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A San Francisco city bus, with eight passengers and the driver, pulls out of a downtown bus station and moves through the city stopping once for a new passenger. The passenger, unseen above the chest, walks to the back of the bus pulls the pieces of a sub-machine gun from a tote bag, assembles them, and massacres the eight passenger and the driver. The bus crashes and the killer walks away. Driving onto the scene are homicide detectives Jake Martin (Walter Matthau), Leo Larsen (Bruce Dern) and James Larrinore (Lou Gosset). As they search the bus they find one of the bodies is that of Dave Evans (Anthony Costello), Martins police partner. It is the search for the murderer and the reason for Evans presence on the bus that pairs detective Martin and Larsen together. With the help of Evans girlfriend Kay Butler (Cathy Lee Crosby), they determine that Evans was following leads to close a murder case which Martin, sixteen years on the force, was unable to solve two years previous. Thed search takes the two detectives to most of the seamy sides of San Francisco, with its hustlers, porno theatres, topless and gay bars, boarding houses and restaurants, from the rankest to the plushest. Aware that he has been forced upon Martin, that Larsen, a veteran detective in his early 30s , tough, mischievous, blunt and slightly crass, does his best to make his replacement of Evans as subtle as possible. Martin, withdrawing into himself, ignores Larsen. In the pursuit of Evans leads, Mratin discovers a bizarre possible solution linking the unsolved murder and the bus massacre. Unable, by the lack of evidence to explain his theory to Larsen, he attempts to convince him to pursue his theory and deviate from the the instructions of their superiors. At first, Larsen refuses, but as his respect for Martim and his unorthodox police procedure increases, Larsen agrees and the two policemen set out to trap the mass murderer.
In San Francisco, eight passengers and the driver of a bus are killed by a passenger with machine gun. Police detectives Jake Martin, Leo Larsen and James Larrimore find the body of Martins partner Dave Evans among the victims. Lieutenant Steiner assigns Larsen to be the new partner of Martin, who is obsessed by the murder of his former partner. He meets Evans girlfriend that believed he was working in overtime with Martin. Now the detective is convinced that Evans was investigating the wealthy Camerero, who was the prime suspect of a murder case two years ago.
Walter Matthau
Jake Martin
Bruce Dern
Larsen
Louis Gossett Jr.
Larrimore
Albert Paulsen
Camerero
Anthony Zerbe
Steiner
Val Avery
Pappas
Cathy Lee Crosby
Kay
Mario Gallo
Bobby Mow
Joanna Cassidy
Monica
Shirley Ballard
Grace
William Hansen
Schwermer
Don Borisenko
Collins
Paul Koslo
Haygood
Louis Guss
Gus Niles
Frances Lee McCain
Prostitute
David Moody
Pimp
Ivan Bookman
Rodney
Clifton James
Maloney
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