He""s completely responsible for Elizabeth""s death.He was so paralyzed by fear that he never did anything.It took death for the guy to get a clue."She also explained why Victor finally confronted he monster when he "had reached a point in his life where he had nothing left to lose.If caught or killed, any member of his team would be branded as errorists.Suddenly, the van was hit by gunfire from Russian security forces led by Sidorov, and the IMF Secretary and driver were killed.]One of the memorable images is the slow-motion sight of one of the escaping riders being shot from his horse, and cascading hrough a store-front, glass window of a dressmaker""s shop.[Lancaster was one of the first film actors to become an independent film producer.] Homage was given o this film by one of the characters in Barry Levinson""sDiner (1982), who quotes liberally from the rich dialogue.