The Basic Plot In Five Words or Less: Clint's new partner - a woman!

My Basic Ramblings: In an attempt to understand my fiance a little better, I have decided that I will watch all the Dirty Harry movies. I bought him this big huge honkin' deluxe laser disc set of all the movies for some holiday (Christmas?  Valentine's Day?  Anniversary?  I honestly wish I could remember) and every once in a while I'll say "Throw on whatever movie's next."

Then he throws on the movie, and I say "Is this the one where he says 'Go ahead, make my day'?" and he says no, and I say "Okay" and watch the movie.

Harry Callahan's just being his usual tough self, takin' no crap and handling situations with ease - until his partner dies (all his partners either die or leave the force 'cause they've been shot. Don't they look at his history?). Anyway, this time he gets paired up with Tyne Daly, of Cagney and Lacey fame. (I don't know which one of those two she was. Anyway...) She has this big honkin' purse she carries around, and she's wearing high heels, so of course she's going to be the one hobbling along the streets of San Fransisco (wandering past lots of Volkswagon Beetles for Slug Bugging - a reason I love watching 70's movies - I get to beat up Chris) while Clint gets to do the dramatic jumps over rooftops. Interesting that in this movie he's able to make the jumps, while in In The Line Of Fire, he can't.

Anyway, back to our plot. A bunch of international hippie terrorists kidnap the mayor of San Fran and hole him up on Alcatraz. (Apparently it wasn't a tourist attraction yet - but I wouldn't know, I was 3 when this movie was released.) With slight shades of The Rock (I KNOW, I KNOW, THIS MOVIE CAME FIRST), Clint and Tyne go to the island, shoot at the terrorists, Tyne gets killed, Clint saves the day but is disgusted with all the hypocrisy and bureaucratic crap that he has to put up with.  He has another opportunity to throw his badge into water, like he did at the end of Dirty Harry, but he doesn't.

According to the Internet Movie Database Trivia section, this is the only Dirty Harry movie where he doesn't have a little phrase he repeates twice in the movie. I know that in the first movie it was the whole "six bullets or five, do you feel lucky, punk" bit, but I don't remember what it was for Magnum Force. Anyone know?