Plot: After Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan's (Clint Eastwood's) arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry's car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Inspector Al Quan (Evan C. Kim). Within a few days of this assignment, Harry and Al find themselves working on the mysterious death of rock star Johnny Squares (Jim Carrey), who was on-location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan's crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al and Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called "The Dead Pool", and it isn't long before other people on the list turn up dead, and someone starts making attempts on Harry's life.
Alternative Plot: In the fifth installment of the Dirty Harry series, gritty cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is fresh off the conviction of a major mob boss. When horror film director Peter Swan (Liam Neeson) develops a "dead pool" betting on celebrity deaths, he is shocked when a serial killer begins targeting those named, including TV reporter Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson) and Callahan himself. Action and violence abound as Callahan tracks the killer in an attempt to stop the murders.
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