Stick Your Fingers Inside Our Hands and Pull Them Out Again Long Kiss Goodnight

"What'south forgotten is non always gone."

The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 spy/comedy/action film directed past Renny Harlin and written past Shane Black.

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) knows nothing about her by. She had been found 8 years ago on a beach, pregnant and injured, but remembers nothing of her old life. Since and then she has given birth to her daughter, Caitlin (Yvonne Zima), and met a very nice man. For a while she hired a few private investigators, including Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson), only they never came upwardly with anything. She has been living a peaceful, idyllic life working equally a schoolteacher and raising her girl, and has pretty much decided to requite her former, unknown life the "long kiss goodnight".

I Christmas flavor, she plays the part of Mrs. Claus in her boondocks's Christmas parade. An inmate in prison is shocked to run across her on television, alive, and breaks out.

Meanwhile, Samantha is in a freak auto accident, injuring her head. Afterwards she recovers she discovers equally she cuts carrots one night that she has an unexpected skill with knives and assumes she must have been a chef in her past life. She could non exist more than wrong...

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This motion picture contains examples of:

• Action Film, Repose Drama Scene: At that place's a very brief one between Charly and Mitch when they arrive at the cabin in Niagara Falls and Charly realizes that her chances of making it out live are slim.

  Charly: They're going to blow my head off, you know. This is the final time I'll e'er be pretty.

  *Charly and Mitch kiss*

• Action Mom: Samantha/Charly turns into this.
• Adult Fear: At the church building Christmas pageant, viii-year-old Caitlin is walking downward the aisle, saying how-do-you-do to people, when Timothy steps behind her, knocks her out with an inhalant, and carries her out over his shoulder. He even threatens the but adult witness into silence by pulling a knife on her children.
• Alcohol Hic: Near the kickoff, Samantha lampshades this trope while on the way home from a Christmas party with her clearly drunk friend.

  Sam: Exercise me a favor: every few seconds, have some bubbling come out of your mouth and say "Hic!"

• Amnesiac Dissonance: Who would expect a modest-boondocks schoolteacher to be one of the most dangerous women in the world?
• Amnesiac Liar: Being a spy would do that to you lot.
• Amnesiac Resonance: Samantha discovers an ability with knives that she believes means she was a chef, but she's really a regime assassinator.
• Criminal Amnesiac: Luke/Daedalus keeps the prevarication that he's Samantha's fiancee, when he's actually the mark.
• An Asskicking Christmas: The events of the film take place during the Christmas holidays. In fact, Sam/Charly was believed to be dead until she was seen dressed as Mrs. Claus in a parade.
• Arms Dealer: Daedalus is i of these.
• Assault! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!:

  Mitch: [preparing for attack] Ready... and... [sees the grenade] Fuck it! Run for your life!"

• Attempted Rape: When One-Eyed Jack is given an unconscious Charly, instead of but killing her like he was ordered he begins fondling her, which results in her waking up and stabbing him in the center with a syringe. Information technology's besides implied that Timothy had previously tried something similar.

  Timothy: Jack? Jack? Jack! Do yourself a favor, man: don't let her looks fool y'all. She's the Energizer fucking Bunny. Only do her and dump her; don't try to get cute and play doctor first. I made that mistake. It well-nigh killed me.

• Ax-Crazy: Timothy is nothing simply a psychotic and heartless monster with a taste for mass murder and torture. Pretty dark considering the film'southward comedic overtones.

• Bad Boss: Timothy.

  Henchman: I'm injure real bad. I think I'chiliad dying.

  Timothy: Continue dying. Out.

• Bald of Evil: One-Eyed Jack and Leland Perkins.
• Behind the Black: the scene with Charly and the unknown gunman in an alley. Nobody seems to notice Mitch until he puts a gun to the guy'due south head. While he may accept been able to hide somewhere, there is no way he could accept snuck up on the gunman without being noticed.
• Beyond Redemption: Charly attempted to reason with Timothy non to hurt her daughter, Caitlin past revealing to him that she is not only her girl simply also his daughter. Despite hands accepting the revelation, he nevertheless considers locking both women in a freezer. At that point, Charly realized trying to get through Timothy that they're family is out of the question, so she threatens him that he'll die screaming when she and Caitlin got out of the freezer.
• Black Comedy Rape: A joke by Charly.

  Man: Hey lady. Want some visitor?

  Charly: No thanks, I'm saving myself 'til I get raped.

• Bond Villain Stupidity: The bad guys twice take our heroine helpless in their power, only fail to but shoot her. The start time is somewhat justified by their need to interrogate her, just they still get out simply one guy to do the job despite knowing how unsafe she is. The second time? They monolog their entire plan to her, and then leave her Locked in a Freezer. Luckily, she'due south filled her daughter'southward doll with gasoline, you know, only in instance she needed to set burn down to stuff. Averted in the case of Mitch's case, as they intended to merely shoot him (or stab him, there was some debate), but were too slow, giving Charly fourth dimension to blow stuff upwards and distract them.
  • Actually happens three times. In a flashback we see that One-Eyed Jack had Charly at his mercy and was ordered by Timothy to kill her. Instead he decided to have some fun with her. Simply then she woke up...
• Brainwash Residuum: Try as she might, just Charly finds out that no matter what she does, she can't "erase" Samantha through things such as cheating on Hal with Mitch, cutting herself off from the photo with the sometime and Caitlin, and attempting assassination on the ii.
• Bring My Brown Pants: A teenaged boy is smoking a cigarette when he is surprised past Charly the Spy coming up behind him with a scoped carbine rifle. He pees his pants.
  • Seeing the local mom in stretch pants and conveying a BFG calmly state "Tell anyone yous saw me, I'll blow your fucking head off" would tend to take that issue on a person.
• Buxom Is Ameliorate: In one scene Mitch notices a large-breasted female jogger while he's driving. When Samantha expresses her amusement at Mitch's reaction, Mitch comments that Samantha has the jogger crush "from the cervix up."
• Captain Obvious: "Don't hit the cars!" Lampshaded with the look Mitch gives her right after she says that.
• Chef of Iron: We wanna come across the chefs that tin do that.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Samantha slips a matchbook into her daughter's sling, then that she can continue a candle lit while her mother's away. Once Sam has her memory dorsum and is Charly Baltimore, she and her daughter are Locked In A Freezer, where the matches (forth with some gasoline) allow her to blow up the freezer door and escape.
  • Lighting a candle in the window, and then Sam tin can find "her way home".
  • A literal one. The location of Nathan'due south third gun.
• The Chick: Mitch! Fittingly for a gender flipped Bourne/Bond picture, Samuel 50 Jackson fulfils this office past being almost completely useless until the final sequence (where he acts as getaway driver). While he has his heroic moments (such as trying to bluff Timothy that he'd called the cops and trying to rescue the kid), they're pretty much doomed to failure and end up hindering equally much as helping Charlie.
• CIA Evil, FBI Expert: One of the primary antagonists is a corrupt CIA officeholder. And in one scene, Mitch tries to bluff Timothy by telling him that his "friends in the FBI" are on their way (simply Timothy is unimpressed).
• *Click* Hello

  Alley Agent: Hey beloved, this is a real large fuckin' gun.
  Mitch: <putting gun to Agent'southward head> This ain't no ham on rye, pal.

• Contrived Coincidence: After eight years of being missing and amnesiac, Samantha is in a car crash which begins the process of recovering her memories. At almost the exact same time, a former assailant happens to see a shot of her on TV, and escapes prison to kill her (she survives only because her skills have just started coming dorsum. At the same time, the depression-rent PI she hired happens to stumble beyond leads connected to her erstwhile life. And all of this happens while an old enemy of hers is in the last phase of planning a massive terror attack. These four plot lines happen for completely unrelated reasons, merely all of them happen almost simultaneously to drive the plot forward.
• Cool Guns: Information technology's blink-and-you-miss-it, simply One-Eyed Willie's bump-off endeavor has him barging into Sam'due south home packing a Winchester 1887 shotgun (yes, the one from Terminator two) with an underbarrel Grenade Launcher.
• Crazy-Prepared: Waldman, who carries three handguns on himself at all times.

  Mitch: Jesus, former man! How many of those things you got?!
  Waldman: 3: one shoulder, one hip, and one right side by side to Mr. Wally. Most pat-downs don't reveal it as an agent'due south often reluctant to feel upwards another human being's groin.

  • When trapped in the cellar, Charly fills her girl'southward doll with petrol on the off take chances this might exist useful in their escape. It is.
• Deadpan Snarker: Anybody - this is a wonderful movie for snarky lines. Especially Sam/Charly, Mitch, and Nathan Waldman.

  Mitch: Excuse me, uh... exercise you normally curse this much?
  Sam: I... what, are y'all a Mormon?
  Mitch: Yes, I'k a Mormon. That's why I but smoked a pack of Newport and drank three vodka tonics.

  • Another example:

  Mitch: (in shock) We jumped out of a building!
  Waldman: Yes, and information technology was very exciting. Tomorrow we become to the zoo.

  • And:

  Mitch: (singing to himself) Got my keys in the left pocket... gun in the correct-mitt side...
  Sam: It makes a burl! People can run across.
  Mitch: You want me to stick it down my pants and shoot my damn dick off?
  Sam: Then now you lot're a sharpshooter?

  • As well as:

  Mitch: How did yous find me?

  Waldman: There may be many reasons non to impale you, but amid them is not that you'll be missed by NASA.

• Deep Cover Amanuensis: What better comprehend than Amnesiac Dissonance?
• Deliver Us from Evil: A slightly complicated example hither. Charly, an assassin, loses her memory shortly before learning that she'southward meaning, and lives over the side by side viii or and then years of her life as a loving mother. When her memories of being an assassin eventually render and override the "mother" persona, her kickoff instinct is to dump the kid as information technology's not really "hers" and pick upwards things where she left off. This instinct lasts correct up until her girl is kidnapped by the bad guys, whereupon she goes Mama Behave. Totally averted with her child'south father, who is terrorist sociopath Timothy, who leaves them to die without a qualm fifty-fifty afterwards learning about his girl (she tried to invoke this through revealing it).
• Muddied Old Man: Samantha drives an inebriated older man home from her Christmas party. During the drive, he asks if Samantha and her fiancee ever... followed by a suggestive paw gesture. Samantha attempts to deflect his question by maxim "Make a circumvolve with our fingers and move some other finger in and out? Every take chances we get." Afterwards on he causes a auto crash past trying to touch his nose eyes airtight, waving a hand in front of Sam, allegedly to testify he's not drunk though really every bit a ploy to catch her boobs.
• Disappeared Dad: Samantha Caine doesn't at starting time know who her girl Caitlin's begetter is given her amnesia. Later she remembers that it'due south sociopathic terrorist Timothy. She had been with him as a ways of getting shut, as he was her target for assassination. Unsurprisingly, learning of his paternity doesn't meliorate him i bit: he leaves her to die.
• Disney Villain Death:
  • Averted. Timothy is tossed into an aqueduct in what seems to be his demise, but he swiftly emerges only moisture, scratched upward, and pissed off.
  • Technically averted twice, as Timothy also survives his 2nd fall...though between that fall and the bullets that riddled him, he likely WOULD take died soon if an explosion hadn't sealed the deal a trivial subsequently.
• Distracted by the Sexy: When Charly notices that Mitch's bandage needs to be changed, she opens her bathrobe and flashes him right before ripping the bandage off.
• Distressed Dude: Though Mitch and Sam/Charly are kidnapped and held hostage/tortured nearly the aforementioned amount of fourth dimension, Mitch acknowledges that she'due south way amend at getting out of those situations than he is.

  Mitch: Sam, I'll be waiting for you lot to come rescue me.

  Sam: Be simply a minute.

• The Dragon: Timothy, who becomes the Big Bad when the previous i is killed halfway through the moving picture (though fifty-fifty then, he still works for the corrupt CIA boss Leland, substantially making Timothy a Dragon-in-Master).
• Dye or Dice: Charly dyed her auburn hair blonde. Samantha let it grow out. Didn't assistance her.
• Emergency Stash: The locker opened by the key.
• Endangering News Broadcast: The whole plot is kick-started when a local news team records and airs a video of Sam existence the Mrs. Claus of a parade as role of a "funny interest" story and One-Eyed Jack sees it, making him suspension out of jail to go revenge for Charly Baltimore taking his heart.
• Establishing Graphic symbol Moment: In Timothy's beginning scene he is interrogating a captive. The captive knows that there's no way that he's getting out alive, and so he asks Timothy to execute him with a gun rather than a pocketknife. Timothy stabs the guy with a knife, apparently For the Evulz.
• Everybody Smokes: You tin count non-smoking characters on your fingers. And the cooler the characters are, the more they fume.
• Evil Uncle: Leland Perkins could be considered an evil Honorary Uncle to Charly. Perkins was friends with Charly's father, and when Charly's father was killed in Belfast (presumably past the Irish Republican Regular army, equally he was a soldier serving in the Royal Irish Rangers) Perkins recruited Charly to piece of work for Chapter.
• Eye Scream:
  • Through the peephole.
  • Some other nasty one occurs in the wink back. We find out exactly how "One-Eyed Jack" got his name.
• False Flag Operation: The bad guys' plan is to fake a terrorist attack on The states soil so the CIA will get better funding.
• Fake Affably Evil: Timothy.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Mitch and Sam start out strangers and a little leery of each other. Past the climax, they are a strong squad. They part ways at the end, simply still expect out for each other.
• Forgot the Call: Imagine The Bourne Identity if Jason Bourne's amnesia was caused by Becoming the Mask rather than a nasty boating incident.
• Genre Shift: Technically, both sides are action, but every attribute of the picture takes a hard turn when Charly regains her retention.
• Government Agency of Fiction: Charly worked for Chapter, which Waldman describes equally "a blackness bag operation working from the U.Southward. Land Department".
• Guile Hero: Applies to both Charly and Mitch. In Atlantic City, Charly tricks Perkins into revealing that he wants her expressionless past having Mitch identify a phone call to his own office, knowing that it will be traced by Affiliate. Afterwards in the picture show Mitch figures out how to find Timothy by suggesting that they get to a telephone company role and coerce an employee into tracing Timothy'south phone.
• Gun Fu: One of the earliest western examples before John Woo migrated to America. Noteworthy examples include:
  • Leaping out of an exploding edifice and shooting the frozen lake below to soften the impact of landing.
  • Loosening a cable tied to a corpse hanging from the top of a span's bannister, making the corpse drop; belongings onto the rope and allowing the corpse's weight to pull you UP Correct NEXT TO THE HELICOPTER fifty Anxiety ABOVE YOU and blowing your evil ex-lover to smithereens at betoken blank range, with the Uzi y'all merely grabbed from the falling corpse as you passed it.
• The Handler: Waldman used to exist this for Charly.
• Heel Realization: If Charly backing herself down from assassinating Hal and Caitlin could bring up an indication...
  • Leland comments "My god, we're monsters." on Timothy's kidnapping of Caitlin.
• Heroes Love Dogs: During her attempt to rescue themselves being locked in a freezer with her, Charly asked Caitlin if they should get a dog, in which the latter agreed with that. They did get a dog in the end.

  Charly: Hey, should we get a dog?

• Hoist past His Ain Petard: Timothy is blown to kingdom come by his own truck flop.
• Honey Trap: When Charly was still working equally a CIA assassin, she would seduce the men she was assigned to kill. It'due south known from the film that she had sex activity with both Daedalus and Timothy. In fact, her matter with Timothy resulted in her becoming pregnant with Caitlin.
• I'd Tell You, simply Then I'd Have to Impale You: A variant: "If you want me to talk in front of him, you may be asked to impale him afterward."
• IKEA Weaponry: One of Samantha'due south first steps toward remembering her past is finding and reassembling the sniper rifle subconscious in her former suitcase. Seeing her putting together a weapon she doesn't even properly recognize is one of the creepiest scenes in the moving picture.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship University: If it weren't for this trope, Mitch and Charly wouldn't have survived very long. This trope is especially blatant during the shootout in the train station; the hitmen sent by Chapter walk in with automatic weapons and begin spraying indiscriminately, managing to kill several innocent bystanders but not even scratching Mitch or Charly.
• Impersonating an Officeholder: Part of Mitch'southward standard con in busting guests who think they're with a prostitute.
• Important Haircut: When Samantha becomes fully enlightened of her Charly identity, she underlines the alter in her listen by irresolute her appearance, which includes cutting her hair and dying it blonde. At the terminate of the film her hair is however blonde, but it'south back to information technology'southward pre-Charly length, symbolizing that she has embraced both her kind and nurturing Samantha personality every bit well every bit her tough and independent Charly personality.
• Improvised Weapon: When One-Eyed Jack invades Charly's home, he hits her in the face with a full milk jug. As he goes for a kitchen pocketknife, Charly hits him with a pie in the face.
• Informed Bewitchery: Calling Geena Davis unattractive would exist a stretch, only no fewer than 5 characters comment on Charly/Sam'south attractiveness. Of course, the film was produced and directed past her husband.
• Informed Attribute:
  • Every time Timothy uses his Living Prevarication Detector abilities in the flick, people are really telling him the truth.
  • Strangely enough, given the Informed Attractiveness example in a higher place, Waldman says that Samantha got "frumpier," probably referring to her more than plain, matronly looks as Sam, even though she still looks damn fine. Charly says her donkey got bigger, which could be truthful.
• Irony: The car crash that starts Charly's retention recovery happens considering she'southward giving a drunk friend a ride, and so he'd get home safely. Unfortunately, his drunken antics distract her, and then she doesn't discover the deer on the route...
• Ironic Echo: Earlier in the movie, Samantha told Caitlin "life is hurting" when the latter injured herself skating on ice. In the end, Caitlin tells Samantha, as Charly, "life is pain" to help her stand up from her injuries.
• Wiggle with a Centre of Gold:
  • Samantha in her Charly status is an example of Skillful Is Non Nice with a huge emphasis on the "Not Nice."
  • Mitch, too. He'due south a good person at his cadre, simply in full general — and putting aside illegal activity — he acts like an ass.
• Karma Houdini: We never come across the corrupt CIA boss Leland killed or captured. However, information technology is implied that he gets indicted at the stop according to Hennessey on Larry Male monarch Live.
• Knife Nut: Charly and Timothy have a rather unnerving dextery with knives.
• Knight of Cerebus: The movie shifts alternately betwixt action and one-act. Once Timothy is on scene, yet, the comedy part is totally absent and things get deadly serious from there. His Establishing Character Moment is torturing and so stabbing a human but to amuse himself regardless of whether or not the homo knows anything nigh his plan. He's gear up to damage and/or kill anyone, including children, and he after plans to have Charly frozen to death along with her young daughter even after finding out that she's also his daughter.
• Leitmotif: Hennessy hums a standard blues riff to himself a couple of times throughout the picture... which comes back with an electric guitar vengeance when he pops out from concealment inside the car that the agents brought forth to the bridge (to place the dead bodies of the people they were going to frame for the bomb) at the climax, showing that he's Made of Iron.
• Leno Device: Mitch gets to continue Larry King Live!
• Living Lie Detector: Timothy boasts of this ability. It comes back to bite him in the ass when Charley promises to impale him dead.

  Charly: "You're gonna die screaming. And I'k gonna watch. Am I telling the truth?"

• Locked in a Freezer: Charly uses a meathook to scrape a hole in the ground under the door, fills the hole with gasoline, and blows the door off its hinges. She'southward nothing if not resourceful.
• Luke, You Are My Begetter: As Timothy is about to leave Charly and her young girl Caitlin to freeze to death together in a meat locker, Charly reveals that Caitlin's also his. He leaves them both in the locker anyhow.
• Made of Iron: Both protagonists survive being thrown violently from cars, diving iii stories into icy water, beingness tortured, being shot, and getting literally blown out of a house and through a sign. It's a bit more than impressive with Mitch since Samantha/Charly is a trained assassin, while Mitch is a low-hire private investigator/con human being.
  • The same goes for primary villain Timothy, who survives what would take been a Disney Villain Death in any boilerplate activity movie and simply gets pissed off. He also technically survives being shot repeatedly and falling out of a helicopter and onto a truck, albeit for just about 30 seconds before the truck explodes. Simply fifty-fifty though it'southward articulate his wounds would take killed him anyway, he didn't immediately die.
• Magical Negro: Hennessey is determined to avert this trope. "Yes, Miss Daisy, I be honkin'!"
• Majorly Awesome: Charly is referred to every bit "Major Baltimore" a few times, suggesting that she has a military background (either that, or Chapter uses a military-like ranking arrangement).
• Make Information technology Wait Like an Accident: This is how Timothy is going to cover up the deaths of Charly and Caitlin.

  Timothy: Now, they're, uh... They're gonna observe your bodies somewhere in Pennsylvania, and you're only gonna be written off as some crazy mommy who kidnapped her own kid, and died with her in a blizzard.

• Mama Bear: Samantha, made even more dangerous because of her assassin training.
• Martial Arts and Crafts: The protagonist becomes really skilful in the kitchen before long afterwards a automobile crash. She thinks her memories are starting to render after eight years of amnesia, and that her great skill with knives mean she used to exist a chef. She's right about the get-go function.
• Meaningful Echo: "Life is hurting. You just go used to it!"
• Meaningful Name: Sam Caine -> Amnesiac
• Minor Criminal offence Reveals Major Plot: Samantha'south murder attempt ——> A false flag terrorist attack orchestrated by decadent CIA operatives.
• Modest Royalty: The beginning time we run into the President of the U.s., he's wearing pajamas and making himself a sandwich for a late-night snack in the White House kitchen (rather than having a butler or other servant make information technology for him).
• Mondegreen Gag: Mitch is hearing England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Like to See You Tonight" on the radio, and sings forth, using the phrase, "I'k not talking 'bout the linen," when Samantha corrects him that the bodily words in the vocal are "I'one thousand not talking near moving in."
• Mood Whiplash: The film itself goes through a big, Large ane when Samantha regains her retentivity. Beforehand, it comes across as a Film Noir about a woman'southward uncovering of a Dark and Troubled Past with the help of a Individual Detective. Once she becomes Charly once again, the moving-picture show's mood transforms into that of a sleek spy thriller.
  • Throughout, this film tin can run effectually a flake, with the comedy mixed in with the night.
• Morality Chain: Charly realizes Hal and Caitlin are this for her, hence her hesitation to kill them in order to "erase" Samantha. The latter's kidnapping by Timothy motivates her to come to her rescue. Averted with Timothy's example with Caitlin that not merely he kidnaps her but too leaves her to dice in the freezer with her female parent, even afterward Charly reveals that Caitlin is too his daughter.
• Ms. Fanservice: Samantha/Charly both redheaded and blonde.
• Near-Miss Groin Attack: During the scene when Mitch is being interrogated past Timothy while tied to a chair, Timothy tries intimidating Mitch by flinging a knife that embeds itself on the chair's surface, a few inches from Mitch's groin.
• Neck Snap: Samantha hits a stag and crashes her car. In the backwash, she finds the deer bleeding to death and snaps its neck to put it out of its misery. Then she wonders how she did that.
  • She as well does this to I-Eyed Jack (via a rabbit dial) and a nameless mook outside of the motel by Niagra Falls.
• Never-Forgotten Skill: Samantha Caine has had amnesia for eight years. But it becomes clear that this hasn't stopped her from executing a Cervix Snap, a rabbit punch, and pocketknife moves similar a professional person.
• Nice Guy: Samantha'southward fiancee, Hal.
• Prissy Job Fixing It, Villain: If 1-Eyed Jack had refrained from trying to kill Samantha, she wouldn't take tried to detect out why that happened, which ways she wouldn't accept recalled her one-time identity as Charly Baltimore, and therefore, she wouldn't have foiled his boss' plans.
• No Endor Holocaust:
  • When Sam returns to her firm it is played directly in the kitchen - everything is great and tidy in there despite just a day or so passing since the boxing where the fridge door was blasted. (Wow, the insurance replaced the refrigerator fast!)
  • Averted though when she runs down the steps - the hole in the wall was boarded up and papers are on the banister.
• Noodle Incident: Nosotros hear a television set say "...and so, so much for the skydiving Santa Claus..."
• Not So Stoic: Timothy. When Charly tells him that he'southward going to die screaming, he actually looks a little frightened by her threat. Later after Charly knocks him into an aqueduct, he completely loses his composure.
• Offscreen Karma: Leland Perkins is the simply major antagonist who doesn't become killed past Charly. However, in the film'southward epilogue it's mentioned by Larry King that he was indicted on multiple counts of high treason. Considering that treason is a capital crime in the Us, it'south very possible that Perkins would take been given the death penalty (or at the very least he'll be spending the remainder of his life in federal prison).
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Mitch got disrepair and did prison fourth dimension for stealing federal bonds. So now, whenever he gives his son a nice souvenir, his estranged ex assumes it's stolen goods.
• Outrun the Fireball:
  • From a surprisingly powerful grenade.
  • And then they outdrive the fireball at the end of the film.
• Pie in the Face: Charly subdues 1-Eyed Jack with this during their fight at her house. It's not the pie that does the chore - it's the ceramic blistering dish the pie was in, which breaks his nose.
• Individual Detective: Mitch's solar day job.
• Psycho for Hire: Timothy. He's an utter sociopath that probably doesn't even enjoys the slaughter he does, but he really has no problem doing information technology either.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Leland Perkins. He views the Honeymoon plot every bit a necessary evil to get the CIA the funding that it desperately needs, and when he sees that Timothy has kidnapped Caitlin he comments "My god, nosotros're monsters." and even gives her a doll as a Christmas present.
• Revealing Skill: The protagonist is a sweet innocent soccer mom with a retentiveness loss - she hit her head 5 years ago, and her entire life earlier that is forgotten. Shortly afterward the kickoff of the movie, she's of a sudden creepily adept with knives. She says that she must have been a chef before the accident, but it's undeniable that she besides equally her family unit have received the first clue that she was, something else...
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Mitch likes revolvers; the 2 guns he keeps on himself are a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Model 36 and a Colt King Cobra .357 magnum.
• Rewatch Bonus: At the start of the film, Samantha tin can be seen property a processed cane the same style that Charly holds her cigarette.
• Running Gag: Mitch hums a standard blues riff to himself when he's thinking. This culminates in him driving out of the back of a truck while the riff blares out on electric guitars.
  • An before example, fabricated even more crawly because he's Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson:

    Mitch: Da-da-da-da-dun, got me a handgun. Da-da-da-da-dun, got me a rifle, besides. Da-da-da-da-dun, everyone fuck with Mitch, he knows but what to d-o. 'Cuz I'one thousand a bad motherfucker.[i]

• Salt and Pepper: Played straight with Samantha and Mitch, and then inverted when Charly comes dorsum.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Hither!: Their first night in a hotel, Mitch hears Sam scream from her room. He opens the door and she nearly hits him with a loftier-power sniper rifle, which she'd patently constitute in her old things, assembled and loaded. Understandably, he sees this as a good fourth dimension to just plow around and get dwelling house. Sam does talk him down, somewhen.
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil: At Daedalus' house, the helicopter makes no noise until the heroes see it.
• Self-Plagiarism: Brian Cox's line "Yep, information technology was very exciting. Tomorrow we get to the zoo" was in Shane Blackness's original script for The Final Boy Scout. Both scripts also have the hero sarcastically mention that someone is so funny they're going to wet themself.
• Shout-Out:
  • Samantha is loosely based on Candy Jones.
  • The title seems to be a shout out to the film The Long Goodbye, a Phillip Marlowe mystery/satire where the character is eternally 20 years backside everyone else. The motion picture is even shown on TV in one scene.
• The Sociopath: Timothy. Insanely murderous terrorist and child abuser.
• Split Personality: Davis does an eerily good job of making the audience believe she's two people.
  • Eventually results in a Split-Personality Merge.
• Talking to Themself: Briefly in the mirror
• Took a Level in Badass: Charly, definitely.
• To the Pain: Timothy is willing to blind and cripple a little girl. That is his daughter.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Forgot her life because she got shot, and vicious off a cliff into the sea, started getting her memories back afterwards a car accident, and regained them completely after beingness tortured and almost drowned.
• Trouser Space: Nathan is well-armed:

  Mitch: Jesus, former man, how many of those you got?
  Nathan: 3 — one shoulder, one hip, and one here right next to Mr. Wally. Most patdowns never reveal it every bit an amanuensis's often reluctant to feel up another man's groin. Other questions?
  Mitch: Yeah — what'south the weather condition like on your planet?

• The Vamp: Slinky, knife-throwing terrorist Timothy is a rare male Vamp.
• Villainous Breakdown: Subsequently being knocked into an aqueduct filled with rushing water by Charly, the normally smug and self Timothy is clearly rattled and very angry.

  Timothy: Go me to the bridge! I'm not leaving until I know that bitch is dead!

• Villain Squad-Upward: This film has three major antagonists.
  • Luke/Daedalus, a black market arms dealer.
  • Timothy, a Psycho for Hire who works every bit Daedalus' chief enforcer.
  • Leland Perkins, a rogue CIA official.
• H2o Torture: Samantha is strapped to a water wheel and repeatedly submerged into the freezing cold h2o by the villain in an attempt to proceeds data from her.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We last left Sam's friend from the blow unconscious in a automobile that was catching on burn. While information technology's probably safe to assume he died, we never learn for sure and his plot is never brought back upwardly.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Mitch gives 1 of these to Charly when she tries to seduce him in Atlantic City.

  Mitch: Get real, sweetheart. I own't handsome, I own't rich, and the last time I got blown candy bars cost a nickel. What's going on?

  Charly: Chemical science.

  Mitch: Chemistry my ass. Y'all know what I recollect? This is why y'all'd fuck me. *holds up photograph* To kill a schoolteacher. To bury her once and for all. Well, I kind of liked that schoolteacher. When she comes back, you give me a telephone call, all correct?

• What You Are in the Dark: At one betoken, Charly contemplated on killing both Hal and Caitlin in order to eliminate whatsoever traces of her Samantha persona, but she finds herself unable to do so.
• Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Take a await at the False Flag Functioning.
• World of Snark: As mentioned higher up, virtually every character in this flick is a Deadpan Snarker.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Timothy. He's admittedly willing to kill Caitlin, even after learning that she is his biological daughter.
  • In another scene, afterward he kidnaps Caitlin, he threatens a adult female nearby that she'll have "ii.4 children" (meaning he'll cut 'em to pieces) if she tries to warn someone.
• Yous Are Grounded!: Charly said this to Caitlin when she disobeyed her order to leave the truck bomb and instead focused on helping her stand up.

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