ABSTRACT

At the beginning of Narc (Joe Carnahan 2002), undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chases suspect Elvin Dowd (Don Leis) on foot through a Detroit housing project. Tellis pursues his prey over fences, across yards, through a house, down an alley, around a corner and over a wall. Dowd grabs an innocent bystander (Lloyd Adams) and stabs him in the neck with a syringe containing a combination of heroin and other substances. Tellis fires some rounds from his pistol, Dowd again fees, the bystander goes into seizure and Tellis pursues Dowd to a playground where Dowd grabs and threatens to stab with a syringe a little girl (Meagan Issa). Tellis fires four more rounds, killing Dowd and saving the girl. However, one of Tellis's bullets also hits the girl's pregnant mother (Lina Felice), precipitating the death of her unborn child.