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“ | For twenty years, I’ve been eating s**t! Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Well tonight I’m changing the menu. From now on, everything I eat is gonna be s**t-free! | „ |
~ Sheriff Mike Collins |
Sheriff Mike Collins is the main antagonist in the 1998 film Hard Rain.
He is portrayed by Randy Quaid, who also portrays Nick Laemle in Parents, Elijah C. Skuggs in Freaked and Alameda Slim in Home on the Range.
Biography[]
Collins is the sheriff of the town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been flooded due to an extremely heavy rainstorm. He is charged with evacuating the town and making sure its inhabitants reach safe ground, and although he carries out his duty effectively with the help of his deputies, Collins is shown to be resentful of the town mayor and the lack of respect he receives in his job as sheriff.
Meanwhile, armoured truck drivers Tom and his uncle Charlie are collecting money from banks across town when they are ambushed by a gang of armed robbers, led by a man named Jim. Charlie is accidentally shot and killed by one of Jim’s men but Tom manages to escape and hide the money in a graveyard. After evading the robbers, Tom takes refuge in a church but is mistaken for a looter by a woman named Karen, who knocks him out. Tom later wakes up in Collins’ cell and he tells the sheriff about the gang of robbers and his uncle’s death, as well as the $3 million. Collins’ chief deputy, Wayne Bryce, locks Tom in the cell while he and the sheriff go and investigate, although the floodwaters begin to rapidly rise and Tom nearly drowns before being rescued by Karen.
Tom is later forced by Jim to show him where he hid the money and he reluctantly leads the gang of robbers to the graveyard. However, when they arrive, Tom discovers that the money is no longer there – Collins had found the money and is intending to split it between himself and his deputies. Collig and his deputies then arrive and most of the robbers are killed in the ensuing gunfight. Jim attempts to use Tom as leverage to prevent Collins from shooting him, but Collins attempts to kill both of them, much to Tom and Jim’s horror. Karen attempts to stop Collins but he smacks her into the water and has one of his deputies take her back to her house, where he handcuffs her to a banister and plans to rape her. Karen manages to stab the man to death but is unable to free herself from the handcuffs.
Later on, while Tom and Jim are hiding from Collins in the church, Collins and his other deputies find them and throw petrol bombs through the windows before breaking in on their boats. Tom and Jim manage to hold the sheriff at gunpoint but he tells them that if they let him go with the money, he’ll tell them where Karen is before she drowns. Tom agrees but Jim doesn’t, adamantly stating that he only cares about the money, so Tom goes to rescue Karen while Jim stays with Collins. However, Collins manages to catch Jim off guard and wounds him with a gunshot to the shoulder before driving off in his boat, betraying one of his own men along the way by throwing him into the water and leaving him to be killed in a gas explosion.
Tom frees Karen and they climb to the roof of her house to avoid the rising floodwater, but Collins arrives in his boat and tries yet again to kill them. Jim comes up from behind in his own boat and Collins shoots at him, disabling the steering and forcing Jim to drive over the roof. The boat’s engine comes loose and hits Collins, knocking him into the water, but he rises shortly after to make one last attempt at taking the money. Karen attempts to shoot him but realises that the gun has run out of ammunition. Before Collins can kill her, he is gunned down by both Tom and Jim and sent tumbling into the water, to his death.