Character Relationship Map: Predator 2

Characters

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (played by Danny Glover) — protagonist
• Peter Keyes (played by Gary Busey) — supporting
• Danny Archuleta (played by Rubén Blades) — supporting

  Harrigan’s partner, killed by a Predator.

• Jerry Lambert (played by Bill Paxton) — supporting

  Harrigan’s new partner, a humorous detective.

• Leona Cantrell (played by María Conchita Alonso) — supporting

  Harrigan’s colleague, a police detective.

• The Predator (played by Kevin Peter Hall) — supporting
• King Willie (played by Calvin Lockhart) — supporting

  A Jamaican gang leader who talks with Harrigan about the hunter.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan → Peter Keyes (Professional Counterpart) — They represent separate law-enforcement operations pursuing the same killings.

  Peter Keyes is introduced as the leader of a task force investigating the cartels, while Harrigan leads the local police response.

• Danny Archuleta → Jerry Lambert (Professional Colleague) — They belong to the same investigative unit.

  Both Danny and Lambert are members of Harrigan's police team, although the plot does not show them directly working together.

• Leona Cantrell → Danny Archuleta (Professional Colleague) — They work together as detectives on the same police team.

  Leona and Danny enter the Colombian hideout with Harrigan and participate in the investigation of the slaughtered gang members.

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan → Leona Cantrell (Professional Colleague) — They are police colleagues working on the same investigation.

  Leona Cantrell enters the Colombian hideout with Harrigan and later travels with Jerry Lambert while investigating the slaughterhouse lead.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• King Willie → The Predator (Conflict Supernatural Adversary) — Willie recognizes the Predator as a deadly enemy but cannot survive the encounter.

  King Willie describes the killer as supernatural and says he should prepare for battle; the Predator then kills him and takes his head as a trophy.

• King Willie → Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Narrative Informant) — King Willie provides Harrigan with a warning about the unknown hunter.

  Harrigan meets King Willie to seek information about Danny's killer, and Willie explains that he believes the killer is supernatural.

• Jerry Lambert → The Predator (Conflict Victim And Killer) — Lambert becomes one of the Predator's trophies.

  The Predator ambushes Lambert on the subway and later claims his head while Harrigan arrives.

• Leona Cantrell → The Predator (Conflict Survivor And Threat) — Leona survives a direct encounter because the Predator refuses to kill her.

  The Predator ambushes Leona and Lambert on the subway, kills Lambert and passengers, but spares Leona after its scanners indicate that she is pregnant...

• Danny Archuleta → The Predator (Conflict Victim And Killer) — Danny's death intensifies Harrigan's pursuit of the Predator.

  Danny returns alone to the crime scene, finds one of the Predator's spear tips, and is killed by the creature.

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan → The Predator (Conflict Arch Enemy) — Their escalating pursuit and final duel drive the central conflict.

  After Danny is killed, Harrigan vows to stop his killer, repeatedly pursues the Predator, and ultimately kills it aboard its hidden spacecraft.

• Peter Keyes → The Predator (Conflict Hunter And Target) — Keyes attempts to capture the Predator, which kills him during the trap.

  Keyes reveals that the creature is an extraterrestrial hunter and leads a trap designed to capture it for study.

• Leona Cantrell → Jerry Lambert (Alliance Traveling Partner) — They conduct the warehouse investigation together.

  Leona Cantrell and Jerry Lambert take the subway to the warehouse district to investigate the slaughterhouse lead.

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan → Jerry Lambert (Alliance Teammate) — Lambert becomes part of Harrigan's investigative unit.

  Jerry Lambert is introduced as the newest member of Harrigan's team, and he later investigates the warehouse district with Leona.

• Lieutenant Mike Harrigan → Danny Archuleta (Alliance Teammate) — Harrigan and Danny work together as police detectives investigating the killings.

  Danny Archuleta enters the Colombian hideout with Harrigan and Leona Cantrell, and he later investigates the crime scene connected to the Predator.

Story Analysis

A determined Los Angeles lieutenant follows a ritualistic alien hunter from cartel massacres to a final battle beneath the city.

Plot Progression

1. Blood Over Los Angeles — A heat wave and cartel war create the violent setting. Harrigan discovers that the Colombian massacre is connected to an unseen, extraordinarily capable killer.
2. A Pattern Of Trophies — Similar massacres draw Harrigan's team into a widening investigation. Danny's death and the impossible spear tip transform the case into a personal and unexplained threat.
3. Warnings From The Shadows — King Willie offers a supernatural interpretation of the killings before becoming another victim. A slaughterhouse lead brings Harrigan's team into direct danger.
4. The Hunter Unmasked — The subway attack kills Lambert and reveals the Predator's selective hunting behavior. Keyes explains the creature's alien technology and attempts to capture it.
5. A Duel Beyond Earth — The capture operation collapses, Keyes is killed, and Harrigan fights the Predator across the rooftops and into its spacecraft. Harrigan wins, receives a strange trophy, and foresees the hunters' retu...