Midway through the movie, Joyce and her son, Dominic, went out to eat at a restaurant. On Detective Kimble's first day, he had difficult helping one of his students so he asked Joyce to help him out and she did. She taught at the same elementary school where Detective Kimble went undercover as a kindergarten teacher and her son was one of his students. Joyce used to be known under the name Rachel Crisp but changed her name as well as her son's in order to escape from her violent ex-husband, Cullen Crisp, Sr.
Miller, a native of Los Angeles, California portrayed Joyce Palmieri. Schwarzenegger starred in the films, 'End of Days', 'Twins' and 'The Villain'. At the end of the movie, Detective Kimble faced off with Cullen and shot him dead but Cullen's mom arrived and shot Kimble. Kimble fell asleep and had a dream that Cullen shot him dead but he was awoken by a fellow teacher, Joyce. He yelled at them to be quiet but this upset the kids so he went to go get his pet ferret to cheer the kids up.
Kimble stepped outside his classroom for a moment, he came back and noticed the kids had become very rambunctious. Kimble accidentally sat on the classroom piano, which caused the students to laugh. On his first day with his kindergarten class, Mr. Kimble was a detective with a police agency and went undercover as a kindergarten teacher to help locate a drug dealer named Cullen Crisp, Sr. Schwarzenegger, born on July 30th, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria was cast as John Kimble.