Before escaping, Travis (using armor-piercing bullets) shot and killed young rookie cop Edwards who had tailed along ("Another baby," mourned Murtaugh), and had thought it was safe to take cover behind a steel barrel.The month""s rent has been paid - by his wife from money given her by an old man! An overjoyed Gerry tells him that the rent and household bills are paid and she was able to afford a dress, a visit to the beauty salon, and new shoes and stockings - and with the leftover $14 cash, she""ll ake him out to dinner and the theater! He is naturally suspicious and jealous - Tom sarcastically objects to the attention she has received and is appalled by her shameless behavior, suspecting the worst.Donald Pleasence passed away during re-editing and reconstruction of the film following test screenings, similar to the situation withBrainstorm (1983)and Natalie Wood, causing filmmakers to revise the ending to make it appear like Pleasence""s character wouldn""t survive into the next sequel.In the final boy-gets-girl sequence in the projection booth, the flustered ""detective"" followed the cues of the leading-man actor on the silver-screen and kissed his girlfriend.