- Tony starts the review process to become New York police commissioner while investigating the disappearance of two of his police officers.
- Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City.
- Police Commissioner Tony Scali is idolized by his police force for his commitment to the job, but despised by those subject to his creative and unorthodox law enforcement tactics. Upon the disappearance of two of his officers, Scali visits the missing cop's wives in an attempt to uncover clues to their whereabouts. Meanwhile, to keep chronic drunk driver Phil Jacobson off the streets, Scali impounds his car while trying to find a way to permanently stop him from driving.
When the missing police cruiser is pulled from the river with the bodies of the two cops inside, Tony calms Officer Stan Kelly, a distraught friend of one of the murdered men. After ordering a thorough examination of the car, Scali sets Kelly off on an investigation to keep him occupied while he pursues the cop killer responsible for the deaths of his men. In the meantime, Jacobson returns to claim his car, but finds it has been completely disassembled and has it returned to him in pieces.
With the murder of another police officer, Scali learns the killer was Carl Slack, an ex-cop whom he personally had discharged from the force. After closing in on him, Scali and Kelly eventually arrest Slack for the three murders. In a test of his ingenuity and compassion, Scali cleverly convinces a man claiming to be a visitor from another planet to go to the hospital for an examination.
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What is the Spanish language plot outline for A Matter of Life or Death: Part 1 (1991)?
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