The Watcher
2000 · 96 MIN · IMDB 5.3 · 28,995 VOTES · DIR. Joe Charbanic
Overview
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.
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00:04:04 * Dead, I'm the one exterminating son *
00:08:06 This will be fun.
00:15:51 Well, you got half the block taped off, and you got what
00:19:02 I assume he's still strangling young women with piano wire.
00:21:30 Mike, we got several sets of prints off the FedEx envelope and the photo itself.
00:24:38 Yes.
00:28:33 Thank you.
00:30:19 but he's sending pictures now.
00:32:08 police still have not located the anonymous woman...
00:34:52 and turn on the television, that someone will recognize this young woman.
00:36:47 That was it.
00:40:09 Do you know this woman?
00:43:00 She has a cat named Frank. Apparently, he doesn't watch the news.
00:46:59 I'm standing outside the apartment of Ellie Buckner
00:50:54 See if they can tell us something about this section of sidewalk.
00:53:28 Hey, Dad. Dad, it's me. Don't you recognize me?
00:55:57 - You wanna kill me, sweetie? - Come on, get on.
00:58:26 - Hey, hey. Stop, stop. - But I didn't do anything!
01:09:57 Besides, I don't have that many patients yet, so I really can't afford to lose one.
01:15:06 Hi, Joel.
01:17:39 Well, fine.
01:21:12 Give me a second. Give me a second.
01:25:34 Sit down.
01:28:59 Get out of here.