to strangle Jack. He shoots and wounds her in the arm, then tries to drive away with her handcuffed in the back seat. Mona escapes by hooking her legs around his neck, causing him to crash the car. She slithers out through the shattered windshield without freeing her hands. Mona lures Jack to an empty apartment. He again attempts to kill her but is tricked into shooting Sheri instead. Mona fixes the corpse so as to suggest that it was she, and not Sheri, who died. Mona has Jack abducted and transported to an abandoned warehouse: she handcuffs him to a bed and they have sex. Later Mona forces Jack to assist in burying Falcone alive. Mona then betrays Jack by turning him into the police, copping a plea deal that will indict Jack for the multiple murders that she tricked him into committing. The police arrange a confrontation between Jack and Mona Demarkov at the courthouse, as he is heading in and she is heading out. She threatens to kill his wife, prompting Jack to grab a gun from the ankle holster of a fellow officer and shoot her dead. He turns the gun on himself, only to discover that the revolver is empty. Instead of being sent to prison for the murder, he is given a commendation. This frees him to begin a new life in the West, under the identity of "Jim Daugherty". The final scene shows Jack living alone in a remote desert town and working at a diner. He longs for Natalie's return and laments the loss of his old life. Cast Gary Oldman as Jack Grimaldi/Jim Daugherty Lena Olin as Mona Demarkov Annabella Sciorra as Natalie Grimaldi Juliette Lewis as Sheri Roy Scheider as Don Falcone Michael Wincott as Sal David Proval as Scully Will Patton as Martie Tony Sirico as Malacci James Cromwell as Cage Ron Perlman as Jack's Attorney Dennis Farina as Nick Gazzara (uncredited) Production The film was filmed on location in New York City in Coney Island, Bushwick, Manhattan, and Queens. Aborted Bon Jovi involvement Jon Bon Jovi wrote the song "Always" for the film but withheld the track after he was dissatisfied with a preview screening. Bon Jovi in 2004 recalled, "The script was great: the movie wasn't." Reception Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said that while Oldman is "unsurpassable" in portraying depraved characters, the film is "an exercise