| “ | The boy... is mine! He's my boy! You get your own goddamn family! | „ |
| ~ Cullen Crisp's last words before his death. |
Cullen Crisp is the main antagonist in the 1990 live action film Kindergarten Cop.
He was portrayed by Richard Tyson, who also played Buddy Revell in Three O'Clock High.
Personality[]
Cruel, ruthless, sadistic, and egomaniacally vain, Cullen Crisp was scum in every sense of the word. He showed no remorse for his crimes; not even for placing innocent children in danger by setting their school on fire. Though he claimed to love Dominic (whom he originally named Cullen Jr. in honor of his ego), he clearly saw the boy only as his property and nothing else, even willing to threaten his very life just to keep John Kimble at bay. He was also a major factor in John losing his family and why his son wishes not to see him.
Biography[]
Crisp is a drug dealer who has been on the run from police detective John Kimble for five years. He has an ex-wife named Rachel Myatt Crisp, who works at Astoria Elementary School under the name of Joyce Palmieri, and has a son named Dominic who he no longer sees. Crisp also has a devious mother named Eleanor Crisp.
Crisp is constantly searching for Rachel and Dominic, who left him long ago after discovering his true nature as a devious criminal. It is believed that when Rachel left Crisp, she stole millions of dollars from him but this is later revealed to be a lie spread by Crisp to incite the underworld to find her for him. Crisp receives information regarding Rachel's whereabouts from an informant before murdering him. A young female drug addict named Cindy is the only witness to the crime, but she refuses to testify, and so John is sent to find Rachel and persuade her to testify instead in order for Crisp to receive a full prison sentence.
John and his new partner Detective Phoebe O'Hara go to Astoria to search for Rachel, with O'Hara planning to act as a substitute teacher in Astoria Elementary School's kindergarten class. After she falls ill, John is forced to take her place and meets the young pupils in the class, including Dominic. He also meets Rachel since she is also a teacher at the school, and although he is at first unaware of her true identity, they quickly become very fond of each other.
Meanwhile, Crisp's mother Eleanor provides Cindy with spiked cocaine that kills her and the case against Crisp is then dismissed since no other evidence exists. Crisp is then released from prison and then he and Eleanor then go straight to Astoria Elementary School using the information he received from the informant, under the alias Mr. Green, eventually locating Rachel, Dominic, and John in one of the classrooms.
Crisp sets the school library on fire and while everyone is fleeing, he abducts Dominic and escapes with him. He is spotted though by John's students and the detective gives chase, while Crisp attempts to convince Dominic that he is his father. As John Kimble arrives, Crisp - feeling cornered and without options - snaps and uses his own son as a hostage. He orders Kimble to put down his gun, admitting that he's losing it. Crisp calms slightly once Kimble puts down the gun, but is aggravated when Kimble says "just let the boy go now". He replies in a shaken state "The boy is mine! He's my boy. You get your own goddamn family". He pulls out his revolver and prepares to kill Kimble, but at that moment the pet ferret that Dominic had rescued during the fire alarm climbs up and bites his father in the neck. In pain, Crisp shoots John in the knee, but John instantly grabs his gun and fires three shots into Crisp's chest, killing him.
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