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Homicide (1991)
In the film Homicide, Bobby Gould re-emerges as ‘Bobby Gold’, a secular Jewish detective who is reluctantly taken off the pursuit of a black fugitive, Randolph, to investigate the murder of an elderly Jewish shopkeeper, Mrs Klein. After her granddaughter overhears Gold deliver a shocking anti-Semitic tirade he is suddenly shamed into acknowledging his self-hatred, and thereafter he commits himself disastrously to helping a mysterious group of Jewish freedom fighters, for whom he commits an act of terrorism only for them to blackmail him as a result. Meanwhile his dereliction of duty leads to the death at Randolph’s hands of his colleague and greatest friend, Sullivan.