Dirty Harry: "Go on out and get some air, fatso!"
Scorpio: "Please! No more!"
Scorpio: "Please! No more!"
- Most, if not all, of the film's horrific moments can be traced to Scorpio, an Ax-Crazy serial sniper.
- He starts out with a murder of a woman that wouldn't be out of place in a TV-PG rated crime procedural today, but quickly moves on to killing a child (using N-Word Privileges in the process) by blowing away part of his face. Thankfully, this isn't shown, but Facial Horror is strongly implied.
- Then he targets a gay black guy, but fails to kill him. The scene in which he targets him is tense and full of Paranoia Fuel, due to the fact that the victim does not expect a psychopath suddenly and violently killing him in a public area with friends.
- Then he demands $200,000 ($1.2 million today) for a teenage girl he kidnapped, describing her body in a chilling letter that was sent with a bra, a lock of her hair and a pulled tooth.
- In order to save the girl, Harry needs to answer several payphones throughout the city in a sick, twisted game that ends with Scorpio brutally assaulting Harry and saying that he's going to kill him and let the girl die anyway. The worst part is that while he doesn't succeed in the former, he does succeed in the latter — by the time Harry and his people find her, she's already dead.
- The torture scene on the football field can be quite unsettling if you don't know the context of it, and even if you do. Harry's superiors even call the act in question "police torture", and it messes up a good amount of his case regarding Scorpio. Even when it's being done to a serious monster like Scorpio, police misconduct is a bad thing.
