Shutter Island Page #4

Synopsis: It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: Paramount Studios
  9 wins & 62 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2010
138 min
$125,001,000
Website
27,604 Views


watch out!

Jesus!

Come on! Let's go back!

Jesus Christ!

damn it!

- Are you okay boss?

- Yes. that's all right.

So ... you think Laeddis is here ...

What are you going to do boss?

I'm not here to kill Leaddis.

If it were my wife

I'd kill him twice.

When we got through the gates of Dachau,

the SS guards surrendered.

The commander tried to kill himself

before we got there ...

but he botched it

took him an hour to die

When I went outside,

I saw bodies on the ground.

too many to count

too many to imagine.

so yeah

The guards surrendered, we took,

their guns, lined them up ...

I wasn't warfair,

it was murder.

I'm tired of killing.

That's not why I'm here

So what is it all about?

After Laeddis vanished,

I started doing some checking

on Ashecliffe.

lot of people knew about this place, but no

one wants to talk ...

like they're scared of something

you know this place is funded by

special grants

from the house of

American activities Committee .

Great. And how exactly are we fighting

the countries from an island in Boston Harbor?

by conducting experiments on the mind

at least that's my guess

And you think thats going on in here?

As I said, nobody's talking, right?

Until I found someone

who used to be a patient here.

Guy's name George Noyce.

nice college kid.

Socialist.

He got an offer to get some money for some psych study. Guess what they were testing.

- drug tests.

- He started seeing dragons everywhere.

Almost beat his proffesor to death

End up appearing in Ashecliffe.

Ward C.

They released him after 1 year, right?

What does he do?

Two weeks on a mainland

he walks into a bar and stabs three men to death

His lawyer pleads insanity,

but Noyce ...

stands up in the courtroom and

he begs the judge,

for the electric chair,

anywhere but not a

mental hospital.

Judge give him life in the Dedham prison.

- And you have you found him?

- Yes, I've found him.

he's a mess

But it is pretty clear from what he tells me,

they're experimenting on people here.

I do not know, boss.

- I don not believe a crazy

- That's the beauty of it.

crazy people are a perfect subject.

they talk, but nobody listened.

I stood in Dachau.

we saw what human beings are capable

of doing to each other, right?

for Christ sake we fought a goddamn war

to stop them,

and now find out it may be happening here?

On our land?

No.

What are you really here to do, Teddy?

I'm here to get the proof.

I'm gonna go back and blow

the lid off this place.

That's it

wait a minute.

You started asking around about Ashecliffe.

waiting for a chance to get out here

then suddenly they need a US marshall?

I got lucky. a patient escaped ,

it was the perfect excuse.

No, no, no boss.

Luck doesn't work that way.

The world doesn't work that way.

They got electric fence around a septic facility.

Ward C is inside a Civil War fort?

A chief of staff with ties to the SS

Funding from HUAC?

Jesus Christ! Everything in this place

stinks "government ops"

- What If they wanted you here?

- bullshit.

- Ask questions.

- Nonsense.

bullshit? Where is Rachel Soalndo?

Where is one shred of evidence that she even existed?

I had to know where

that will give me any. In any case.............

While you were looking at that neighbourhood,

they're looking at you

All they need to do

is making a fake escape to get you here

And now they have you.

they have us both,here, now.

Marshall, are you here?.

.Please signal us, this is deputy warden McPherson.

marshall!.

How about that? They found us.

It's an island, boss. They'll always find us.

. I know you are in there ...

We get out of this f***ing island.

You and me.

Come on!

- Come on!

- Go!

get dry off

Dr. Cawley wants to talk to you. Now!

And hurry up, this thing is transforming

to a goddamn hurricane!

I dopped those suits to be cleaned.

It should be ready by tomorrow.

If we don't all wash away first

speaking of which, I'm afraid your smoke were

pretty much done for

So ...

It's our only choice, right?

that's something really nice in prison already

that ...................

Now that you mention it, it is just fine.

that's why i must repeat my insistence

that all ward C patients

be placed in manual restrains,

If the facility floods, they'll drown

you know that

- That would take a lot of flooding.

- We are on an island,

in the middle of the ocean,

during a hurricane.

A lot of flooding seems like a

distinct possibility

It's a gamble, Steven.

say the power fails

there's a backup generators.

and if htat goes? The cell doors

will open

Where are they to go?

They can't just hop a ferry, scoot over

to the mainland over a weak havoc.

You're right. Probably responsible

recovery right here on us..

If they're manacled to the floor, they die

you can't live with that, can you?

frankly, if it were up to me

, i'd put all 42 in ward A and B in

manual restrains as well

Excuse me

Excuse me

- marshall.

- I'm sorry, I have one quick question.

Yes, I will be with you in a moment.

When we spoke this morning about Rachel Solando's note

the law of 4, I loved that.

you told me you had no idea what

that second line could refer to

Who's 67?

Yes, I'm afraid I still do not know.

None of us knows.

Nothing comes to mind.

Nothing?

Because I believed i just heard

you say that there are

And 42 of patients, in wards A and B

which would mean there are

That's correct, yes.

Then it seems that

Rachel Solando was suggesting

you have a 67th paient, doctor

- But I'm afraid we don't.

- This Is ridiculous.

- What are you doing here?

- We are doing our goddamn job.

Didn't McPherson tell you the good news?

No, what's the good news, doctor?

Rachel has been found.

It's here.

Safe and sound

There is not a mark on her.

Who are these men?

Why are they in my home?

Police officers, Rachel.

They ... have a few questions.

Ma'am.

There's been a sighting of a known

Communist

subversive in this area

passing out literature

Here?

In this neighborhood?

Yes, I'm afraid so.

If you have tell us what you have done yesterday, where you were,

it'll help us narrow our search.

Yes ...

Well, I ...

I made breakfast for Jim

and the children,

and then I ...

I packed Jim's lunch

and he left.

Then I sent the children off to school.

And then ...

I decided to take a long swim in the lake.

I see...

And after that?

After that ...

I thought of you.

I ... I'm sorry, ma'am.

I do not know what you talking about.

Don't you know how lonely I've been, Jim?

You're gone ...

You're dead.

I cry every night.

How am I supposed to survive?

God.

Rachel ... it will be all right.

I'm so sorry, but ...

everything will be all right? Okay?

I buried you

I buried an empty basket . Your body

was nothing but blood and chunke of....,

eaten by sharks.

My jim is dead,

So who the f*** are you?

who the f*** are you?

Who are you? Who are you?

I'm sorry about that

I didn't wanted to interrupt, I thought

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Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and an executive producer. She has written scripts for Alexander, Night Watch, Pathfinder and Shutter Island. more…

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