Movies Hunter here. Today, I have brought a 2020 thriller film called “Dangerous Lies.” It follows
the story of a caregiver, who unexpectedly inherits the wealth of an elderly man.
But this wealth comes with a price that will change her life forever. To know what happens,
watch till the end. The film begins in Chicago, where we see a young waitress, Katie Franklin,
who works at a local diner. She wakes up her husband Adam Kettner, who has fallen asleep over
some books. Sometime later, the two make love in their car. They want to spend more time together,
but they are so busy with work and studies that they are unable to make ends meet. When they
return to the diner, they see a man trying to rob the diner at gunpoint. Adam grabs a pan and
manages to subdue the man. The robber is then sent to prison, whereas Adam is called a hero. Four
months later, Katie begins working as a caretaker for a wealthy old man named Leonard Wellsley.
Meanwhile, Adam has stopped taking classes in order to find a job but hasn’t had any luck yet.
Katie is frustrated by their situation and doesn't know what to do next. Adam assures
her that everything will be fine, but Katie is in no mood to listen to him. So she goes to Leonard’s
house to clear her mind. Leonard finds her and tells Katie that he keeps hearing someone walking
around in the house but never finds them. Katie assures him that there is no one in the house.
She then tells Leonard about her problems. Leonard wants to help and offers her money, but Katie
politely declines the money and tells him that Adam needs a job. So Leonard hires Adam to do
some work tending the lawn and gardening. When Leonard and Adam are away, a real estate agent
named Mickey Hayden comes there and tells Katie that his client wants to buy Leonard's house.
Katie tells him that Leonard has lived in the house his whole life and will not sell
the property that easily. But she promises to contact him if Leonard changes his mind.
Later that day, when Adam and Katie leave for home, a mysterious car follows them. One day,
Mr Calvern from the caretaker agency comes by the house to check on Leonard and Katie.
Leonard tells Mr Calvern that Katie is doing a great job and he is happy with her service. Later,
when Katie opens her next paycheck, she learns that it is way too much than she is supposed to
be paid. She realises that Leonard must have done something to help her with her financial problems.
Katie feels that she can’t accept the money, so she decides to return the check to Leonard.
But Adam stops her and convinces her to pay their bills first, as their financial condition is not
good. As Katie goes to deposit the money, it is revealed that Mickey has been watching them
from his car. The next day, Katie and Adam go to Leonard’s home. When Katie goes to Leonard's room,
she finds him dead, sitting in a chair in the attic next to his record player.
Adam also comes there and comforts Katie, who is sad about Leonard’s death. Adam then begins
to look around and finds an unlocked chest. There he finds some old photos of Leonard and a woman.
Just when Katie is about to call the police, Adam finds a huge amount of money hidden underneath.
Katie tells Adam that Leonard has no family, which means the money will go to the government.
Adam doesn’t like this and tells Katie that Leonard wanted to help her and would have wanted
her to have the money. Katie agrees with him and the two decide to take the money for themselves.
Later when the cops arrive, Detective Chesler asks Katie and Adam some questions.
She lets them leave when she doesn’t find anything wrong with Leonard’s death.
Before leaving, Katie mentions that Leonard wanted to be cremated. A couple of days later,
Katie decides to go back to the agency to get another job. But Mr Calvern tells her that he
can’t give her another assignment until the police finish their investigation,
as it's the company policy. Meanwhile, Adam goes to Leonard's house to collect the money.
Just then, he hears someone downstairs. He goes to check and sees a broken window.
Suddenly, someone hits him from behind, knocking him unconscious.
When he awakes, he calls Katie and tells her everything. Katie is mad at Adam for not being
careful and coming to Leonard’s home like he belongs there. Adam tells Katie that he counted
the cash, and it’s close to one hundred thousand dollars. Katie and Adam try to figure out who the
person who broke in was and wonder what they knew. The two then decide to take the cash to the bank
and put it into a safety deposit, as they fear that the person may return to Leonard's house.
Mickey is still following them and is tracking all their movements. One day, Chesler calls Katie
and tells her to meet her. Chesler tells Katie that since Leonard had no family and no will,
they don’t know who will cover the costs. So Katie says she and Adam will pay for everything.
At Leonard’s funeral, a woman named Julia Byron-Kim approaches Katie and Adam.
She tells them that she was Leonard’s attorney. Julia reveals that a few weeks ago Leonard called
her out of the blue and hired her to handle his will, according to which Leonard is leaving
everything to Katie. Katie is shocked by this and doesn’t know what to do next.
So Julia offers to stay on and help Katie through the transition since Leonard had her retainer
paid. Before leaving, Julia informs Katie that she alone makes the decisions for the house,
not Adam, as she is the legal owner now. Soon after moving into Leonard’s house, Adam expresses
that he wants to go on fancy vacations, buy luxury cars, and live the rest of his life lavishly.
But Katie reminds him that they still need to be careful and take things slowly.
One day, Adam gets a call from the police, who tell him to come down to the station to
make another statement about the diner robbery that happened 5 months ago.
But when Adam gets there, he is told that no one called him. When Chesler comes there,
Adam tells her about the call and also about the incident that happened at the diner.
Chesler then reveals that the assailant from the diner robbery was killed in his cell a few weeks
ago. Adam is confused by this and wonders who called him. Now that Leonard is dead,
Mickey comes to Leonard's house and again tries to pursue Katie to sell the house.
But Katie refuses, saying that she is the owner now. Mickey isn't very happy about this and
accuses Katie of forging the will. So Katie tells him to leave or else she will call the police.
Later that day, Katie tells Adam about Mickey. She wants to call Julia, but Adam dissuades her.
Meanwhile, Chesler is beginning to grow suspicious about Adam and Katie.
So she goes to talk to them. When she finds out that Leonard left Katie everything,
she becomes even more suspicious. She asks Katie if Adam always came to pick her up at the diner.
Katie tells her that he came early and was studying. Before leaving, Chesler also reveals
that no one from the police called Adam, which Katie didn't know about. After returning home,
Katie confronts Adam for not telling her about the phone call. Adam says that he doesn’t know who
called him. He also tells Katie that he was being followed by someone when he went to the bank.
Katie realizes that Mickey probably called him down to the station so that she would be alone
and he could come over and try to intimidate her. Katie and Adam figure out that Mickey must know
about the money. Katie is beginning to fear that if the police find out they did something illegal,
they could lose everything. She wants to put the money back, but Adam tells her he won’t go back
to the way things were before. Meanwhile, Chesler questions Mr Calvern about Katie.
He tells her that Katie kept meticulous notes on Leonard’s medications.
Chesler then shows him the much higher value check Katie deposited from Leonard the night before he
died, which shocks Mr Calvern. Meanwhile, Katie goes into the gardening shed looking for Adam,
but can't find him anywhere. There she discovers a strange shelf and moves it away from the wall,
only to find another room inside. There she finds uncashed checks written out to Ethan.
After some more searching, she also finds a rotting corpse and a bag full of diamonds.
Katie tells Adam that Leonard had a gardener named Ethan who he said stopped showing up one day.
Just then, Mr Calvern shows up angrily shouting at Katie for taking advantage of an old man and
tarnishing his company’s name. Katie tells him that she will talk to him later and tells him to
leave. Katie wants to call Detective Chesler and tell her everything, but Adam says they could lose
everything. Katie says that as long as they have each other, they’ll be alright, but Adam refuses,
saying that he will never go back to how it was. So he resolves to take care of everything
and decides to get rid of Ethan’s body. Later that night, Adam hears an intruder in the house.
So he grabs a gun and goes to confront the intruder, who turns out to be Mr Calvern.
Shocked, he falls back down the stairs and dies. Later, Chesler comes to the scene and
tells Katie that she knows none of this is her and explains that everything is suspicious.
She asks Katie if Adam ever mentioned a guy named Ray Gaskin. Chesler reveals that he was
the one who tried to rob the diner, who also was a janitor where Adam was taking classes.
She tells Katie not to let Adam take her down with him, and urges Katie to come to her.
The next day, Katie meets with Julia and tells her about everything that happened recently,
including the money and the diamonds. They then go to the deposit box and find the cash is missing,
which means that Adam has taken everything. Julia tells Katie that Adam is going to leave
with the money and diamonds, and throw her to the cops. So Julia tells Katie to make sure that Adam
stays at home, while she tries to hold off Chesler from getting her search warrant for the house.
Meanwhile, Chesler finds Ethan’s body along with a check from Leonard. Katie returns home
and confronts Adam, who is packing up their things and the money. He tells Katie that
he looked up Hayden and found that he is not a real estate agent, but an ex-con just released
for robbing a jewellery store, three million in diamonds. His partner Ethan, who he shot,
was never found. Katie wants to call the police, but Adam says they need to flee right away.
Katie is relieved that Adam wasn’t leaving her, and calls Julia to tell her that. But Mickey comes
out of nowhere and holds Katie at gunpoint. Adam aims a gun at him, but Mickey shoots him multiple
times and then knocks Katie to the ground. But before he could do anything else, Adam shoots
him and kills him. Katie holds Adam crying as he says something about the garden and dies.
Just then, Julia arrives and tells Katie they need to find the diamonds before the police get there
or else she will be implicated. Katie realizes Hayden must have read her book on Leonard’s
medications and killed him with an overdose. She wonders why Hayden shot Ethan. Julia then
begins ranting about how stupid you would have to be to do that with three million in diamonds.
Katie realizes that she never mentioned how much the diamonds were worth. Julia grabs Hayden’s gun
and tells Katie that she was a public defender who got Hayden’s case and pled him down to two years.
Together, they worked to track down the diamonds to Leonard but weren’t able to locate them.
Katie realizes the will isn’t real. But Julia tells her that Leonard would have given her the
house anyway and begs Katie to tell her where the diamonds are. But Katie says Adam hid the
diamonds and she doesn’t know, but wouldn’t tell her even if she did. Julia aims the gun at Katie,
but Chesler comes there just in time. Julia tries to shoot Chesler but Katie shoves her,
and Chesler shoots Julia, killing her. Chesler then helps Katie out of the house.
Four months later, Katie is working in her garden and is pregnant. Chesler comes to
visit her and tells her that the case is closed and that Adam was cleared of being a suspect.
Chesler says they searched high and low but never found the diamonds.
After Chesler leaves, Katie turns on the sprinklers and heads inside. The water from
the garden begins washing, revealing the diamonds. So this was the story of “Dangerous Lies.”
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