Character Relationship Map: Certain Fury

Characters

• Scarlet (played by Tatum O'Neal) — protagonist

  Scarlet is a hardened street kid who supports herself through prostitution and drug dealing. After being accused of killing a client, she escapes custody with Tracy and repeatedly pushes her to keep r...

• Tracy (played by Irene Cara) — protagonist

  Tracy is a doctor's daughter arrested for drug possession and resisting arrest before becoming entangled in the courtroom escape. More compassionate and cautious than Scarlet, she tries to surrender a...

• Sniffer (played by Nicholas Campbell) — supporting

  Sniffer is Scarlet's casual boyfriend, a pornographer and drug dealer whose apartment becomes a temporary refuge for the fugitives. He admits arranging Scarlet's connection with the murdered client, a...

• Lt. Speier (played by George Murdock) — supporting

  Lt. Speier is the police officer directing the pursuit of Scarlet and Tracy after the courtroom shootout. He rejects Dr. Freeman's claim that Tracy was uninvolved, reports the deaths, and later bargai...

• Dr. Freeman (played by Moses Gunn) — supporting

  Dr. Freeman is Tracy's father and a doctor who tries to protect her after the courtroom violence. He unsuccessfully argues to Lt. Speier that Tracy did not participate in the shooting. Later, he joins...

• Rodney (played by Peter Fonda) — supporting

  Rodney is one of Scarlet's boyfriends, but he refuses to help her when she seeks protection and instead slashes her face with a knife. He later cooperates with Lt. Speier in exchange for the release o...

Canonical Relationships

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

• Rodney → Sniffer (Professional Criminal Network Associate)

  Rodney's henchmen go to Sniffer's apartment while pursuing Scarlet and Tracy, and Sniffer later follows the girls to the drug den.

• Rodney → Scarlet (Romantic Boyfriend)

  Scarlet goes to another boyfriend, Rodney, seeking help, but he refuses and slices her face with a knife.

• Lt. Speier → Rodney (Professional Criminal Informant Arrangement)

  Lt. Speier arranges with Rodney that four of Rodney's criminal associates will be released if Rodney helps apprehend Scarlet and Tracy.

• Tracy → Dr. Freeman (Family Daughter)

  The plot identifies Tracy as Dr. Freeman's daughter, and he tries to convince Lt. Speier that she was not involved in the courtroom shooting.

• Scarlet → Sniffer (Romantic Casual Boyfriend)

  Scarlet takes Tracy to the apartment of Sniffer, described as her casual boyfriend, and asks him for shelter.

Story Dynamics

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

• Sniffer → Tracy (Conflict Sexual Threat)

  Sniffer attempts to rape Tracy in the shower, but Tracy fights him off and renders him unconscious.

• Lt. Speier → Tracy (Conflict Pursuer)

  Police pursue Tracy with Scarlet after incorrectly treating both girls as participants in the courtroom shootout.

• Lt. Speier → Scarlet (Conflict Pursuer)

  The police pursue Scarlet after the courtroom shooting, and Lt. Speier later participates in the operation involving Rodney and the newspaper ruse.

• Scarlet → Tracy (Alliance Reluctant Partner)

  After escaping the courtroom, Scarlet and Tracy hide in the sewer, travel together, and repeatedly help each other evade capture.

Story Analysis

Two wrongly pursued women survive violence, betrayal, and institutional pressure before choosing solidarity over separation.

Plot Progression

1. A Courtroom Eruption
2. Flight Beneath The City
3. Shelter Turns Hostile
4. Fire At The Warehouse
5. Freedom And Betrayal