When the killer is presented to us, he suggests his father Nick killed Vince Hardy in cold blood. This wasn't the case. It was never declared if his intention was to kill him. I believe it wasn't.
But Nick acts like it was in cold blood. Why?
*DieHardRRatedOrNoDieHard!*
Italian Catholic guilt. That's why he's fingering the cross the whole time he's in court.
shareExcellent casting. Resemblances are close enough to make the idea of Detillos and Hardys being cousins credible. Most cousins are not close enough to want to kill each other. Most Catholics would want to kill their own siblings. This is the first movie when I looked upon Sarah Jessica Parker as sexy.
shareIt wasn't intentional; it was manslaughter. Nick couldn't confess without going to jail and revealing his son's guilt in the murders. However, in covering it up, he framed and put an innocent man (well, technically, a small-time criminal) on death row & nearly executed, and he also got his nephew demoted, disgraced by the whole department, & almost set up to take the fall for the Three Rivers murders.
shareIt was an accidental shooting. But since he did it while trying to help his son get away, would that make it felony murder?
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