With a kiss, obviously! Through the bars of two NYPD holding cells. Very spoilery (my review is here).
Walter Lilley did not kill himself; he was killed by crooked cop Earl Mahler (the man in the black SUV who has been following Nicole). Walter worked at the NYPD evidence depository and had been letting Earl inside to steal narcotics, but wanted out; Bobby Jenkins was on his way to hear Walter’s confession when Earl killed Walter.
Nicole and Milo fall in love again, a situation sealed when he rescues her from Irene’s goons Dwight and Gary, who are holding her in a strip club — Milo’s actions remind Nicole of how he used to be when they first met.
Milo calls an ex-colleague on the force and discover Bobby is on his way to the depository. It’s the middle of the night, but he’s working a double shift as the depository is moving to new premises and hundreds of thousands of items are being inventoried. At the depository Earl is stuffing packets of drugs into a bag.
Milo and Nicole wait outside for Bobby to arrive, and Nicole explains her arrest to Milo: though she was arrested for assaulting a police officer, actually her car lightly grazed a police horse.
Bobby arrives; Earl affects concern, asking him if he got his message about the missing drugs. Milo and Nicole go in. Bobby tells Earl to put the bag down but he blusters and then shoots Bobby. Milo and Nicole hear gunshots and rush upstairs, finding Bobby injured. He tells them he’s been tracking Earl, who murdered Walter.
Milo goes after Earl, searching the facility, gun at the ready, while Nicole stays with Bobby. Earl grabs Milo from behind holding him at gunpoint. Nicole sees what’s happening and steals a gun from an evidence box labelled Gotti. Earl calls her a little girl and she shoots it into the air; the distraction gives Milo time to overpower him. Outside, Bobby is given medical treatment and Nicole apologises to him for thinking he was in on it.
Stewart calls her to tells her it’s over as he recovers from his horse tranquiliser, injected on Irene’s say-so by a racecourse vet.
Driving off in Milo’s car, Nicole wants to file her story before they go home together; Milo acknowledges she’s doing her job, and that now they are back together both of them will sometimes have to put their jobs first.
He then shocks Nicole by taking her to the police station so he can pocket his $5,000. She uses her only phone call to call in her story to the newspaper and is then put in the women’s holding cell. Milo walks outside and sees the policeman who insulted him at the start of the movie. He punches the cop, knowing he’ll be thrown in a cell next to Nicole, and is taken straight back inside. He’s placed in the men’s holding cell — they kiss through the bars and he reminds her it’s their anniversary.
Who is everyone?
Nicole Hurley: a reporter on the New York Post, who used to be married to Milo, a cop. She’s investigating the apparent suicide of Walter Lilley, who dived off the side of a New York building to his death. A black SUV was spotted at the scene with fake plates. She is on bail for assaulting a policeman, but when she jumps bail to look for her missing source Jimmy, a warrant is put out for her.
Milo Boyd: an ex-cop, and Nicole’s ex-husband, fired for dereliction of duty and now working as a bounty hunter. Milo is down on his luck and owes $11,000 to a bookmaker called Irene.
Walter Lilley: he worked at the evidence depository and had been allowing access to dodgy cop Earl Mahler, who was stealing drugs from it. He wants to come clean but in the time it takes Bobby to get to him to hear his confession, he has been killed by Earl.
Sid: owns the bail enforcement business that Milo works for. When Nicole jumps bail to track down Jimmy, he tasks Milo with bringing her in for $5k, a job Milo is overjoyed to be given.
Bobby Jenkins: Milo’s best friend, also a cop, and the man who introduced Milo to Nicole. He walked Nicole down the aisle on their wedding day and is still helping get Milo out of trouble. Nicole starts to believe he is mixed up in Walter’s murder, as he signed the report calling Lilley’s death a suicide.
Jimmy: one of Nicole’s sources. After offering information to Nicole he is kidnapped by Earl and held captive at the Blue Ink Tattoo Parlour. Nicole later rescues him after pretending she wants a huge tattoo, also finding a photo of Earl and Bobby Jenkins on the premises, bolstering her view that he had something to do with the crimes she is investigating.
Earl Mahler: A crooked cop. He used Walter as a way in to the narcotics section of the depository, and stole drugs from there to sell on. He then killed Walter. He kidnapped Jimmy to stop him talking to Nicole, and later chases down Nicole and Milo, shooting at them, before escaping by carjacking another vehicle. He’s finally apprehended by Milo in the depository, after shooting Bobby.
Stewart: Nicole’s colleague. He’s in love with her and thinks they are a couple after they made out once at a party. He pursues Nicole relentlessly, for romantic and work purposes.
Dwight and Gary: the enforcers for Irene, a middle-aged bookmaker to whom Milo owes £11,000. Gary finds Stewart sniffing around Milo’s car, and brings him in, thinking he’s Milo. They later hide in Milo’s car outside the tattoo parlour, holding Nicole at gunpoint when she and Jimmy get in. They take her to a strip club next door, telling Milo by phone that they need their money. Milo rescues her, rekindling her attraction to him.
Dawn and Edmund: proprietors of the Cupid’s Cabin. Milo and Nicole spent their honeymoon night there, and they revisit it after Bobby calls and tells them to lie low. On arriving it turns out the owners still consider the pair to be the most in-love couple they have ever had as guests. That evening they share their regrets over dinner; they talk of a mistake but it turns out while Milo feels their divorce was a mistake, Nicole thinks their marriage was. Later Nicole overhears Milo telling Sid on the phone that even if they sleep together he is still bringing her in for the bail money. She waits until he is asleep and handcuffs him to the ornate carved bedstead, then leaves in his car, heading to the tattoo parlour, where she frees Jimmy. (Milo tries to follow her having ripped the bedstead off, and is then unceremoniously evicted from the hotel and told not to come back.)
Kitty Hurley: Nicole’s mother, and a wealthy hotelier in Atlantic City. Fancies Milo. Don’t we all!
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