David Harris

David Harris

Background

David Harris is a script writer in Hollywood, California. He is in a relationship with Susan Malone.

During the events of Destroyer (1988) played by Clayton Rohner

Susan wakes up David, who was the priest in her dream, and rips off the newspaper clippings from the wall David had collected about the Ivan Moser case. David comforts her and tells her it was just a dream. As David and Susan arrive at the penitentiary, The Cabbie, stops David and asks him to drop off a package for him. When David asks him why he wouldn't bring the package in, The Cabbie tells him he won't go inside the penitentiary since the riot. David picks up the package, which happens to be a dummy of Sharon Fox. He tells Susan a story about conjoined twins who were sentenced to death when one murdered the other one's husband for having an affair with her twin. As they are making their way inside the prison, Susan and David see Russell and Russell comments how much the dummy resembles Sharon. They walk into the main office while Tommy is making a xerox of his face. Tommy sees the dummy and asks, just as Russell did, if it is anatomically correct. Sharon continues to be difficult on set and when she criticizes Actor for touching her too much, he comments on her promiscuity. She calls David a pervert for writing the film and Warden Karsh walks onto the set and tells Sharon he liked her other film and she calls this film crap. Karsh walks up to David and tells him he knows he has been asking questions about the prison riot. Karsh then warns David to stop asking questions.

David brings the dummy to Rewire and almost burns the script when he places it on the arm of the still working electric chair. Rewire shows David, Ivan's boot he found from when Ivan was electrocuted. After Susan's jump a group of the staff rate her jump, including David and Boomer claps for her. While shooting the scene where the dummy is electrocuted, the dummy is melted by the electrical current and the power goes out, locking everyone inside the prison. Rewire tells David, someone will have to go into the boiler room to reset the power. David and Susan go down towards the boiler room, and David accidentally falls into the sewer. Russell finds them and helps David out. He tells David, the hole he was in was called Moser's Hole and was made by Karsh to hold Ivan. David and Susan have sex in the shower and afterwards, David asks Susan to marry him, but she resists. While at The Kitchen with the rest of the crew, Susan is mistaken for Sharon by Bea. When Woman in Diner hears that Susan was in The Thirty Foot Bride of Satan, she repeats the word Satan. Bea calls over to Fingers and tells David and Susan that Fingers was the executioner for Ivan's electrocution.

David asks Fingers what the real cause of the riot was and Fingers tells him he caused a power outage by using too much power to electrocute Ivan and Ivan is half-alive. Fingers then tells David that Russell is Ivan's father. David leaves The Kitchen and tries to catch a ride with The Cabbie to the prison, but The Cabbie initially refuses. He arrives at the prison, but can't open the front door. David uses explosives he finds to blow open the front gate. He sees Ivan and thinks he is a cop and Ivan attacks him and crushes his hand with a vice before knocking him unconscious. Susan finds David and they get into Karsh's convertible. Ivan attacks them and throws David out of the car and Susan crashes it into barrels of gasoline. David tries to run over Ivan with Callahan's motorcycle, but fails. He is then brought to a hospital where he is in a coma.