Jack W. Forrest Jr.

Jack W. Forrest Jr. was the main protagonist of the 1988 film Maniac Cop, and a minor protagonist in the sequel, Maniac Cop 2.  A patrolman for the NYPD, Forrest found himself being framed for a series of killings he didn't commit, and thus had to clear his name of wrongdoing caused by Matthew 'Matt' Cordell, who was responsible for the killings, including his wife, Ellen. He was portrayed by Bruce Campbell, who is known for playing Ashley 'Ash' Williams of the Evil Dead trilogy.
==Biography==
Very little is known about Forrest's life prior to the events of Maniac Cop.  All that is known is that he had a father named Jack W. Forrest Sr, and at some point, got married to a woman named Ellen.  For unknown reasons, however, their marriage had begun to falter, which they tried to save by attending therapy, which Ellen dropped out of.  Because of problems in their marriage, Jack began to have an affair with an officer in Vice Squad, Theresa Mallory, which he would often cheat on behind Ellen's back, telling her that he was doing overtime when he was secretly meeting with Theresa at a motor inn.
===Maniac Cop===
At some point, Theresa had leaked to fellow officer Sally Noland about her affair with Jack. Working with her brain-damaged lover, Matthew 'Matt' Cordell, Sally began making several phone calls to Ellen whenever he left the apartment, giving her the belief that Jack was committing various murders which were happening at night. Eventually, Ellen began to believe that her husband could be indeed behind the murders, and after getting another call from Sally, decided to tail Jack while he was walking away from their apartment building. There, she followed him to a motor inn where she caught him cheating on her with Theresa. Shocked and angered about this, Ellen refused to hear another word from her husband and rushed out of the motel room. As she was on her way home, upset over what she just saw, Cordell emerged from a parked car and pulled her in, slitting her throat, before he placed her body on the bed of the motel room Jack was in. This drew the attention of Captain Ripley, who called Jack out of role call and revealed to him about his wife's death. Due to his presence within the motel room, Ripley very quickly made the case that Jack was the one responsible for her murder, and had him charged with her murder, as well as three prior murders that Cordell had committed.
Jack was later interrogated by Captain Ripley and Lieutenant Detective Frank McCrae, who believed that Jack had followed Ellen out of the apartment and killed her, before his lawyer arrived and dismissed the two. Jack admitted that he had a witness who was there, and didn't want her brought in unless there was no other way. He decided that if the real killer wasn't found by the end of the week, he would name his witness, even if it meant her career would be ruined.
Jack was later visited by McCrae, who wanted to see if he could get Jack to spill the beans since it would be likely that his witness would soon be killed, since without a witness, Jack would have no way to defend himself in court. McCrae had speculated that the reason Jack was picked by the killer was because he was getting information from inside the police department, and was using that to his advantage to throw the NYPD off his trail. Jack quickly gave up his witness as Theresa, who was working on the Vice Squad and was on duty at the night.
When Frank later learned that Sally was working with Cordell to have Jack framed so he could get closer to murdering high officials among the police department, he later held an interrogation for Jack alongside Theresa, where he revealed his belief that Cordell was still alive and was killing innocent people, which he was going to prove by attending an appointment with Dr. Gruber of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, which was where Cordell was imprisoned due to getting too close to corruption involving the police department, and supposedly killed. After McCrae had left the interrogation room to enter the information room, Cordell attacked the station, and murdered every unnamed police officer, and later attacked Sally Noland and McCrae. Jack and Theresa rushed out of the interrogation room, and found the bodies. Jack told Theresa that they needed to locate McCrae, and told her to get in his car, and if they weren't out within 5 minutes, she would need to hot wire the car. Soon after, Cordell, who was slamming McCrae against numerous cabinet drawers, threw him out of the 6th floor window to his death, landing on top of a taxi cab. Jack arrived at the scene, only for Cordell to not be present there, and disappointed in McCrae's demise, knowing now that proving his innocence was all up to him. Immediately after, Detective Lovejoy surprised him and demanded him to surrender, where Jack pleaded his innocence, which Lovejoy denied, believing that Jack had broken out of his cell and killed everyone within the station. Lovejoy tried to pick up the phone to call for backup, only to scream at the corpse of Sally, who Cordell had killed by slamming against the wall repeatedly. Jack then knocked Lovejoy out with a punch and reclaimed his gun. He rushed downstairs and immediately ordered two other officers to lay down on the ground as he and Theresa rushed out and caught a train, deciding to keep McCrae's appointment at Sing Sing.
Posing as McCrae, Jack and Theresa entered Dr. Gruber's office at Sing Sing, where they learned that Cordell wasn't actually dead, and was showing faint signs of life, and out of pity, released Cordell in Sally's care, writing his death certificate due to major brain damage he suffered that would render him unable to function as a regular human being. After Jack made a sarcastic whip, Gruber demanded them to leave, which lead to Jack and Theresa heading to the Commissioner's office in hopes of informing him about Cordell's intentions to kill him. Jack instructed Theresa to go in and inform them since he would be shot on sight due to being framed for the killings. Theresa, unfortunately, was unsuccessful as Captain Ripley and Commissioner Pike refused to believe her and had her arrested, all the while leaving to attend the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Before they could enter the elevator to go downstairs, Cordell appeared behind them and stabbed them to death. Cordell would soon knife the police officer that was left to arrest Theresa, and tried to attack her.
Wondering what was going on, Jack looked up at the building. His presence was noticed by multiple officers standing outside the building, and they quickly rushed to have him arrested, putting him in handcuffs and in the back of the police van. Right after the doors of the back of the van were closed, Cordell appeared and hijacked the van, driving it all the way back to Pier 14, with Theresa and another officer in a hot pursuit. Once in Pier 14, Cordell acquired an axe and started to destroy the lock on the doors, intending to chop up Jack with the axe. Taking his chance, Jack rushed through the doors and fell. Cordell grabbed him, where Jack saw his face for the first time. Before he could be killed, Cordell threw him into Theresa who had arrived with a shotgun, allowing her to free him from the handcuffs with keys. Cordell picked up the shotgun, intending to shoot them dead, before the other officer appeared, who was killed with a shotgun blast. Jack kicked the shotgun away before Cordell would knock him down to the ground and throw him to the back of the van. Hearing police sirens, Cordell proceeded to enter the driver's seat of the van to avoid police backup. Jack quickly got up and clung onto the side of the van, distracting Cordell through grabbing his neck, trying to grab the steering wheel, and punching him in the face. This made Cordell drive into a suspended pipe, which impaled him, and lose control of the van, causing it to crash into the river and sink. Jack swam out of the river, and was present later with other officers as the van was fished out, although Cordell managed to escape. Because of his actions, Jack was then put on suspension, although his name would be cleared of any charges.
==== Maniac Cop 2 ====
With their suspensions finally lifted, Jack and Theresa were told to undergo a psychiatric evaluation under Officer Susan Riley. Theresa was certain that Cordell was still alive and out there, but Jack tried to hush this, as he needed his job and wanted to continue onward with his life.
Later, Forrest walked down to a nearby newspaper stand run by Harry Bergman, a blind man who chuckled about Forrest being a celebrity. He inspected a newspaper and decided to take a dozen of them with him paying $5 for the collection. Unbeknownst to him, Matt Cordell was walking down the street, his baton stick in hand, before unsheathing the sword from its place. As Forrest was getting started on reading about himself in the paper, Cordell came up behind him and stabbed him through the back of his neck, impaling the paper and destroying half of it in the process. Harry immediately screamed for police, as he heard Forrest's muffled groans for help. Forrest's body was later placed in the coroner's office, where Detective Sean McKinney questioned Mallory if she was responsible for his death.
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