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Along Came A Spider is a 2001 American mystery film. The film stars Morgan Freeman and Monica Potter, and it was directed by Lee Tamahori. The story was adapted by Marc Moss from a James Patterson novel.

Cast

Plot

Jill Teed is an undercover officer on assignment to bring down Jim, a wanted man for multiple sexual assault charges and murder. Jill is in the car with the man while being followed by Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman), a police detective and forensic pathologist, that has also followed the case. He is dictating what to say to Jill as she tries to make him confess on tape. Jim finds Jill's earpiece while attempting to force her into performing fellatio on him. After a short fight, Jim is killed. The car spins out of control flying over the ledge only hanging on by wires. Jim flies out because he wasn't wearing a seat belt. Teri is still in the car as help arrives. Alex tells Teri to hold on. After short lived attempts to hold the car in place, the weight buckles. Teri drops to her death.

Six months later: Megan Rose, a senator's daughter, is being dropped off at her school. She meets up with Secret Service Agent Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), the agent assigned to protect her. In Mr. Soneji's class (Michael Wincott), it is seen that Megan is using a code to contact an admirer, Dimitri Starodubov, the son of the Russian President. Mr. Soneji tells Megan to see him in his office and accusses her of plagarism. She denies it and is soon being drugged by her teacher. She passes out. Another teacher enters the room. Soneji tells her that she just collapsed. Soneji strangles her to death. Jezzie notices that Megan is not at lunch. She is told by a classmate that she's with Mr. Soneji. Jezzie goes to look for her as Megan is being stuufed into a container that looks like tower computers next to each other on the outside. Soneji makes his way outside and into his van at the same time Jezzie finds the dead teacher. Jezzie tells security to lockdown, Ben Divine runs out to the parking lot, but Soneji gets away.

The newsflash hits every news station as Alex Cross keep changing the channels. Alex receives a call from Gary Soneji, his voice distorted. Gary is revealed to be on a small boat. Alex records the call and sees if he could find an edge to what Someji is after. Gary quotes a saying from a book, then hints that there's something for Alex in his mailbox. Alex goes outside to find one of Megan's shoes. Alex arrives at the Rose residence and makes a smooth entrance. He meets up with Secret Service Agent Ollie McArthur, the head of the case. Ollie asks Alex if he knew why Sonjei picked him. Alex has no idea. Alex is introduced to Rose's parents.

Alex starts his initial investigation at the crime scene. He soon starts finding clues left behind by Soneji (a missing picture and Charles Lindbergh). Alex finds out Soneji's address which is later raided by the F.B.I.. At Soneji's house, Alex finds a book with the same quote Soneji told him during his phone call: "They say that when I die, the case will die. It will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close." The last words of Bruno Hauptmann. Bruno Hauptmann committed "The Crime of the Century" when he was sole person involved with the Lindbergh kidnapping. Alex's hypothesis is that Gary Soneji is trying to do the same thing, commit the Crime of the Century.

Later, Alex and Jezzie converse into "why Megan?" Alex concludes that "Senator Hank Rose is no Charles Lindbergh." Alex asks Jezzie if she knows "who's a bigger fish than Hank Rose?" Alex and Jezzie decide to have a steak out outside Dimitri Starodubov's residence. Via computer, Soneji is able to communicate with Dimitri posing as Megan convincing him to escape the cameras and come outside to a phone booth. Dimitri falls for the trap. As Soneji walks up to Dimitri, Alex and Jezzie intervene. After some exchanged gunfire, Soneji fleas. Back at the boat, Soneji goes to open the door to the compartment Megan is being held in. He opens the door and to his disbelief, Megan is gone.

Back at the Roses, Soneji calls to make a demand for ten million dollars in diamonds. Alex is put in charge running around Washington D.C. trying to keep up with Soneji's demands. On a train, Alex shoots a window open to make the exchange with Soneji outside. Alex can only look out of the train's window as Soneji leaves the scene. At Jezzie's house, the door knocks. Jezzie answers it only to be electricuted by Soneji. Alex is told he can't kill him because he'll never find Megan. Soneji reveals that he killed his parents when he was fifteen. Alex congratulates Soneji on a well earned twelve million. Soneji doesn't flinch. Soneji wants Alex to tell him what is in Soneji's mind. After being disappointed, Soneji starts to leave threatening to take Jezzie with him. Alex shoots Soneji dead. The Roses blame Alex for killing the only man who knew where their daughter is.

Alex is reviewing the tapes from the original kidnapping. He times himself tracing Ben Divine's steps. Alex tells Ollie that Divine could have shut the whole place down in the office instead of chasing Soneji. Ollie concures that Divine was in on it with Soneji. Alex says that Soneji worked alone and that Divine was following Soneji's movements. "Soneji was hoodwinked. And so were we." At a farm house, Divine is revealed to be holding Megan now. Jezzie comes in and makes it look like she's putting Divine under arrest. She later gives and kisses Divine. She is revealed to be a villain. It is revealed that they were responsible for the diamonds demand. In greed, Jezzie kills Divine. Alex is at Jezzie's house and is trying to get into Jezzie's system. He remembers her talking about the card game Aces & Eights, so he uses that phrase as a password, it works. Alex finds out that Jezzie was in on the whole time as well, he sees the address to a farm house.

At the farm house, Jezzie uses her relationship with Megan as an advantage so Megan can open the door she herself set up in order for Divine not to come in and kill her. Megan asks Jezzie why is she alone. Jezzie orders her to open the door. Megan backs away hiding. Jezzie shoots through the wall multiple times until she runs out of bullets. Megan sees a whole and goes through it running through the farm only to be captured by Alex. He tells her to be quiet. Alex confronts Jezzie. Jezzie and Alex have some words. Jezzie asks if he'll kill another partner. Alex states that she was not his partner. After Jezzie points the gun at him, Alex shoots her in the lung. She dies within minutes. Alex asks Megan if she's okay. Alex obliges when asked to take her back to her parents.

Trivia

  • The prologue scene where Jill dies is similar to that of Cliffhanger

External links

2001 films | Mystery films | Crime films | Films based on mystery books

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