criminal career for good, or she has only postponed killing Nick. Incidentally, Nick Curran has disappeared by the second movie. During an interview in Spain, Sharon Stone commented that "poor Nick is dead," implying with a swift stabbing motion that an ice pick was indeed used. A conversation in Basic Instinct 2 reveals Nick's fate more explicitly. Michael Glass tells Tramell he has spoken to Lieutenant Phil Walker, who appeared in the first film, and she summarily dismisses this news with the remark, "Paranoid Phil. Now there's a blast from the past". According to Glass, "He said you murdered a Johnny Boz and two detectives in San Francisco", to which she answers, "I was never even charged". Glass finally says, "Grand jury said that Nick Curran's girlfriend did it". Since only one police detective is killed onscreen in the first movie (Nilsen is merely an Internal Affairs officer), the implication is that Curran was the second detective to be killed. Legacy Catherine Tramell is considered to be one of Stone's most iconic roles, with the actor mentioning how difficult it was to play a serial killer in her memories book, dedicating several chapters to the character, accepting Catherine Tramell to be her most famous and relevant character. Tramell was nominated for the American Film Institute's list of the "Best Villains", and was named one of the greatest characters by Entertainment Weekly in 2010. During the trial of the murder of Jun Lin, it was then determined that Magnotta's "Tramell" alias drew on elements from the 1990s erotic thriller Basic Instinct, using not only the name of the movie's main character, but also borrowing from her crime when he killed 33-year-old Jun Lin, according to the prosecution at his murder trial. References Female characters in film Fictional bisexual females Fictional characters from San Francisco Film characters introduced in 1992 Fictional cocaine users Fictional LGBT characters in film Fictional matricides Fictional patricides Fictional psychologists Fictional serial killers Fictional writers Female film villains Thriller film characters LGBT villains Sharon Stone