Blue Steel (Blu-ray)

Blue Steel is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.

Rookie NYPD officer Megan Turner shoots a robber dead with her service revolver while he is holding up a neighborhood supermarket. The robber's gun falls to the ground and lands near commodities trader Eugene Hunt, one of the customers taken hostage. Hunt takes the gun and slips away. Because the weapon was not found at the scene and the other witnesses are unclear about seeing a handgun, Turner is accused of killing an unarmed man and is subsequently suspended.

Hunt uses the gun to commit random killings. At the scene of the first murder, he leaves behind a spent cartridge case on which he has carved Turner's name. Hunt soon begins hearing voices telling him he is unique and to kill again. Meanwhile, while attempting to clear her name with Assistant Chief Stanley Hoyt and her superiors, Turner begins dating Hunt, unaware that he has become obsessed with her. One night at his apartment, Hunt reveals to Turner that he was at the supermarket robbery, that he took the gun and that he is the person behind the recent killings. Turner arrests him but he is freed by his attorney, Mel Dawson, due to a lack of evidence.

Turner fights to keep her badge and solve the murders with the help of Detective Nick Mann. While she tries to unwind with her best friend Tracy Perez, Hunt arrives at her apartment and mortally wounds Tracy before rendering Turner unconscious with a blow to the head and then burying the gun in a park. Turner regains consciousness and goes to Hunt's apartment with Mann to arrest him, but Dawson prevents her from doing so by contending that she did not actually see his face.

Seeking comfort from her mother Shirley, Turner visits her family home, an uncomfortable place because her father Frank physically abused her mother throughout her childhood. After arriving there, she finds that her mother is bruised. Enraged, Turner handcuffs Frank and arrests him. During the drive, they stop and talk in an attempt to put an end to his abuse. When they return to the house, Hunt is posing as a guest sitting with her mother. An exchange takes place between the two, where they both imply that they are armed. When he leaves, she goes to his apartment and spends the night staking him out.