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"My buddy and his dog killed two of them, and, no shit... I torched the last one."
- The three Manson cultists are brutalized by Rick and Cliff, plus his guard dog Brandy in the climax.
- Tex Watson is savaged in the groin by a manic Brandy, who goes into instant kill mode when Cliff gives her a verbal tic. When he finally shakes Brandy off and tries to attack Cliff with his back-up knife, Cliff QUICKLY disarms him, stabs him with his own blade, knocks him down, and finishes him off with a curb stomp over a doorstep. Tex gets off lightly compared to Patricia and Susan.
- Patricia Krenwinkel attacks Cliff from behind and plunges her knife into his hip. He shrugs it off, grabs her by her hair and turns her into a human ragdoll, dragging her screaming around the house whilst smashing her face at full force into every hard surface that he can find. By the time he lets her lifeless corpse drop, after about 15 hits, there is only a sickening, bloody pulp where her face used to be.
- Susan Atkins' death is the most Rasputinian: she has her nose caved in by a flying can of dog food, gets viciously mauled and savaged over her entire body by Brandy, crashes through Rick's plate glass patio door in a state of screaming delirium (getting glass and debris embedded into her face), then falls into in Rick's pool and nearly drowns, all whilst bleeding heavily. Against all the odds, she still manages to survive and get back on her feet in the water, only to be incinerated alive by Rick and his flamethrower, which is what finally kills her. She carries her knife in her hand the entire time, but never actually gets to use it.
- Even Francesca manages to get a good hit in by surprising and punching Patricia Krenwinkel to the floor.
- All in all, the deaths of all three are quite horrific. But considering what they were planning to do to Rick, Cliff and Francesca, not to mention what their real-life counterparts did to Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and her friends, they very much had it coming and then some.
- Cliff is also flying high on acid during the whole climax, and is still completely spaced out in the ambulance at the end. It appears to bring his implied, latent killing streak to the fore.
- The end of Cliff's visit to the Spahn Ranch, where he violently beats the shit out of Clem Grogan for slashing Rick's tire and forces him to change it, definitively getting his way with him.
- When Rick is filming the Lancer pilot, he blows his lines in his first scene and has a horrible meltdown in his trailer. But then, he pulls himself together and delivers a truly engaging and terrifying performance in the next scene, even pulling off some killer improv that director Sam Wanamaker adores. The experience, and especially a child actor who takes her job extremely seriously telling him it was the best acting she'd ever seen, seems to reinvigorate his whole love of acting after his career slump of the last two years.
