Antoine Fouchet was a French drug kingpin who seizes $100 million worth of heroin stolen from Miami Police Department headquarters, intending to sell the products. He serves as the main antagonist of Bad Boys. Fouchet is portrayed by Tcheky Karyo.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Fouchet originates from France. Most of his early life is unknown besides becoming a drug kingpin.
Miami Heroin Operation[]
Fouchet has led an entire team of his henchmen (consisting of Casper, Ferguson, Kuni, Noah Trafficante and Eddie Dominguez) into an operation of robbing stashed heroin from police headquarters. On the way, he fatally shoots a member out of the truck as a distraction point for police since the member was a decoy. In the headquarters, Fouchet successfully seized the heroin.
Search for Julie[]
The next time involving him, Fouchet meets Maxine Logan, who is hired as an escort by Fouchet's associate Eddie Dominguez. Fouchet is skeptical about Dominguez bringing "outsiders". While politely comforting her, he asks her to turn around. He grabs a pillow and shields it so he can shoot her in the back and kill her. He then shoots Dominguez in the kneecaps and has his henchman Ferguson finish him off. The whole murder act is witnessed by Julie Mott, who barely manages escape from death. Fouchet finds her wallet, containing her ID and orders his men to find her residence to kill her.
Fouchet's heroin operation is under investigation by detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, who are protecting Julie from Fouchet. Fouchet wants to find her as she is the only witness who to the murder of her best friend and Dominguez.
At Club Hell, his henchmen sees Julie on the dance floor. Julie, seeing Fouchet who is viewing her from the head office, pulls out a registered gun and as she pulls the trigger, Mike thwarts her attempt. She fails to kill Fouchet but the gun goes off and alerts everyone, leading to the evacuation of the club.
The following day Mike, Marcus and Julie follow Fouchet's chemist to the ship where Fouchet is hiding his drugs. He sees them spying on them and tasks his henchman to find their location.
The next day, he and his henchman go to Mike's apartment residendce. Mike, Marcus, Julie and Marcus' wife Theresa are present in the lobby. He and his men pull out akimbo weapons and opens fire at the cop duo while ransacking the lobby and after a hail of gunfire, kidnaps Julie and escapes.
Fouchet later calls Mike and reveals that he'll be keeping Julie for 4 hours until he makes his deal, he also reveals that he killed his chemist for luring the police to their hideout and warns him that if they interrupt his drug deal he will kill Julie.
With Julie in their hands, the Miami Police Department are hatching a plan to get Julie back and the heroin, while being threatened of shutting down the narcotics division. The next day, Fouchet arranges a deal with a mobster who he attempts to sell the drugs to. The deal is interrupted by the Miami police, who drive a garbage truck into the warehouse where the deal is held and Julie is held captive at. Believing that the mobster is the informant of the raid, Fouchet shoots him in the heart, killing him. A massive shootout breaks through and many of the henchmen are killed. During the shootout, he sees Julie and when he tries to shoot her, Marcus saves her but is injured from a gunshot to the leg. Fouchet enters a sports car and while driving, Mike tries to strangle him, but to no avail, also receiving a gunshot to the shoulder.
Fouchet nearly escapes but Mike, Marcus and Julie are in hot pursuit. Fouchet immediately crashes his car after Marcus bumps him. Fouchet makes one last time to escape but Mike incapacitates him with gunshot to the leg. Fouchet, finished, gloads Mike into shooting him and Mike nearly complies, as an act of revenge for Max, until Marcus convinces him to stop. Fouchet pulls out a gun, aiming for Marcus, but Mike sees the reflection, spins around and shoots Fouchet several times in the chest, killing him and avenging Max's death.
Death[]
A wounded Fouchet pulls out a secret gun and aims it at a distracted Marcus Burnett while he was talking to Mike Lowrey. Mike, upon seeing the gun's shadow on Marcus' forehead, pulls his gun, turns around and fires several shots into Fouchet's chest, causing him to drop his gun and die.
Trivia[]
- At most times, the movie will take a serious turn whenever Fouchet is onscreen, as he is the most violent and evil villain in the series.
- Fouchet is the last member of his group to be killed and the last person in the film to die.
- Unlike his successors, Hector Tapia and Isabel Aretas, who at least loved their children, Fouchet does not have any redeeming qualities and doesn't care for anybody except for himself.