Eliza Dushku as Megan Paige

Synopsis

Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) is a driven police investigator whose commitment to the job borders on obsession. Her fiancé, Kenneth Shine (Cary Elwes), is also a lieutenant with the Rochester PD. They’re currently working on one of their worst cases yet, the murder and rape of a ten-year-old named Carla Castillo. When Megan puts it together that she was murdered in Churchville, Megan is convinced that they are dealing with a serial killer. She becomes so caught up, she begins to have hallucinations… and a bloody Carla begins to haunt her regularly. When Megan cannot crack the case, it pushes her over the edge. She’s diagnosed with an adult onset of paranoid schizophrenia that finds her in a psychiatric hospital instead of her precinct and to top it off, she breaks off her engagement with Kenneth.

Two years later: Megan regains work for the department, but now in the shadow of her former capacity. Kenneth has been promoted to Captain. Her relief comes from a support group for mental illness survivors and wheelchair-bound friend Richard Ledge (Timothy Hutton).

When another girl, Wendy Walsh is abducted, raped and murdered in Webster, Megan is convinced that the killer has resurfaced and her old fire is reheated. Against his better judgement, Kenneth allows Megan to ride along with investigator Stephen Harper (Tom Malloy), but only in an advisory capacity. However, soon after she is in the thick of things, her old symptoms start coming back, namely in the form of hallucinations of both dead girls now. Ledge tells her that she’s flirting with disaster. Megan knows that the case is in danger of going cold with few leads, no suspects, and a serial killer on the loose. Can she catch him in time? Or will the “Alphabet Killer” go free?

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Other Cast

Martin Donovan (Jim Walsh), Cary Elwes (Kenneth Shine), Michael Ironside (Captain Nathan Norcross), Timothy Hutton (Richard Ledge), Bill Moseley (Carl Tanner), Carl Lumbly (Dr. Ellis Parks), Nate Dushku (Tim), Melissa Leo (Kathy Walsh), Tom Noonan (Captain Gullikson) and Tom Malloy (Stephen Harper).

Movie Details

- Screenplay by Tom Malloy; based on the true ‘Double Initial Killer’ during the early seventies in Rochester, New York
- Directed by Rob Schmidt
- Previously directed Eliza in Wrong Turn (2003)
- Filmed on location in Rochester, NY and Ridgewood, Queens, NYC
- Eliza also served as producer
- Limited release from November 2008 (USA)
- Released on Region 1 DVD January 6, 2009.

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