Shallow Ground Page #2

Synopsis: A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): Sheldon Wilson
Production: Deco Filmworks
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
2004
97 min
18 Views


Uh,

I'm talking to test some blood samples,

you can tell me if it's human or animal.

Thanks for a lot of confidence, Jack.

But, uh, qualified medics.

Besides, I don't

really have any equipment.

Improvise.

It's important.

Why do it haste, Jack?

I can't really say.

I'm getting out of here, am I, Jack?

All right, meet me at the camp site

and see what I can do.

Stuart is already underway.

Harvey.

Do you think you can

get on the radio,

checking whenever you can,

see you've seen or heard anything?

All right, yeah.

Stay in here.

So I think it's such a night, sir.

An op is too specific,

we have the boy.

No sympathetic in anyway.

You got a deal.

- Where are the walkies?

- Packed up like everything else.

Where are you going?

He left a lot of blood I get to see

it leads to anywhere.

You want me to

come in today, were you?

We're just going to leave.

Is it going to work?

- This came from one person?

- Off one person.

As far as I can tell,

the blood of three humans.

What the hell is going on?

I don't know. But whatever it is,

it's just going to have a lot of work.

Jesus Christ!

What the hell is that?

Help! Help me.

Hang on.

Mary.

Mary mix, this is Har.

Yeah, yeah.

Sergean, have you seen

anything out of your records?

Someone, help!

Let me alone.

Help me, Jack.

What the f*** is going on?

God dammit, come out

and show yourself.

Help me, Jack.

Charlie, Jay.

All right. All right.

Have you seen anything

out on your way?

Listen, look. Now, you at least

see some odd kind of characters?

Those just like me.

Ray? Ray?

Can you hear me?

Oh, can you hear me?

Oh.

I-I turn your off.

Now I get it very nice.

The blood came from

at least three people.

Jesus!

Did you hear what I just said?

The blood of this case came from

more than one person,

at least three people

if not more.

- You doubly sure?

- Pretty damned sure, yeah.

Where is Jack?

He doubts, try

to track of his trail.

Now where are you going?

Jack should know about it,

don't you think? I mean

there was a sh*t load of blood.

- Who knows what the hell the kis's done?

- City boy!

You're just going

to get yourself lost.

Besides, I need you

to fingerprints on Jack.

Why can you do it?

You're scared to mark him?

Are you going to do it or not?

Where are the cards?

I'd like to get this

to discuss the part of you.

Because children or not, you're going

to pay for whatever you've done here.

You see,

people get tired of

failing kids like you.

He doesn't care the sh*t how sad

your story is.

On the search, figure it out or not.

What the hell are you doing in there?

What the hell happened?

Stuart shot him, for no reason,

like he was nothing.

I can't seem to make her understand.

I saw the things she does.

I saw their faces,

I heard them beg for her life.

He had his comments.

Jesus Christ, Stuart.

This is Harvey, for God sake.

Jack, listen to me.

The boy show me it all.

You guys have no idea the sh*t he's done.

He had to pay.

Come to the side,

so that I figure out

what's the hell just going on here.

Jesus Christ, listen to me.

- You have done exactly the same sh*t!

- Shut up, Stuart.

Someone out there.

Here are the boy's prints

you have?

Yeah.

"MATCH FOUND"

There must be something wrong

with the system.

Just settle something again.

Second thoughts.

Get Ray on the phone,

tell him that we have up here.

You and I need a long talk.

- Hey, Russel.

- Ray, it's Laura.

Laura, I just have to call you in.

Is Stuart Dempsey up there with you now?

Yeah. Yeah, he's here.

Right, we got him

in the situation.

The kid showed up this morning,

naked, coverd in blood.

Laura, now you listen to me

very carefully.

You stay the hell away from him.

You have no ideal what you're dealing with.

I don't understand, hon.

It's just a boy, right?

Mark for Christ sake, do not let him

touch you, he's not what he seems.

Ray?

Ray?

Ray, I just found another 2 bodies.

That makes 36 so far.

What the hell is going on?

I don't know.

My daughter wait right now, I gotta go.

Ray.

I'm not doing sh*t, you hear me?

I want to know

who else is out there.

If you don't want such talk,

you know, the only way is to

watch speaking your life.

- Let go off him, Jack.

- Get out of here, Laura.

Come on, Jack

get away from him, now.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

You just want to scare of that,

now what you want to do,

- what do you think you want?

- Do not touch him, Jacky,

since he said

not to let him touch you.

Who?

Some killings happen in here.

- Who are?

- Ray, on the phone.

He was trying to warn me about the boy

when the line went dead.

Hey, guys.

- We need to look at this.

- Not now, Stuart.

Every person we need fingerprint

report, they all missing

a hundred miles from here.

Let see here's the real kicker.

If you put all the faces together,

it looks a lot like a boy in there.

It doen't make sense.

This is not sensible times, Jack.

Jack, no.

Ray said stay away from him.

You don't have any idea what it feels

like to have your strike open.

and slowly sewn back

while you were still alive?

What it feels like

to be dried up.

and every stream of blood

slowly drained from your body?

I still be alive

but you hadn't let me, Jack.

Amy?

Stop. I'll do whatever

you want me to do.

Please stop.

Aah-a-a-ah!

What?

What did happened?

I think it's not Stuart.

How can he let us out?

Darby Owens to Sheriff Sheppard.

Jack, it's Darby.

Are you out there?

Listen, Jack. I don't know

if you can hear me.

Maybe your power is out too, but...

I took another look at the sample

you sent me earlier, and...

somehow it has been dead

for a long time.

Some time up to years.

Jack, I'm getting ready

to get out of here.

So if I don't hear from you,

I'm going to stop by the station

on my way out.

Over!

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

I didn't think I hate any place

more than I already did,

My boy, am I wrong?

I'm going to get as far away

from here as possible, man.

You're not seriously think you are leaving and not now.

F***ing ass, Jack.

'Cause you are smart and you did exactly the same thing.

You killed the man, Stuart.

It's gonna to be questioned.

You're goddamn right!

It's going to be questioned.

But what else can you

believe the answer, Jack?

Christ! You ain't see it yourself...

like silly copy of that cell in there.

Amy and the others

sent that boy here for a reason.

You're going to help me or I'm going

to lock you in your cell again.

You're going to get a lot worst,

it worked better in there.

I see that's pretty much

a guarantee.

- Do you hear that?

- On our way.

I'm going to get out

and test the power transformer.

Okay, stay here still we get back.

We're gonna be sitting in the dark soon

if we don't have the power back on.

It is not a good idea to be out there

alone now, right?

Just wait until we go together.

He hit a kid.

He ran out in front of the bus

like we are nothing.

Right. I can't understand.

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