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Steve is the main antagonist in the 1988 action thriller, Shoot to Kill
He's a diabolical extortionist/murderer who stole a handful of diamonds and tries to hide from the FBI while trying to escaping to Canada.
He was portrayed by Clancy Brown,
Biography[]
In San Francisco, the owner of a jewelry store breaks into his own establishment and is questioned by SFPD and Agent Warren Stantin of the FBI. The Man reveals that his wife is held hostage by a gunman and demanded some of his diamonds for her freedom. During a standoff, the gunman kills the family's maid and demands he be allowed to take the jeweler's wife to the docks to make the handoff.
Stantin tails them to the docks in an attempt to apprehend him, but the extortionist kills the wife by shooting her in the eye and rigs a boat as a decoy so he could escape.
The extortionist then escapes to Washington, kills a man and steals his clothing and gear and infiltrates a fishing party under the alias "Steve". Stantin learns a fishing party led by local fishing guide Sarah Rennell went into the forest from the mine, and enlists her boyfriend, Jonathan Knox to help find them; Knox, who wanted to search for Sarah by himself, reluctantly agrees.
Meanwhile in Sarah's fishing party, a fisherman nearly falls from a ledge, and another fisherman, Steve, attempts to help him. When a gun he is carrying slips into a crack, Steve asks the fisherman to return it, but then lets the fisherman fall, throws the rest of the fishing party off the ledge, and takes Sarah hostage, demanding she lead him to Canada. Stantin and Knox make camp and discover the dead fishermen in a stream, and Knox becomes convinced Sarah is dead. The pair reach Sarah's cabin, where Steve and Sarah rested for the night, and find a note to the FBI in Sarah's handwriting, confirming she is still alive.
Sarah manages to break free from Steve, who fires his gun at her, alerting Stantin and Knox to their location; however, Steve recaptures Sarah and escapes in a logging truck, evading capture yet again. Stantin and Knox arrive in Vancouver, where they learn Steve and Sarah broke into a home to rest and call a diamond broker. Stantin and Knox break into the diamond broker's home and interrogate him to learn where he plans to meet Steve.
The pair stake out the meeting place and find Steve holding Sarah, but Steve spots Knox. After a brief shootout, Steve carjacks an SUV and leads Stantin, Knox, and the Vancouver Police Department on a car chase. After briefly losing sight, Stantin and Knox spot the SUV on a departing ferry, but police search the SUV and do not find them; Stantin realizes this is another decoy, and he and Knox search a second ferry.
Stantin and Knox find Steve and exchanges fire with him before Knox can distract him into getting shot in the ear and releasing Sarah. When Steve takes a passenger and her children hostage, Stantin tries to distract him but is shot multiple times. Steve prepares to execute Stantin by shooting him in the left eye, but when he pulls the trigger he has run out of bullets; Steve then throws both of them overboard, and after a brief struggle Stantin shoots Steve in the stomach twice and then into his left eye, killing him.
Trivia[]
- It's implied that Steve used to be a police officer hence why he manages to stay a step ahead of Stantin throughout the film.