Your wife, right? She didn""t die straight away...it took a bit of time." As he was thrown off the dock into the water, Vorstedt mocked him: "You don""t have much luck with women, do you, Riggs?" Riggs quickly wriggled out of the strait-jacket by dislocating his shoulder (a skill demonstrated earlier), but then turned underwater to see Rika""s drowned corpse.Michael Douglas had considered playing he starring role, but by the time of the film""s production, he judged himself too old." Cutter later interpreted for Ritter: "What he means is, the gloves come off" - and plans were initiated to strike back by eliminating the cartel leaders with another black-ops operation.Set-pieces:the rescue mission of agent Farris in a German warehouse followed by a helicopter pursuit sequence in a field of windmills, the kidnapping/capture of Davian during the Vatican City reception in Rome (including the making of a facial mask and voice-tape), the drone/helicopter siege attack on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the infiltration of a Shanghai high-rise lab building (via death-defying jump) to steal the Rabbit""s Foot and the subsequent car chase, and Ethan""s footrace to Julia""s location to save her in the final shoot-out/confrontation."Trinity: "I better go."As the mysterious black vinyl-clad heroine Trinity had suspected, their computer connection was not clean - their conversation had been traced after their hard-line was cut.