The Island of the Cowards 20
In Cara Island, Keaton and Eric Graves, whose late father was a hotel manager, are soon served some tea by waiter Jonathan. Eric dreams of being a soldier in the Special Air Service. After Keaton and Eric witness alcoholic Mr. Foster harassing waitress Helen, gunshots are heard nearby. Keaton and Eric find an unknown man dead and Detective Rupert heavily wounded at the quay. When they carry Rupert back to the lobby of the hotel, they are surrounded by an armed Polish mafia, whose members are Mr. Herman, Otto and Karol. Having to wait six hours until the sandbar reappears from the tides, the Polish mafia force Keaton, Eric, Rupert, Foster, Jonathan and Helen to a second floor hotel room. Rupert reveals that he intervened when Oscar Neal, a researcher for Lessing Pharmaceuticals, gave the Polish mafia a stolen floppy disk containing a secret asthma cure, but Oscar was shot dead by the Polish mafia, who plan to manufacture and distribute the asthma cure. The Polish mafia take Keaton to the boathouse in order to repair a wrecked boat, while the others stay behind in the hotel room. Using Eric as bait in order to reach the lobby, Foster attempts to shoot the Polish mafia with a revolver, but Herman subdues him. Foster, revealed to be a former colonel, stalls Herman until Keaton smashes through the window and apprehends Herman. With Foster and Rupert still recovering, Keaton hears from Eric about how Foster was a "brave coward". (Source: Wikipedia)
3/2/1999
