It's been three years since the detective started working with Martin Riggs, and in that time, a pattern has definitely been established. Murtaugh has always tried to play things strictly by the book, while Riggs' style of police work might be labeled a bit more... well... spontaneous.

Their latest case is no different. After receiving a hot tip about a major drug syndicate, Murtaugh insists on calling it into the station. Riggs, true to form, is halfway out the door in pursuit. "C'mon, Rog...," he pleads with his partner, "Don't be a killjoy. We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad! this is gonna be great!" And off they go... into an adventure that's almost more than even THEY can handle!

MEL GIBSON and DANNY GLOVER are back as Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh in a Silver Pictures Production of a Richard Donner Film, "Lethal Weapon 2." Directed by RICHARD DONNER and produced by Donner and JOEL SILVER, "Lethal Weapon 2" is the action-packed, humor-filled followup to the 1987 Warner Bros. film which earned an international box-office gross of over $100 million. The film also stars JOE PESCI, JOSS ACKLAND, DERRICK O'CONNOR and PATSY KENSIT. The screenplay is by JEFFREY BOAM and the story is by SHANE BLACK & WARREN MURPHY. STEPHEN GOLDBLATT is the director of photography; J. MICHAEL RIVA is the production designer; and STUART BAIRD is the film editor. The co-producers of "Lethal Weapon 2" are STEVE PERRY and JENNIE LEW TUGEND, and the music for the Warner Bros. release is by MICHAEL KAMEN, ERIC CLAPTON, and DAVID SANBORN.

In "Lethal Weapon 2," Riggs' and Murtaugh's latest official duties also include providing protective custody for Leo Getz (JOE PESCI), a diminutive, troublesome accountant who has utilized his creative gifts by laundering nearly half a billion dollars in narcotics money. The detectives aren't pleased with the prospect of becoming babysitters, and what they don't know yet is that most of the money Leo has laundered comes from the very organization they've been trying to crack. That organization wants Leo dead, and their chief "enforcer," Pieter Vorstedt (DERRICK O'CONNOR), has no qualms about killing anyone who gets in the way, including the two officers assigned to protect Leo.

Leo's information leads Riggs and Murtaugh directly to the head of the syndicate, the icy Arjen Rudd (JOSS ACKLAND), a South African diplomat to the United States. The detectives' unexpected arrival startles not only Rudd, but also his beautiful assistant Rika Van Den Haas (PATSY KENSIT). Although Rika has never had any reason to question her employer's activities, her introduction to the detectives leaves her with some serious doubts, as well as changing allegiances. As for Martin Riggs, his interest in Rika appears to go far beyond her value to the LAPD as a source of information -- in fact, he falls for the first time since his wife's death some years before.

Unfortunately for the police, Rudd is entitled to diplomatic immunity, and arresting him seems impossible.

Unfortunately for Rudd, "impossible" is a word Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh refuse to understand...