Earl Talbot Blake is the main antagonist of the 1991 action-crime thriller film Ricochet, played by John Lithgow. He is a notorious criminal, whom rookie cop Nick Styles put in jail in 1984, causing the latter to developed an obsessive and spiteful hatred towards Nick, as well as becoming his most greatest foe. Seven years later, after learning that Nick is now an Assistant District Attorney, Blake, along with his right-hand man Kim, escapes from prison to get revenge on Nick by trying to turn his life into a nightmarish living hell.