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Follow us today to a 2001 American science fiction action film called: Replicant.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As our story begins we see an injured woman sitting on the floor calling 911.
There is a man in her apartment and she is concerned for herself and her baby.
911 dispatches police units to the scene.
As the woman tries to get up, the man kicks her down then kicks her head knocking her
out.
Then he takes photos of her before picking up the baby boy and putting him in the cot.
Outside, the police arrive and rush into the building.
Inside the apartment, the man pours alcohol over the woman’s body then sets her on fire.
In the elevator, the detective known as Jake Riley says “it’s him.”
He seems to know who the killer might be.
Jake kicks the apartment door in and they enter a smoke filled apartment, opening the
windows.
The killer, unseen in the smoke, goes into another room.
Jake finds the baby in the cot but the burning ceiling falls in and he has to break the window
to get the baby to safety.
As Jake climbs out onto a platform, he sees the killer climbing down the fire escape ladder.
Jake manages to climb down safely with the baby then tells another officer to get the
baby to a hospital.
He then pursues the killer down an alleyway.
He sees people boarding a bus and crosses the street to stop it.
Inside, the killer stands everyone up then escapes out a side window.
Jake follows him into a car park near a railway station.
The killer drives a car and tries to run over Jake but Jake rolls out of the way, only hurting
his foot and the killer drives off.
Other police arrive and a detective named Angie tells Jake he is actually retired as
of an hour ago.
His Captain arrives and tells him the Feds want to talk to him.
A federal agent called Stan Reisman offers Jake a job with the Feds so that they can
help him to catch the killer but he declines.
We hear a TV broadcast talking about the killer who is known as “The Torch''.
The killer has now killed 11 people.
As The Torch watches Jake being interviewed, Jake throws some insults at The Torch which
gets him very angry.
Now we see Jake and his friends celebrating his retirement and his new business as a boat
repairman.
Jake gets a phone call from The Torch, who tells Jake he was a bad cop because he couldn’t
catch him and he’s going to keep killing people.
Jake becomes pissed off and swears that he’ll catch him.
We see Jake in a helicopter with Reisman, flying to a secret Federal location.
Inside the facility, Jake sees a pod with the shape of a man inside.
Reisman tells Jake that they found a hair follicle from The Torch at a crime scene a
year ago.
From that hair, they used the DNA to reproduce a man the same as The Torch, but known as
the Replicant.
Reisman also tells Jake that they are actually the National Security Force (NSF), not the
FBI.
When the Replicant is ready he will work with Jake to help him catch The Torch.
The Replicant then has an adverse reaction to some treatment.
We see The Torch again and he seems to be picking up some sort of connection to the
Replicant.
Now we see the Replicant waking up in a sealed room.
He is learning basic instructions.
Jake is his first human contact and he understands that Jake has control of him.
Jake and the Replicant leave the facility to try and track down The Torch.
Now Jake is driving a car with the Replicant asleep in the backseat.
Jake realizes he’s being followed so he gives them the slip then drives to an abandoned
building.
He tries to aggravate the Replicant to see if he can awaken a killer instinct but the
Replicant doesn’t understand what Jake is doing.
Suddenly, the men from the NSF appear on the scene.
They want to take the Replicant back but when they try to take him he fights back and Jake
starts to think that he might be useful after all.
Jake tells the Replicant to stop and he obeys Jake.
Jake takes the Replicant to look at a house where The Torch had killed a woman before.
As they look through the house the Replicant seems to be having flashbacks of the murder.
He has a memory of a dead man in the living room.
In his visions he can see The Torch walking ahead of him.
Jake understands that the Replicant is seeing what The Torch has done before.
Now we see The Torch walking past a mother who is scolding her son for misbehaving.
She’s telling him that he’s “a bad boy.”
This triggers something in the mind of The Torch.
Jake drives to Angie’s house and her son Danny comes running down to see Jake.
The Replicant watches with curiosity.
They go inside and Jake handcuffs the Replicant to a water pipe.
He asks Angie if she can get some info from the police station for him.
Danny gives the Replicant some of his candy bar but then Danny runs to Angie with blood
on his mouth.
Jake runs in and starts beating on the Replicant but Danny tells Angie that it was the dog
that hurt him.
We see Jake pull into a car park where Reisman is waiting.
He tells Jake that they’ve been tracking him.
At Jake’s house he takes the Replicant into the bathroom to look for the tracking device
that Reisman must have implanted on the Replicant.
Jake’s mother is not happy with him mistreating the Replicant so she leaves and goes back
to her home.
Now we see The Torch telling the woman that he saw earlier, that she is a bad mother.
A car pulls up and two men try to help her but as he hits them, she runs inside the back
of a restaurant kitchen.
The Torch goes after her, fighting the men in the kitchen.
Now Jake is at the police station and Angie is trying to help him identify the Replicant’s
image from the police database.
Jake shows the Replicant photos of the crime scenes of The Torch’s victims.
Jake finds the file on The Torch who is now revealed as Edward Garrotte.
It also shows his current address.
Just then, the Captain is coming in so Jake and The Replicant get up and leave.
The Captain looks at the computer and finds the file on Edward Garrotte.
Jake parks outside a building and tells the Replicant to stay in the car.
Jake enters the building and walks up the stairs.
Outside, Angie pulls up and enters the building with two other detectives.
They find Jake about to enter an apartment.
Once inside, they find a room with photos of Jake and all of Garrotte’s victims.
On the computer they find images of all his victims before they were burned.
Downstairs, in Jake’s car, the Replicant is getting anxious and he breaks the bar that
he’s handcuffed to then he runs into the building and upstairs.
Jake tries to print the images from the computer, but the Replicant yells to Jake to get out.
Somehow he knew that it was set to explode a bomb.
As the apartment explodes, it blows glass down onto the street.
A short distance away, Garrotte watches everyone panicking.
The Replicant rushes out of the building then he and Garrotte make eye contact.
Garrotte walks away but the Replicant follows him.
Jake and Angie rush outside to look for the Replicant.
Garrotte runs down an alley and disappears but the Replicant follows and enters the back
of a bar.
Garrotte jumps out and they start fighting.
The two men inside try to intervene but Garrotte knocks one out and shoots the other one.
He hears police sirens so he kicks the Replicant in the head and leaves.
Back at the apartment building, Jake tells Angie he can’t find the Replicant.
Angie gets a call on her radio of a shooting at the bar two blocks away.
She and Jake run to the bar and the man tells them there were two identical twins fighting
and one of them shot his boss.
We see Garrotte getting into a taxi and leaving with the Replicant running after him.
Now we see Jake taking the Replicant to the car but he asks Jake who is he?
Jake tells him he’s a Genetic Double.
This time Jake removes the handcuffs and lets him sit in the front seat.
Jake is starting to appreciate the Replicant.
Jake takes him to a park where adults are playing with their children.
Then he buys him an ice cream.
Jake shows him a photo of a woman who might be the next victim and the Replicant draws
a picture on the windscreen.
They drive off to look for the place where she might be held captive.
They enter a large hotel but the concierge tells him they must leave.
The Replicant seems to know where to go so Jake grabs the concierge and they go up in
an elevator.
They enter an apartment and find a woman dead in the bathtub.
The Replicant runs out and they go down to the basement in a service elevator.
He locks Jake in a room then goes looking for Garrotte by himself.
At the end of a tunnel he finds Garrotte sitting on a motorbike.
Garrotte asks him what he is and he tells him a “Genetic Double.”
Garrotte tells him they are the same and they are brothers.
He tells the Replicant that Jake will kill him.
Jake has escaped from the locked room and comes running down the tunnel.
As Garrotte rides away, Jake tries to shoot him but the Replicant won’t get out of the
way.
He asks if Jake will kill him?
Back in Jake’s house, Garrotte wants to talk to Jake and the Replicant so Jake puts
him on speaker phone.
Garrotte tells Jake his “brother” can tell him who the next victim will be.
Jake is angry and takes the Replicant into the bathroom and locks him to the pipe.
Now we see Garrotte in a hospital talking to a nurse called Carol, who calls him Mr.
Savard.
In his mother’s room, he shows her a photo of his last victim and she tells him he’s
a bad boy.
Then he has a flashback of when he was younger.
His mother told him he was a bad boy then she locked him in the closet cupboard.
He has another flashback where she tells him that heshould never have been born Luke Savard.
We see the Replicant seemingly disturbed.
Jake comes into the bathroom and the Replicant tells him the name “Luke Savard.”
As Jake is driving, Angie is giving him details of Luke Savard’s criminal record starting
when he was 11 years old.
After joining the army he was reported as missing in action but the body was never found.
Jake and the Replicant go to the hospital and the nurse Carol thinks he is Luke Savard.
She tells him that his mother passed away last night from a heart attack.
When they go to see her body, the Replicant has tears in his eyes, as if he is looking
at his real mother.
Suddenly Garrotte comes in and holds a gun to the nurse’s head.
Jake drops his gun and Garrotte starts beating him up while the Replicant just watches.
Garrotte tells the Replicant that he cares about him and wants them to be together.
He gives the Replicant a knife and tells him to kill Jake but he drops the knife and Garrotte
says he will kill them both now.
The Replicant calls him a bad boy Luke Savard and accuses him of killing Mama.
Garrotte turns the gun at Mama’s body and starts shooting her.
Just then, Jake gets up and pushes a trolley into Garrotte then the Replicant starts fighting
with Garrotte.
Garrotte stabs him with a scalpel then Jake fights with Garrotte.
Garrotte walks out and fights with two police officers who see him in the hall.
As he runs out of an exit, Jake runs after him.
Back in the other room the Replicant pulls the scalpel out then finds Jake’s gun in
a tray of blood.
Garrotte steals an ambulance but Jake runs after him and jumps on to the side of the
ambulance.
They fight inside the ambulance and Jake wraps the seat belt around Garrotte’s neck then
jumps out before the ambulance crashes down some stairs.
Jake climbs down to find that Garrotte has escaped.
He searches a room but Garrotte hits him with a shovel.
While Jake is almost unconscious Garrotte takes him to a furnace to burn him alive.
Just in time, the Replicant runs in with the gun and pulls Jake off the furnace belt.
Garrotte and the Replicant start fighting but the Replicant wins.
As he walks away, Garrotte picks up a shovel and hits the Replicant in the back of his
head then Jake shoots Garrotte dead.
Jake tells the Replicant that he is his family now.
Some wires fall down on a flammable tank so the two of them head for an exit door.
The Replicant pushes Jake outside to safety and closes the door.
Jake tries to get back in but the tank explodes and knocks Jake backwards.
Later, we see Reisman telling Jake that the only ones who survived were the corpses in
the fridge drawers.
Jake hands him back the gun.
He’s had enough of working for the NSF.
Now Jake is at Angie’s house playing video games with Danny.
He looks out the window at the rain and sees a man in a raincoat putting something in the
letterbox.
He walks outside with Danny and finds a child’s toy that belonged to Garrotte when he was
young.
He looks around but the man is gone.
He looked a little like the Replicant.
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