Plot SynopsisThe film opens with a pan down to a street curb/gutter in Hollywood with dead leaves.The curb is stenciled with SUNSET BLVD.- the image is an appropriate metaphor for the tawdry exposé to follow.The camera pulls back across the cracked, defaced asphalt with superimposed credits - also stenciled.The semi-documentary police thriller features an unsympathetic protagonist - the vulgar, brutal, tireless, unlikable, maniacal and sadistic Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) as the main undercover New York City narcotics cop, who toes the thin line between fighting crime and committing crimes himself.Cora: You didn""t mean that.You were joking.Frank: Well sure.Sure.I-I was joking.Cora: Of course you were.Of course.Drunk and silly, Nick accuses Frank of being a "thief" when he notices the packed suitcases.Cora defends her lover: "You""re crazy, Nick.Why Frank""s not a thief.All of a sudden this afternoon, he got an attack of road fever and said his feet were itching for a new place.They landed for fuel at a private airstrip, where Stephen was attacked by a sledge hammer-wielding zombie outside a dilapidated hangar, and escaped being bitten when he crushed the ghoul""s skull.