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Burt spends more quality time with his son and buys a sports car. Ernie, although happy for Burt, is mystified by his partner's changed behavior and investigates, discovering the hospital mix-up. However, Burt, determined to get himself killed in his last day on the job, has tracked down the
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call, aware that such events often turn violent. However, it turns out to be a near-deaf elderly couple who were mishearing one another. When the error is revealed, the two happily reconcile. Soon after, Burt learns of a dangerous high-speed
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atop a skyscraper, when Ernie arrives in a helicopter and tells Burt about the hospital's mistake. Burt realizes he is not fatally ill, but it is apparently too late: Stark falls to his death with Burt falling after him.
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heavily-armed cop killer Stark. In the ensuing chase, Stark continually misses Burt with guns and grenades, much to both men's frustration. Eventually the two men are struggling on a window washer's
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