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Lt. Robert "Bobby" Pickett is a major antagonist in the 1997 action comedy film Money Talks.

He is a Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department at the rank of Lieutenant but is actually a corrupt policeman working for the main antagonist of the film Raymond Villard.

He was portrayed by the late Paul Gleason, who also portrayed Clarence Beeks in Trading Places and Richard Vernon in The Breakfast Club.

Biography[]

After a prison bus explosion and escape was orchestrated by French criminal Raymond Villard which killed police officers and prisoners and resulting in hustler Franklin Hatchett being framed as an accessory to the crime. Pickett and his partner Detective Williams begin investigating and question Franklin's girlfriend Paula while also wiretapping her phone.

The two cops decide to stake out Paula's apartment in case Franklin shows up and trace a phone call between Paula and Franklin. After tracing his location in Beverly Hills they send units to track him but Franklin soon realizes that the police are combing the city for him and teams up with news reporter James Russell to clear his name.

When Russell and Franklin return to Paula's apartment, Pickett and Williams soon see her lights back on and head to the apartment to arrest Franklin. After breaking the door down they see them going out the window leading to a rooftop chase with Williams shooting at Franklin and Russell as they escape.

Later at the police station, Williams gets an Interpol report on Villard and says that he's wanted in a dozen countries making him an international fugitive. Pickett still suspects Franklin but they later get a videotape from a security camera in a deli. Which results in Russell also being framed and wanted for murder the same way as Franklin.

Franklin later takes the diamonds that Villard had stolen after evading Dubray another French criminal and Villard's enforcer in a car chase while Villard kidnaps Russell at gunpoint. Villard later uses Russell's cell phone to call Franklin demanding the return of his diamonds or Russell will die. Franklin realizing he has no chance on his own calls a mobster named Carmine who he owes money to, Villard and his mercenaries, his childhood friend Aaron and Pickett and Williams telling them to meet him at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at 3:00 am.

As Franklin checks his gun preparing for an ambush, Pickett and Williams show up to point their guns at Franklin demanding that he surrender his weapon. Franklin surrenders his gun but Pickett holsters his sidearm and holds Franklin at gunpoint with his own weapon telling him that backup is on the way and demands the location of the diamonds. This confuses Williams who demands an explanation. Pickett suddenly turns and shoots his own partner in the chest, killing him and sending his body down several rows. Pickett reveals himself to be in league with Villard and accuses Franklin of killing his partner trying to frame him for another murder by holding up Franklin's gun. He again demands where the diamonds are until Villard arrives in a helicopter asking if Pickett has his diamonds. Franklin punches Pickett in the face twice knocking him out and sending him falling down the stairs.

As a shootout occurs between the mercenaries and mobsters. Pickett later recovers from his beating while regaining consciousness where he has a bloody eye and a busted lip. He gets up from where he had fallen which was right next to his partner's corpse. He soon sees Franklin and Carmine walking and shoots at Carmine hitting him in the shoulder. A shootout occurs between Carmine and Pickett resulting in Pickett shooting Carmine in the head, killing him.

Franklin retrieves Carmine's pistol and exchanges gunfire with Pickett. As Pickett and Franklin shoot at each other, Aaron and his fellow henchman arrive and save Franklin by shooting a stadium light fixture behind Pickett with a rocket launcher. The light fixture soon collapses and falls right on top of a screaming Pickett crushing him to death.

In the aftermath, Russell during an exclusive interview for channel 12 news stated through his report that Pickett was a dirty cop who was Villard's inside man which was the reason why he betrayed and killed his partner Williams and that Villard was the leader of a highly sophisticated international smuggling ring and was also responsible for the prison break.

Personality[]

Pickett at first seems to be an ally to his partner Detective Williams and is a first trying to help out Franklin but later reveals himself to be a corrupt cop working for Raymond Villard. During the confrontation at the stadium,he betrays his partner Williams by shooting and killing him using Franklin's gun to frame him. He showed no remorse over killing his partner doing it out of greed so he can accept a bribe from Villard for killing Franklin and getting Villard his diamonds back. His obsession to kill Franklin would lead to his downfall when he dies at the hands of Franklin's friend Aaron who shoots down a stadium light fixture behind him causing it to collapse on top of him and crushing him to death.

Trivia[]

• Before his death, he tries to kill Franklin and get Villard's diamonds back, but his plans failed when he himself is killed by Franklin's friend Aaron after he shoots a rocket launcher at a stadium light fixture behind Pickett which crushes him to death.
• Pickett is later compared to another villain Agent Gradney in Double Take, both characters are corrupted officials in law enforcement who betray and kill their partner and are revealed to be conspiring with the main villain of both films. Daniel Roebuck portrayed both characters Williams and Norville in both films.