Arjen Rudd

"Diplomatic immunity!"

- Arjen Rudd Minister Arjen Rudd is one of two main antagonists in the 1989 film Lethal Weapon 2, the other being Pieter Vorstedt.

He is portrayed by Joss Ackland.

Biography
Rudd is a minister of affairs for the South African Consulate as well as a top South African smuggler. He warns Detectives Martin Riggs and Robert Murtaugh to call off their investigation and explains to them that he and his men are under diplomatic immunity, meaning the law can't touch them. When they continue to interfere with his affairs, Rudd sends Vorstedt to kill their cop friends one by one. He also has his accomplice Rika, who had become Riggs' new love interest, killed later on for her betrayal.

Riggs and Murtaugh confront Rudd, Vorstedt and the rest of the South Africans at a shipping dock, bound for Cape Town. After Riggs kills Vorstedt by dropping a cargo container on top of him, Rudd shoots him repeatedly and nearly kills him. When Murtaugh aims his gun at Rudd, he holds up his ID, boasting of his diplomatic immunity. Murtaugh ignores this and shoots Rudd in the head, claiming that "It's just been revoked!"