] A door shuts.The car parked in front of the beach house pulls away with an unrecognizable driver.In a dissolve, on an almost-deserted, fog-shrouded oceanside pier at Santa Monica, California that same night, an unidentifed, fur-clad woman appears from the dark shadows and walks down to the end of the long pier.After returning home, Murtaugh spoke to Hong, and learned that his uncle, an artist in China, had paid for his passage to America (for a "chance to make good life").I feelyoung...!").Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The second film of the original series.With some of the same characters from the previous film, with some additions.The second, third, and fourth films comprised a loose trilogy.Regarded as one of the best, most-critically acclaimed films in the entire series.No Academy Awards nominations.With a production budget of $11 million, and box-office gross receipts of $79 million (domestic) and $97 million (worldwide).He reported on the "clone army," and his suspicion that bounty hunter Fett was the master assassin.When Obi-Wan described Master Sifo-Dyas"" order for the army (at he request of the Senate almost 10 years earlier), he was told hat the order was never authorized by the Jedi Council.He asked: "You think the Tooth Fairy will be an even bigger story than Lecter? He""s already beaten Lecter""s score.