The Dead Pool

Television reporter: "... jazz composer Eduardo Barla was eulogized today..." (0:02)

Director Peter Swan: "... that goes for the rest of you incompetent morons..."
Singer Johnny Squares: ”... a director with talent would have the guts to shoot something original instead of ripping off old movies like The Exorcist.”
Peter tells assistant Vicky, ”Don’t worry.” (0:11)

Drug paraphernalia
Johnny injects a vein in his arm. (0:13)

Police Inspector Harry Callahan tells his partner Inspector Al Quan, "Well, this one’s got... scabs up and down both arms, fresh puncture marks on his left forearm..." (0:15)

Harry asks Peter, "... does anyone on your set use drugs?"
Peter: ”We don’t do drugs, Callahan...”
Harry: ”What about Squares, was he using?”
Peter: ”If he had a drug problem, it was their job to take care of it...”
”Drugs were Johnny’s trademark...” (0:17)

Reporter Samantha Walker tells Harry, "We just had word that Johnny Squares OD’d..." (0:18)

Samantha on television: "... Squares had a long history of drug use. The rock star was arrested last July for possession of heroin... Many of his songs were allegedly based on his drug experience." (0:21)

Samantha tells Harry, "I had no business intruding on that girl’s grief." (0:27)

Harry tells Al, "The coroner's report... said that Squares was using speedballs."
Al: ”Injecting both cocaine and heroin?”
Harry: ”He was using an inhaler with some sort of new designer drug, a synthetic form of heroin.”
Al: ”You mean something along the lines of China White.”
Harry: ”He took one snort of that...”
”Maybe he didn’t know what he was using.” (0:29)

Harry tells Al, "Check the cast and crew for prior drug busts. I’ll check with narcotics to see if there’s any dealers moving synthetic heroin." (0:30)

Burial of Johnny in a cemetery (0:31)

Harry tells Peter, "Well, someone gave Squares the drugs that killed him."
”Johnny was a major drug user...” (0:33)

Samantha, on television: "Tune in tonight for an exclusive report on chemical dependency among celebrities..." (0:34)

Gang boss Lou Jannero tells Harry, "Sounds like this Dead Pool thing is making you a little paranoid, Callahan." (0:43)

Peter answers Samantha: "No, we’re filming a nightmare sequence..."
Reporter: ”First, Johnny Squares died of a drug overdose...” (0:46)

A man identifying himself as Peter Swan tells film critic Folly Fisher, "... a dream world." (0:48)

A policeman tells Harry, referring to Gus Wheeler, "He soaked himself in gasoline and is threatening to set himself on fire if we go near him... he’ll torch himself." (0:52)

Samanthat tells Gus, "... we’re not gonna film your suicide." (0:54)

Samantha tells Harry, "This man sets himself on fire." (0:56)

Harry slugs two men in the head. (1:04)

Peter tells Harry and Al, referring to Harlan Rook, "He was crazy." (1:05)

Al tells Harry, "Look, I think I got a lead on Rook, a psychiatrist who treated him." (1:08)

Captain Donnelly tells Harry, "This is Dr. Friedman, chief psychiatrist here at the hospital."
Friedman: ”... your partner contacted me about a former patient of ours.”
”The diagnosis was process schizophrenia.”
Donnelly: ”Multiple personality.”
Friedman: ”His own sense of self-hate was so strong that he no longer really had any personality of his own. Consequently, he substituted identities found in books, films, fan magazine, identities with which he often had a love-hate relationship.”
”Most mentally ill people are not violent, inspector.” (1:14)

Donnelly tells Harry, "Talk about obsession." (1:15)

Harlan Rook tells Samantha, "Those are my nightmares, not his. Every night I dream, and somehow he reads my mind. He stole my thoughts... He stole my nightmares..."
Rook strikes Samantha in the face. (1:18)