The Invisible Guest Page #6

Synopsis: Adrián Doria, a wealthy businessman named Man of the Year due to his high-tech company and his trade agreements with the Asian market, meets Virginia Goodman, a veteran lawyer expert in witness preparation and judicial declaration, recommended by Adrián's lawyer Felix Leiva in order to create a credible defense. Arrested by the police in a mountain hotel room with the corpse of his lover at his side, photographer Laura Vidal, Adrián talks Virginia about the crime and his relationship with Laura, revealing that both suffered a car crash where a man called Daniel Garrido died, and how Laura manipulated Adrián to avoid the jail by Daniel's death. At the same time that Félix is looking for a clue that it could change the course of the events, Virginia and Adrián keep talking about the case but her, unconvinced of the Adrián's testimony, forces him to clear the dark points of his history, in a puzzle where the truth and the lie are easily exchangeable.
Director(s): Oriol Paulo
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Year:
2016
106 min
3,733 Views


- It also means I'm screwed.

- Not totally, if you obey me.

Suppose you weren't in the cabin

with your lover that day.

You were in Paris,

as your alibi says.

Laura rented it,

it's only in her name.

So you weren't at the accident

that killed Daniel Garrido.

Hello?

The license plate and the other

evidence is circumstantial.

Therefore, it was Laura

who carried out the plan,

faking that the kid was fleeing

because of embezzlement.

We have to convince the judge that

you were one more of Laura's victims

and you ended up in that hotel room

because she asked you for help.

Perhaps you knew nothing about

Daniel Garrido until that moment

and the father is unjustly

accusing you of his disappearance.

You want to turn me

into Laura's victim?

The only piece we're missing

is a way to link her directly

to Daniel's body.

Tell me one thing.

How will you do it?

Hiding an object of Laura's

in the submerged car.

We have to incriminate only her

in Daniel's disappearance.

Your only crime

will be having

covered it up unwillingly.

Where did you sink it?

We'll inform the police about

the body's location anonymously.

You won't have to admit a thing.

But no body, no crime,

and without a crime,

we can't convince a jury

that Laura's murder

wasn't a crime of passion.

We'll get close enough to the truth

that you don't get burnt.

How can I not get burnt if the

prosecutor holds the trump card?

Hello.

The driver will place me

at the crash scene.

Need any help?

Flix has been looking for

him to neutralize him.

The prosecutor has no witness.

What's that?

No one's seen the judge.

I made it up and adjusted it

in line with

the details you've given me.

Are you kidding me?

Why didn't you tell me

the truth from the start?

To find out if you could get Toms

Garrido to vanish from the room.

I've always known

he was guilty.

And it wasn't hard to find out

that his wife works in the hotel.

Why did you wait

for me to tell you?

To make sure I can put my life

in your hands, Ms. Goodman.

Where did you sink it?

It was here.

I have something else to tell you.

We thought he was dead, I swear.

Laura had taken it so far,

there was no turning back.

If the police found the kid,

the autopsy would give me away.

I had to be sure

you'd help me stop it.

It's my duty to save you from jail,

not from who you are.

Rubbish, Mr. Doria.

And you'll take what I say

because you need me.

The kid was virtually dead, I had

to decide in a split second.

Don't lie to yourself.

You're a murderer!

You're testing me again, right?

So I can handle

the prosecutor's attacks.

What you've said

changes everything.

Now you're on my hands.

You've told me enough.

If I tell the judge this,

you're ruined.

But you can't do that!

You hear me? You can't.

That's what the prosecutor

will look for, your despair.

And look how easy

I got it out of you.

You want to insult me?

Go ahead.

The prosecutor will be

looking for that too,

to bring out the arrogant fool

you have inside.

That's enough!

Aren't you here to defend me?

Then defend me.

I won't let my record be tainted

on my last day.

From now on,

we'll do things my way.

For that I need to be sure

that there are no more loose ends.

- There aren't.

- There aren't?

But I think you're still using me.

Testing your adulterated version

of the facts on me, like I'm a puppet.

Which part doesn't fit?

True, it all could've happened

the way you said.

But what if it wasn't you

who broke the promise

not to meet again, but Laura?

How did you make the police

think Daniel Garrido had fled?

See you in 4 hours in the bar

- in front of the scrapyard.

- Okay.

- Don't be late.

- Okay, yes, I'll be there.

...redirecting small amounts

from his customers

shortly before disappearing.

You could've gotten

the kid's things too.

Adrin, what is all this?

The kid's wallet.

I got it before I put him

in the trunk.

- Put a price on it. - You've always

had the means and contacts

to change the course of events

without leaving a trail.

I'll take care of it.

That's not true.

- You can't prove it.

- Nor you the opposite.

Let's look at it backwards.

Hello.

Wouldn't the pieces fit

if you'd taken the initiative

in all of this?

- What are you doing?

- Calling the police.

Listen, it wasn't our fault,

it was the damn deer.

Are you crazy?

- What if he saw something?

- He didn't.

We have to get rid of him.

What if Laura was the one

dragged into a desperate situation

impossible to control?

According to this medical report,

your lover had acute

anxiety attacks

after her return from

your supposed trip to Paris.

Even someone as heartless

as her can break down.

That's exactly what doesn't fit

for me, Mr. Doria.

That she instigated it all,

would support that you

would've saved that kid.

But you drowned him.

POSSIBLE INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCE

And guilt of it bore down on her,

slowly dragging her down.

Where Adrin Doria just

received the European Award

for Businessman of the Year.

Until she saw there was only

one way to regain her dignity.

She couldn't give those poor

parents their son back...

- My companion was there.

- ... but something she could do

was tell them the truth.

Daniel.

So she arranged to meet them in

the hotel where the mother worked.

An out of the way place

to carry out her plan.

She went to Bierge alone

and crossed the valley.

When she got to the station

by the hotel,

she called you from a public phone

so you wouldn't suspect anything.

Somebody knows something.

She made you believe

the driver had seen something...

Then why answer the phone?

...and had found her

and was blackmailing them.

It was her way of compensating

those poor people for their loss.

She hadn't the courage to confess it

with her hands empty.

Once in the hotel room,

she just had to wait

and put the second part

of her plan in motion.

She programmed a message

into her phone

as a protective measure.

Laura knew you'd

refuse to confess,

because you only care

about one thing:

yourself.

You made sure no one saw you arrive

at the room where Laura was waiting.

But Laura had already crossed

the point of no return.

And when she told you her plan,

you lost your head.

When you got her

programmed message,

you realized that you'd

fallen into her trap.

The reservation's in your name too.

We're going to give

them the money.

We're going to tell them

where you buried their son

and we're going to

turn ourselves in, Adrin.

There's no turning back.

I didn't kill her

and I'll never testify

before a jury. Never.

You killed her and you were trapped

in a room you couldn't escape from.

Hello? Is everything alright?

You thought the message

could be useful to you

and you searched for elements

to back your wild theory.

Police!

Are you alright?

Police!

Fine. You want to play?

Let's play.

Why haven't Toms Garrido

or his wife spoken up?

If Laura was going to tell them

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Oriol Paulo

Oriol Paulo (born 1975 in Barcelona) is a Spanish screenwriter and director. more…

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