Carla (Sudden Death)

Carla (Faith Minton) is a member of the group of terrorists led by Joshua Foss (Powers Booth), former CIA operative. Foss' plan is to take over Pittsburgh Civic Arena during Stanley Cup Finals, plant bombs all around it and kidnap U.S. Vice President who is about to attend the game. They will use hostages to ransom U.S. government to wire them billions of dollars from several off-shore bank accounts and after that they will escape, blowing Arena and killing all in the process. The Arena's fire marshal Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme), whose two children are also in Arena watching the game, will try to stop them, defuse the bombs and save the hostages.

The story[]

We first see Carla standing among the other terrorists while they silently preparing for their task.

Carla2 — "You owe me a Mother's Day card!"

Her assignment is to wear giant penguin costume during the game, posing as a mascot of Pittsburgh Penguins, one of the teams in the finals (other terrorists also posed as a various employees in the Arena). She killed original performer offscreen to take her costume (McCord found performer's body later in the movie hidden in the closet and with a bullet hole in her head). She kidnapped McCord's little daughter Emily after the girl accidentally stumbled on a body of another female employee in the Arena's restroom, who Carla killed to prevent her to blow her cover. Carla took Emily to the elevator and shoots Secret Service agent who is guarding it. Once inside the elevator, she removes her penguin mask and finishes off the agent with her silenced gun. She then tried to shoot Emily but her gun is empty, so she took her to the owner's box where Foss and his henchmen are already keeping under guard Vice President and his entourage. After Emily told Foss that her father will looking for her, Foss told Carla to go downstairs and find him. One of the henchmen throws her a new magazine of munition and she left.

In the Arena's kitchen McCord desperately looking for Emily when Carla, with a penguin mask again on her head, appears out of elevator. She introduced herself and said she is a replacement for performer who got sick. McCord noticed Emily's baseball cap on elevator floor behind Carla and bent down to reach for it. Carla took the opportunity and pulled put a gun to shoot him. Noticing that, McCord reacted quickly and kicked her in the chest. A violent fight broke out between the two, during which Carla was more dominant, giving him a number of heavy blows.

The turning point came when she started strangling him with her bare hands, pushing his head over a deep fryer full of boiling oil. He managed to remove her left hand from his neck and pushed it into the hot oil, burning her severely. She screamed painfully but managed to hit him few more times and dominate him again. Seeing her eyes inside penguin mascot's beak, he pushed a bottle of hot peppers in it, blinding her temporarily. He kicked her hard several times in the chest and the blows threw her on the dishwasher, turning the system for pulling dishes into the washer on. The system first pulled her mask off her head, revealing her heavily bloodied face. A strip from the mask wrapped around her neck and began to choke her, dragging her entire body into the dishwasher. Screaming in agony, Carla disappeared into the machine. Her dead body came out on the other side, her face full of bruises but with blood washed away from it.

The appearance[]

She is a very tall woman in her late thirties, with dark curly hair and a rough male-like face, adorned with a larger nose and full lips. She is very strong and skilled in martial arts, as can be seen from the fact that during most of the fight with McCord she was superior and that he could not beat her only with strength, but had to use tricks. It should be borne in mind that the awkward costume no doubt hindered her movements, but also softened many of his blows.

The character[]

She is ruthless killer, which can be seen from her participation in an endeavor in which many people would be killed, as well as from the fact that she personally killed three people, two of whom were helpless women.

Another witness to her character is her resistance to pain, as she continued to fight despite painful injuries such as burnt arm or a cut on her head from a fan into which he pushed it.

In the end, what makes her particularly disgusting and her brutal end well deserved is the fact that she was willing to mercilessly kill the child, which was prevented only by the empty magazine of her gun.