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| “ | I'm with you. We're the same, you and me. We're the same, don't you see? | „ |
| ~ Nick siding with William Foster, believing he is also a bigot. |
Nick is a major antagonist in Falling Down. He is a surplus store owner who turns out to be a xenophobic and homophobic neo-Nazi.
He was portrayed by the late Frederic Forrest.
Biography[]
Nick is one of the many people that William Foster came across. Foster stopped at his shop to buy himself a new pair of shoes. Nick talked to Foster whilst insulting a pair of gay men, causing the two to leave the store in anger. Foster then saw a police car arriving at where he was, so he hides in one of the changing rooms. Detective Sandra Torres walked in and asked Nick that she was looking for a man in his late 40s, with a white shirt and tie and carrying a gym bag full of guns. Surprisingly, Nick hides Foster in a dressing room and pushes the bag away with his foot, telling Torres that he didn't see a person matching said description, all the while annoyingly addressing her as "officer-ess".
Nick then shows Foster his private stash. This stash was of Nazi paraphernalia such as a used canister of Zyklon-B, poisonous cyanide gas, which was used to kill numerous people during the Holocaust, especially Jews. He also wondered how many Jews one little can take out. Nick then offers Foster his rocket launcher, then congratulates him for shooting up the Whammyburger restaurant, having heard about the said incident via a police scanner. Nick reveals his hatred towards black people thinking the employees were nothing but a "buncha f****n' n****rs" when he thought it was nice looking white kids on TV. Then he assumes Foster shares his Neo-Nazi views. Foster, however, was sickened by Nick and his beliefs and claimed that Nick is sick.
Angered, Nick pulls out a Taurus PT92 pistol, a copy of the famous Beretta 92F, and threatened Foster. Nick then searches his bag, he notices a snow globe for the latter's daughter, which he deems to be "f***t s***", before destroying it. This pushes Foster over the edge. Nick then unsuccessfully attempts to handcuff Foster, telling him that he will take him to the police, but only after fantasizing about Foster being raped by a black man. When he cuffs one of Foster's hands, he then demands the other one, saying "give it to me" repeatedly. While doing so, Foster stabs him with a hidden butterfly knife. Nick realizes that the knife isn't his, then stares at a nearby mirror. Foster proclaims to Nick about whether or not it's good to "exercise your rights", before shooting and killing the latter with his own gun in cold blood.
Nick's body was later found stuffed inside his own display case by Foster.
Personality[]
Though many of the people that William Foster came across are simply regular dicks or bullies, Nick is one that can most certainly be considered a villainous one, and one of the few completely villainous people in the movie, alongside the Latino gang members. He is a xenophobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic surplus store owner who is a fanatical admirer of Hitler. He is also fond of military items, given the kind of shop he owns. Moreover, he seems to hold misogynistic views, as he asks weirdly to Torres why female officers aren't addressed as "officeresses".
When he first meets Foster, he was friendly and praising of him, thinking he was a vigilante against minorities and homosexuals. But when the latter reveals he is anything but that, he turns incredibly wrathful and hostile, brutalizing him. He also turns out to be perverted, as he fantasizes about Foster getting gang-raped in prison.
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Trivia[]
- Nick destroying the snowglobe is what caused Foster to go from troubled yet sympathetic to homicidal as the following phone call to his ex-wife is much darker and threatening than previous ones, and with the snow globe gone, Foster only has dark reasons for returning home now.