the restaurant to answer the phone and asked for remittances of five hundred to Texas, he was going to drive back, the director instructed his men to send money and let Marvin rush over to rob people, and the black boss's men naturally knew about it.
On the way Jonathan talked to Jack, Jack had approached the Chicago drug lord when he was undercover, and just when others were arrested for drug lords, the police searched for heroin from his home, and the drug lord gave him two choices, one was to take money like other policemen and the other was to go to jail for thirty years, Jack did not ask for black money, but chose to punish criminals alone. Jonathan told Jack that he knew all of Jimmy's transactions and had intended to make a copy of his illegal transaction records, but he was caught before he could be caught.
The black boss's men came to Texas to kidnap the two, just when Marvin arrived, knocked out the bad guys, had to take the two people who were chained together to go together, encountered a helicopter chase along the way, Marvin learned of Jack's bounty number of angry yelling, Jack used a pistol to explode the helicopter, knocked Marvin unconscious again, jumped into the river to find Cuong, this time jonathan saved Jack's life.
The two hiked on the road and hitchhike to a village, Jonathan tried to drive away from the plane to escape, Jack realized that he was being tricked, dragged him down and grabbed the truck to leave. The two cooperated to cheat the bar money to buy some food, and then the train ran away, and the bar owner saw that he was deceived and immediately called the police.
The two got out of the car early to let Ehron pounce, Jack stole a car to go to the airport, a large number of police cars chased, although rushed into the wasteland to get rid of the police car, but the car has been scrapped, Marvin rushed to stun Jack at this time to avenge, and took Jonathan, who was also knocked unconscious, to the airport, because he said that he had a fear of airplanes.
Jack is arrested by Ion, who calls the director to learn that Marvin did not go to him for money, guessing that Marvin is going to trade Jonathan with the black boss, he uses the phone call given to him by the black boss to tell them that they have the disk that Jonathan made recording the illegal transaction, and asks Jimmy to take Jonathan to the airport within two hours to exchange, otherwise it will be made public.
Here Jack said that he cooperated with Aaron to help him catch Jimmy, on the condition that he first take Jonathan to get a bounty, prepared an empty disk, as long as Jimmy got it, he accused him of trying to destroy government evidence to obstruct justice, if he brought a gun, he would be sued for murder, anyway, as long as he caught people, there would be a reason for conviction, or Jack fishing law enforcement will be more.
Marvin and Jimmy's men approached and asked for two million substitutions, not wanting to be beaten because the photos he took had already revealed the address. Jimmy catches Jonathan and arranges for his men to kill Jack and Jonathan when he gets the disk.
At the scene of the transaction, Marvin, who was trying to fight back home, saw Jack, took the gun and rushed over to rob people, Jimmy took advantage of the chaos to snatch the disk, Jack shouted to signal the police to move, so Jimmy was caught, it turned out that he was the big drug lord that Jack wanted to arrest undercover.
Jack took Jonathan back to Los Angeles by plane, called the director to tell them they were back, but he was going to let him go, Jonathan was surprised, and gave Jack the three hundred thousand cash he had with him, saying that it was not a bribe but a gift, and the two happily agreed to see each other in the next life.