Shadow Death (2025)

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It's time to go to hospital.

Oh, okay.

I'll be right there.

That's fine.

Thanks.

All right, everything's fine.

I have your new medication.

It's gonna work out very well.

Doing exactly the way I wanted it to.

These drugs are gonna make you better.

Welcome to Emerson Community Hospital.

I'm really happy to have you here.

I am personally happy to be

associated with this place.

I am, Dr. Cromwell

and I have been here for many, many years,

probably about 40 years now.

And I have been working with

the people here that I enjoy.

I've also been working individually

and we come out with creative

ideas that are quite exciting.

I think you'll be hearing about them.

Eventually it will be on the

real news where it's like,

wow, they've accomplished that.

And here you are at the

grassroots of the whole thing.

And we have a lot of people

that are highly trained.

I mean, I myself have

been a medical doctor

for quite a few years

and I don't limit myself

to just one thing.

I want you to know we are here

for the people of Emerson.

We love the people here.

We love the hospital.

We love that we go together

and accomplish things that

are really impressive.

You're gonna expect something good.

You can expect the best and

you will not be disappointed.

Walter, Exhibit A's food is ready.

There we go.

Thank you Dr. Cromwell.

Dinner time.

I got your slop.

Oh, you got energy today, big man.

Oh, looks like somebody took

all their medicine today,

didn't you?

Good boy.

Walter?

Vega, Exhibit A has escaped.

I've gotta get some drugs to

counteract the effect of it.

I want you to get back to the house

as soon as you can, all right?

Hey, Nathan, are you

done with your break?

Yes, ma'am.

I know we're closing, but

we have just one more delivery

- to do, okay?

- Yeah

All right then, come.

I have it all ready for you.

It is one large pepperoni pizza,

and I also put in two extra packets

of Parmesan cheese in there.

And the address is 566 Hillman Avenue.

And then that'll be it.

And I'll just see you tomorrow.

Okay, thank you.

- I'm gonna close up shop.

- Thank you.

- Good night.

- Good night.

This is so take your time, man.

You got me in some of this mess, huh?

- Drug trafficking?

- Yeah, that was genius.

Oh man, I mean, robbing

convenience stores and stuff.

It's not panning out obviously.

Well, you don't like

our new luxury suite here.

I'm gonna go for you.

Why don't we like, why don't we like

become drug traffickers,

you know, like Scarface?

'Cause it worked out well for him.

Well, he made a lot of money though.

You wanna go out with the bang?

All right, man.

I guess we ain't got nothing

left to lose at this point.

No, we got time.

I'm gonna go grab a coffee.

- I'll get the car.

- Yeah.

And now I have something

to make you excited.

I am going to introduce you to Vega.

Come on in.

This is my assistant.

And you're gonna love her as much as I do.

She is something that

I couldn't do without.

You ask for it to be

done, she has it done.

She has been helpful to me.

She feeds me ideas that

I never even thought of.

And we work together.

We make a good team as far

as our work ethics are true.

I want to get out here.

It's so boring.

You know this town, it never changes.

Ah, gum?

Donut?

I'm okay.

Put there for later.

Anybody here?

Can I get some coffee?

We're closed.

Okay.

We closed.

I'm looking for my friend.

I'm trying to find him.

Slug.

Can I help you, sir, kind sir?

I told you not to mix with the locals.

I'm from here.

He doesn't know me that well.

He's like, come on man.

I can't find the car.

It's gone.

Car's gone.

Do you want me to call 911, sir?

Can I make that phone call too?

Can make the phone call.

Come on, let's go.

Nice meeting you.

That was fun.

I'll see you later.

Okay, bye.

- Clap me hug, okay?

- All right.

Because I work here.

Don't take too long, okay?

Bye.

- Bye.

I think you have it.

- I got it.

- Come on, man.

Let's hurry up, come on.

Gimme some change, man.

I'm always paying.

What?

Come on, you gotta be...

- Gimme some change.

I don't have any change.

All right, yeah, come on here.

You wrote this.

Just call the number, man.

It's time.

Okay.

Paul, hey, Slug and I, we're in town.

What do you mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

I got it, I got it.

Okay, right.

- Good?

- Let's hope so.

Let's do this.

Let's go.

These guys are leading us to Vox.

Oh, well, we have

several families to donate.

It's rather expensive wings.

So we got several people

and they actually want to be anonymous.

They do not want publicity.

They just want to contribute to mankind.

Hello.

Yes.

You didn't get your order?

Oh, I'm really sorry about that.

And Nathan is normally so reliable.

I'll have to check into

it and see what happened.

In the meantime, I mean,

I will refund your money.

And also maybe you could stop by this week

and we'll give you a

free pizza on the house.

How's that?

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, sorry about that again, ma'am.

All right, thanks for letting me know.

Okay, bye-bye.

Come on, come on.

Nathan, pick up, pick up.

Oh my God.

Hope everything's all right.

Okay.

Nothing.

I am Nev.

Slug.

Nev and Slug?

Nev and Slug.

- Yeah.

- Mr. tall guy.

We're here for the job.

What he said.

Just send by, we've been

working on this for a long time.

It's our time, it's our chance.

Bye, thanks.

Okay.

Not that kind of job, bro.

I ain't got nothing.

You're tickling me.

Except that.

Is that what you're looking for?

Yeah, I got the tickles now.

Sorry.

Okay, let's go.

This way.

- This way?

You said this way.

Sit.

I assume you know who I am?

Yep.

We heard things.

We heard stuff about you, man.

The guy in the black suit.

Two guys in black suits.

- It's a good look.

- Yeah.

You guys know why you're here?

What I hired you to do?

IDs, come on.

Let's go, animal.

Come on, IDs.

I swear, I'm over 21, sir.

Nevada?

I go by Nev.

My parents named me Nevada

'cause I was conceived in Nevada.

Vegas, baby.

Actually, maybe Barstow.

I think they were in a car.

They kind of -

Don't care.

Fitzpatrick?

Slug or Snake or Fitz if

we're banging, but maybe, yeah.

Big guy.

Pretty fat, pretty face.

Which one of your parents lost a bet?

Jokes on you, man.

I don't know my parents.

You guys know why you're here, yeah?

What I hired you to do.

We're cool.

We're cool, man.

Thank you for this gracious opportunity.

Smuggling drugs across state lines.

- State line?

- State line.

State, state line I

think that deserves the,

can I get an advancement?

A little money?

We need a place to stay.

- Transport.

I can't find my car right now.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

Yeah, we got, I know, I know.

Yeah, you were doing that.

I'm looking for the car, I'm freaking out.

Well, I was having a good time.

I know, well, that's when that happened.

And you didn't do it.

Then I'm telling you.

We had two more meetings.

You had to make the phone call though.

Why not?

Don't spend it all in one place.

Thank you, thank you.

Spend it on a few girls

in one place.

I'm assuming you guys have g*ns?

Vox, these fools only brought one g*n.

Yeah, we share a g*n.

I got my g*n.

You wanna see it?

Maybe not.

Or you know what?

I'm gonna sell you a g*n.

Yeah, yeah, sure, that's fine.

That's cool, I like that.

Sell me a g*n.

Give 'em this g*n.

The money, man.

It's the hooker money.

Now, I'm gonna get me a Chinese girl, man.

Haven't had a Chinese girl yet.

Thank you.

Pleasure doing business with you.

Here are your tickets.

Oh, flying?

First class baby.

First class Greyhound.

Greyhound?

You guys like the short bus.

Take girl in the back

of the bus.

It's the like, it's like

the ground mile hike.

Shut up.

You guys are gonna pretend

to be traveling on vacation.

No one's gonna suspect a thing.

It's for the job.

Oh yeah.

I thought it was just coke.

Yeah, different

customers, different demand.

You okay with this?

- I'm great with that.

- I'm cool.

I'm totally cool.

I'm down, down.

Look of everything.

Yeah.

We got sample.

- We got this.

Do not fail me.

No failure, man, no fail.

We're good, we're good, we're good, right?

- Yeah.

- Slug and I are good.

- Scarface.

- Yeah, that's right.

That what we talked about.

He's got the Scarface face.

Scarface face.

- Got the Scarface.

He got the Scarface face.

All serious.

With a big pile of coke and stuff.

Here's your g*n.

You're still here, why?

Later.

Later, guys.

Oh, guys, one more thing.

I wanna show you something.

Hi, I'm Dr. Vega.

One of the things that we cannot overlook

is that our center provides a

place for patients to go to.

And we are so proud to

announce that our hospital,

provides a place for patients to go to

in their time of need.

And we are gonna be

there when they need us.

We created a huge impact on our community,

where last year alone, we

treated 35,000 patients.

And this year we're aiming to pace.

We're up on pace to be

treating 37,000 patients.

And this hospital is a community.

You know, there's not a day

where I go to my grocery store.

I'm a part of this community.

And when I go to my grocery store,

patients come up to me on a daily basis

saying how much they are

so happy about our care.

And as a physician,

there's nothing more satisfying

than hearing those words.

My car.

Correction, my car.

Think of it as collateral

until you two learn how

to do your job right.

And to that point, let me show you

what happens when you don't do your job.

You know what?

You don't have to do this.

I got money, I got

connections, I got drugs.

I, I, I, I, you don't...

No, it's been a good day, brother.

Hmm, another one, my friend.

Yeah.

What do you think you're doing?

I can explain.

I was in the neighborhood and I walked in.

This was sitting here.

I was going, I was just

getting here for you guys.

You don't have to do this.

- Let's go.

- Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Come on.

Damn it.

Just got this.

Boss, I got this.

Go.

Hands behind your head.

Hands behind your head.

Down.

sh*t, my bad, my bad.

I'm gonna k*ll those two.

Oh, well, we have several

families to donate it.

It's rather expensive wings.

So we got several people

and they actually want to be anonymous.

They do not want publicity.

They just want to contribute to mankind.

Look at this here.

You working for Vox?

What you have over there?

Awesome, this is.

He doesn't work for Vox, let's go.

Come on.

- Let's go.

What are you laughing about?

Y'all here?

You know, I'm here.

Just look at you.

You look good.

Yeah, yeah.

What it this, pretend to be a cop day?

- Oh.

- You guys aren't cops.

Let me make it easy for you.

How do you like it?

The hard way or the easy way?

You look like crooked cops.

All right right, right.

We're gonna change your suit soon.

It's gonna be black and white.

Make it nicer, right?

So, what's the story with

the picture yesterday with Vox?

Vox?

Yeah.

You look nice with good buddy.

Who's Vox?

You know.

You know.

What, Snow White?

Snow White?

No, white girl, Snow White.

I don't know any white girls.

Okay, so let's make

Are you trying to be tough too?

Let's make it easy.

Make what easy?

- How do you know about-

- Do it.

What are you gonna do?

Well, we're gonna do a lot of things.

I'll let him take care of you.

He's gonna make you some nice talk.

Some nice talk, huh?

Oh, is that your badge?

Your tough guy badge.

Shut the f*ck up.

Look at that.

Hey.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll be there soon.

Okay, bye.

I gotta go.

There's more than the pizzeria.

Take care of it.

Bye.

Vox.

Yeah, I escaped.

But there's something crazy going on.

All right, I'll meet you there.

We are expanding.

We have some rooms that

are very off limits

because the information

that we're doing there

is not for the general public yet,

although it will eventually

be massive worldwide known.

But we do have several

rooms that are exclusive

and would be off limits

for the general public

or even for reporters.

What do we get ourselves

into this time, man?

It's your fault.

You drive me into this every time, man.

Well, it doesn't help

that our car's gone.

It's your car.

I mean, maybe we could

just go town to town

and just kind of do this.

Rip people off in each town.

What do you think of that, huh?

What town is this?

Emerson.

I can't find him.

I'm still searching for him.

Hey, hey, hey.

This drug stuff is

trying to scare me, man.

At least we got cash now.

Yep, yeah, yep.

Are you guys crazy?

Hey, hey.

I don't even know this guy's name.

How you been?

How you doing, how you doing?

- I'm Nev.

- That's Nev.

I'm Slug.

Remember me from earlier?

Of course I remember you.

Okay.

So we're just tied up

in some stuff right now.

You haven't happened to hear this guy Vox,

have you heard of him?

Local.

It's local, right?

- Okay.

Well, we kind of took some

of his property today.

Yeah, mind this over here.

Hopefully he's dead.

Is he a bad guy?

I mean, I know he is a bad

guy, but is it a scary guy?

It's Vox, it's Vox, it's Vox.

I'll cover for you.

Meet me at the coffee shop, okay?

I'll cover for you.

Okay.

Okay, thanks, okay.

We weren't never here.

Hey, I haven't seen

you at the coffee shop.

Where have you been?

You were never here.

Move.

He can see us.

Thanks.

Reggie.

You seen these two idiots?

Nev and

I see a lot of idiots.

- Sure.

- Sure.

They're pretty quiet.

Okay.

Well, no, I wasn't born in Emerson,

but I am from Emerson.

I have lived here all of my life.

Of course I had to go to college

and do some other things

that took me away.

But basically I am an

Emersonian, you might say.

What university did you go to?

Well, I went of course to Yale.

I mean, I was able to make it

and I had really high scholastic standing,

so I was admitted willingly.

I understand that there's an Exhibit A

you've been working on lately.

Can you tell us more about that?

Well, yes, I didn't expect

you to ask about that,

but I guess the word is

starting to out a little bit.

You know, I've always been concerned

that people die sooner

than I think they should.

So I've been working

very much on this very.

You know what, I'm going

to change the topic

and take you around so that you can see

some of our facilities.

Would you like that?

Come with me.

Hey, Solas

When you get my message,

gimme a call back, okay?

I've been calling you like

three times an hour ago.

We have some order here.

All right, if you get my message,

call me as soon as possible.

911, okay?

All right, bye, bye.

We are proud to say

that we are excelling

in our patient satisfaction survey

by providing good quality

care, innovative research,

and state-of-the-art technology.

Right, and we are very pleased with

what we have done with this patient.

He came to us with a strangulated hernia

and it was very serious.

He would've been dead soon

because nothing would

move within his body.

And we took care of it.

We did it rapidly, but

we did it with precision.

We use the techniques that

we have been trained for.

We know how to administer drugs properly.

He had no need to worry.

We put him out.

He doesn't even know what happened.

But he'll know when he geeks up.

He will be very thankful.

Aren't you thankful?

What do you have to say about that?

I'm very thankful for what they did.

You know, like you said,

I could a, I could a died.

You know, that, that burst.

They had to get me in and then

they got me out right away

without little to no pain.

Good, thank you.

We're proud of you.

And we're proud of what we did too.

We knew what we were doing

and we followed through.

Thank you, doctors.

I appreciate it.

Oh my God, are you okay?

Thanks for covering back there.

You okay?

- No.

- That was crazy.

These guys are crazy, man.

I didn't know Vox was still alive.

Happened to me.

You dragged me into this.

It will be all right.

We're alive.

We got a problem.

Oh my God.

These kids again.

You can, you can keep it.

We actually were getting that for you.

We were trying to return it.

- It's all yours.

- It's all you.

It's all there still.

- Stop pointing g*ns.

- Yeah.

Did anybody ever tell you it's not nice

to steal from people?

What did he say?

9-5.

Let's go.

Hold on, Vox, I'm gonna go look.

Wait, wait, I have a plan.

We should go to Dr. Cromwells.

I mean, he's a good doctor.

He treated my parents.

It's a little out of town, but

I think we'll be safe there.

Come on, let's go.

Yeah, that sounds good.

What is it, Vega?

Doctor, have you found Exhibit A yet?

I haven't found him yet.

This experiment has gone out of control.

I'd like to officially hand

in my resignation from today.

I'm gonna be right home.

This is volatile.

It's not like others.

I need to find this guy

We gotta find him.

Police, don't move.

Don't.

Stop, stupid.

Don't move.

So we don't know how

Vox keeps finding us.

Yeah, I guess we're not so great

at playing Scarface, are we?

So can you tell us more

about Dr. Cromwell?

What can I say?

Dr. Cromwell is someone I respected.

He was so obsessed with

prolonging human life.

At first I was on board

because it would've been huge

breakthroughs in diseases

and, you know, other

scientific breakthroughs.

But now he's gone a

completely different direction

and I'm just, it's not ethical.

Hello, doctor.

Drop the bag.

Let's go inside.

Do you have a sandwich?

Right now?

This is not the time for a sandwich.

How the hell do you keep finding us?

'Cause there's a tracker

in your bag, idiots.

- What?

- Huh?

Oh, I was wondering what this was.

That explains a lot.

Shut up.

Now, doctor, start talking.

All right, all right, I will.

It's not that complicated.

I am looking for Exhibit A.

What is that?

It's the result of an experiment

I have been working on.

I have been trying hard, very hard

to learn how to extend

life, even your life,

and Exhibit A is making

progress, but it disappeared.

I've got to find Exhibit A

and then I'll know how to continue

so that I can explain to you.

Vega here knows what I'm talking about.

She's been helping me

and we are coming closer

and closer to fulfilling the experiment

and being successful.

Exhibit A has apparently gone rogue.

I mean, something has gone wrong.

It's because of the

side effects I believe.

You put the town of Emerson in danger.

I watched my bodyguard die.

Was this because of your Exhibit A?

Well, I...

Exhibit A has returned.

I got to go take care of this.

Please let me take care of this.

No, no, no.

Get your dinner with, sit back down.

Okay, let's go in.

What?

Solus is dead?

Hey, Exhibit A, where are you?

Exhibit A, where are you?

I'm here to help you.

Where are you?

Oh, I want you to know I am here.

I am on your side.

I am trying to save mankind.

This whole experiment is

to let life be extended.

And you are the main one that I am using.

I've done everything in

my power to help people.

And you are my best example.

And you're the result of

everything that I have done.

Father, Daddy, I'm here to help mankind.

Do you understand that?

I'm here to extend life,

not do anything bad.

You would not be alive right now.

I got you, Vox.

Whoa, whoa, all right.

Your phone.

Everybody, calm down, right?

This isn't me.

This is bigger than me.

I need you to listen to me.

There's something worse out there.

I had not given you the drugs

that I have been giving you.

It's working.

It's starting to work.

Look, I don't wanna work with any of you

more than you wanna work with me,

but we have a stronger chance of survival

if we stick together.

Now, don't get excited.

Don't get excited, daddy.

I want you to stay calm.

Stay calm.

Dr. Cromwell.

How are we gonna k*ll these things?

We're gonna have to go to the dungeons.

I know the way.

I can lead you.

Do you guys have weapons?

Yes, we do have them.

Here, take yours.

I don't have a weapon.

Exhibit A has sensitivity to light.

This will protect you.

Trust me.

Do you have a weapon?

Always.

- Okay.

- Let's go.

All right, you can split up.

You guys go down left.

Good.

Be careful.

See you, buddy.

Go, get her to safety.

- Hey.

- Oh, hey.

Look at this.

Hey, hey, you guys okay?

Vox is dead.

Vox is dead.

Have you seen Nev

Help.

I'm over here, help.

Help me.

Hey, guys, help.

Well, Vox got sucked in.

Okay, we have to be careful.

We don't know where this creature is.

It seems to be lurking everywhere.

Okay, do you have a plan?

- I have a plan.

- Okay.

Okay, here it is.

All right.

You all right?

- Yeah.

Flip the switch.

We did it.

- Oh my God.

- Exhibit's gone, man.

You should have seen it.

It's pretty awesome.

You're alive.

I thought you were dead.

I don't know.

Go check.

Let's go.

Help.

Help.

Anybody, help.

Help.

Vega.

Where's that thing?

You guys.

Hey, Nev.

You're alive.

Isabell.

Yeah, I just locked myself in.

That thing was chasing me.

Yeah, you missed the whole party.

Nothing there.

I napped a little bit.

Long day.

Hi, guys, listen up.

This is the last time I'm gonna cooperate.

There is something for you guys.

You and him get some money.

Fix your life.

Get something for you.

Get some job.

Get some real life.

- We will.

- I'm done.

Take care of you guys,

you take care and have

- Take care.

- Bye.

Thank you, detective.

Bye-bye.

All right, take care, guys.

Thanks.

Let's go raise hell in the

next town, huh?

Yeah, I could use a sandwich.

- Let's go get that sandwich.

- Let's go.