Devil Page #4

Synopsis: In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.
Director(s): John Erick Dowdle
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG-13
Year:
2010
80 min
$33,583,175
Website
4,370 Views


Spray that in here, you're

gonna blind all of us.

I'll do it.

Seriously, put it down.

Lady...

Dwight, where are you? You gotta

stop disappearing, seriously.

Dwight.

Hang on a sec.

Dwight, you gotta get us in that

car right now. Where are you?

I can't.

Dwight, I need you to stay on walkie!

Man...

Can you see this?

Huh? You see this?

"Use by October 21, 1987."

She was scared. Relax.

She tried to

pepper spray me, man!

Dwight, where are you?

We're being saved.

Dwight, where are you?

Come on, pick up.

Pick up!

They hear something.

They hear your guy

moving in the shaft.

Then how come

he's not answering?

Dwight? Dwight, this is serious.

You need to pick up, Dwight.

Thank you!

Pick up, Dwight. Pick up.

Oh, no.

No, no. Hey! Hey! Hey! Oh, no. Hey!

Hey! You all right?

Hey!

Come on.

Come on! Hey!

Dwight, where the hell

are you, man? Come on!

What floor did Dwight

enter the shaft from?

He entered from the roof.

What are they looking at?

Dwight. Dwight, pick up.

Looks like he fell. He's impaled

right on top of the elevator.

Hurt real bad.

Possibly dead.

Hey, Bowden, I think the

people in the elevator

can hear our radios.

Yeah, that's confirmed.

Can you switch

to channel eight?

The car's stuck on 21.

Markowitz, tell the Fire

Department looks like they have to

go through the wall on 21.

This is Lustig. You can't

just go through the wall.

Sure we can.

That's why you

have insurance.

Fire command,

go to eight, please.

There she is.

Sarah Caraway.

We know the security temp

is Benjamin Larson

and we know McCormick.

What other names

are unaccounted for?

Jane something. Looks like

"Kowski. " The older woman.

Find me footage

of this guy.

This way, ma'am.

Let's go.

All clear.

Okay, this time slow.

You gotta be kidding me.

Did she just steal

that lady's wallet?

So Vince was a scam artist,

this woman Jane's a thief,

Sarah there is a liar

and our guard is a thug.

Quite the crew

we have here.

I still haven't

seen this guy here.

What was that?

It's okay.

Hard drive crash.

I got it.

Number 2.

Here we go.

Any other angle

on the lobby?

Just the main entrance.

There.

Okay, rewind back.

Faster.

There he is. Stop it.

Where's that satchel?

He doesn't... There's no

satchel in the elevator.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Sh*t.

Oh, no.

What's happening?

I can't take this anymore!

Don't come near me,

any of you!

Maybe, if I could

just check the wiring...

What the hell's going on?

Please.

Please turn on the light.

Turn on the lights!

That's it.

Shut down the building.

Bring everyone

down to the lobby.

Nobody comes

in or out but us.

Which guy do you think

is doing this?

There are three people in

there and they're all capable.

Well, she's not doing it.

I'm ruling nobody out.

Fire Department wants to know

if you have a shut-off valve

before they get through

the wall, just in case.

Yeah, it's

in the basement.

I'll go.

They're bad people,

that's why they're here.

No, two of them are here because

they just got on the wrong elevator.

Yeah, and I just happened

to have the wrong job

and you just happened to

take the wrong call.

He never

does this in secret.

There's a reason

we're the audience.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold on, hold on.

No one's getting in

this building right now.

I know. I'm supposed to

meet somebody upstairs.

You're gonna have to call them

and tell them you can't make it.

Can you just tell me

what's happening?

He always

kills the last victim

in front of

the person they love most

to make cynics of us all.

No, no, no.

Don't touch her.

I'm not gonna leave her

just hanging there.

Where you gonna put her?

I haven't

thought that far ahead.

Funny how all this

stuff starts happening

right after you

start working here.

Seems to me,

you're the only one

who knew where

the cables are.

What are you doing?

Trying to

close her eyes.

That doesn't work, not until

they're dead for a few hours.

Okay, you enter the

building with a satchel.

You see a sign-in desk you

wanna avoid. Where do you go?

Restroom.

Yep.

Got it.

Could those be used

to rig an elevator?

I have no idea, but he doesn't

sign in and then he hides these?

What the hell is that?

I wish he'd stop.

I don't even know your name.

I'm Ben.

I'm Sarah.

I'm Tony.

So where'd your

claustrophobia go?

Excuse me?

I've never seen claustrophobia

come and go like that.

You trying to say something?

Then say it. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, I'm saying

I didn't do this,

and I very much doubt that

she did, so that leaves you.

I'm saying I think this

claustrophobia thing...

I think it's an act.

Yeah, I'm saying

I think you're a liar.

Kill him, Ben!

Kill him

before he kills us!

Kill him!

Stop it! Stop!

Stop it! Get us out!

Get us out! Get us out!

Back away from each other now! Get off!

We're gonna keep you safe

and here's how,

everyone get to a corner and

place your hands on the wall

so everyone can see that

you're not up to anything.

Go ahead. Do it!

You won't have to

keep this up long.

The building is

surrounded by police.

In a hypothetical conversation

that I'm not really having,

how would this

story of yours end?

They all die.

That's it?

Yeah.

This is not

your fault.

They made the choices

that brought them here.

Hey. You're gonna love this.

What have you got?

She has

a criminal record, too.

Three counts of blackmailing

rich married men.

Now where this

gets interesting,

is couple of years ago, the

arrests stopped. Guess why.

Tell me.

Well, her name is

Sarah Caraway.

"Caraway" Caraway?

Yeah. She married into the family.

So she shoplifted an heir.

Yeah, something

like that, I guess.

What's she doing here?

According to

the sign-in sheet,

she was gonna see a lawyer

on 42 named Wayne Kazan.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Hey, listen up!

Quiet down! Quiet down!

Hey, quiet!

Philadelphia P. D!

I'm looking for

a Wayne Kazan.

Is there a Wayne Kazan

down here?

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Heads up. Did you have a meeting

today with a Sarah Caraway?

I don't know.

Do you have a subpoena?

Come on,

you can tell me that much.

I might have. Why?

She was attacked. Who

has motive to hurt her?

Well, you know I can't

divulge personal information.

Come on, man.

Give me something.

Give me something

to work with here.

I'm trying to save

your client's life.

Come here.

I guess I'd do what

you guys normally do

and start with

the person closest to her.

Thanks.

And just so you know,

my specialty is

forensic accounting.

Markowitz, get Mrs. Caraway's

husband on the phone.

Should be okay now.

All right, get in there.

I might have found the

problem. It's a bad wire.

Looks like it could be

shorting out the circuits.

Okay.

Easy. Easy.

That's it.

Yeah, I'm fine.

Vasquez, we're gonna need

the large Target saw up here

as fast as you can bring it.

Look, we need two

more on 21, okay, guys?

Any luck getting

hold of the husband?

No, not yet.

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