Therefore, he was able to justify the release of the prisoners incarcerated due to the Dent Act, who were denied parole.Anticipating personal assassinations, he thwarted such efforts and conquered much of the land.Realizing that his ambitions outweighed his life-span, he sought immortality through the supernatural powers of a sorceress/witch:Long ago, a mythic battle between good and evil played out in ancient China.] Scottie is seated at the bar in a darkened, red-walled restaurant, stylishly decorated with red and white flowers.Out on the street, as Ethan had predicted, three white-coated men and a female Czech agent (undercover IMF agents) from a pollution control van emerged and climbed the stairs, where they were directed by trench-coated Kittridge to assault the apartment with guns drawn.As he held onto the end of his own gun""s barrel that she was wielding for self-defense, she shot him at point-blank range into the heart, and he crumpled to the floor - dead, but with his eyes momentarily open.