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Did they really bump him off? (SPOILERS)


Did they kill Falco in the end? I heard something that sounded like gunshots and then they dragged him away so I was not quite sure what they where doing. Where they bumping him off or where they just doing the same thing as they did with Steve?

Somebody here has been drinking and I'm sad to say it ain't me - Allan Francis Doyle

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he met the same fate as steve, but something tells me he gonna tell ppl about what jj does to ppl

"Death by tray it shall be!"

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In the closed captioning it says "punching sounds," so he probably ends up in the hospital like Steve.

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I would also assume they plant a few doobies on him, too. Facing a marijuana rap back then meant heavy jail time.

"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"

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Killing him too much of a risk.

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When this excellent movie first came out, Tony Curtis is shot and killed
by the cops on the street corner. A distinct gunshot is heard and this gunshot
continues at the end of the movie each time movie is shown. However, this gunshot
is removed from this movie after about 20 years (1980s).
So, the first 20 times that I saw this movie, he is shot. The next 20 times, he
is beaten by the cops with no gunshot.
To this day, I keep waiting for the gun to go off again but to no avail.

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