Welcome back to Movie Recapped. Today I will show you a drama,
thriller film from 2018, titled 10x10. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.
The movie starts with our protagonist, Cathy Newland, going through her usual routine.
She works at her flower shop, has breakfast at the diner across the street, and goes to her
yoga classes. All the while, she's followed by a strange man called Robert Lewis. While Cathy
is at yoga, Lewis waits outside; he checks out her car before retrieving a gun, a plastic bag,
zip ties, tape, and a newspaper from his trunk. After tossing all those things on the front seat
of his car, he keeps on waiting, and he receives a call from his maid, Alondra, who confirms
everything is alright for tonight. After the yoga lessons are over, Cathy chats with another woman
in the changing room and clearly shows disapproval when the woman implies she wants to cheat on her
husband. Afterward, she goes to the parking lot, ready to go home, but she barely makes it to her
car before Lewis jumps on her. He covers her head with the plastic bag and throws her to the floor,
trying to suffocate her, but Cathy manages to push him off and take off the bag.
She cries out for help, but the only person nearby has headphones on and doesn't hear her.
This gives Lewis the chance to grab her again, and he tells her he'll kill her if she makes another
sound before he covers her mouth with tape and ties her wrists and ankles with the zip ties.
Cathy is left on the floor while Lewis goes back to his car, waits for the vehicle next to Cathy to
leave, then takes over that parking spot. There, he picks Cathy up and locks her up in his trunk
before driving away. On the way to his house, a police car stops next to his at the traffic light,
but he plays it cool and manages not to arise suspicion. When he makes it home a few moments
later, the garage door gets stuck midway, so he has to finish raising it himself and sticks a
broom under it to keep it up. Lewis takes the time to turn around the car and enter the garage in
reverse gear, so the trunk goes inside first. He takes Cathy out of the trunk and drags her through
the house as her bleeding feet leave bloodstains on the floor. She is taken to a ten by ten cellar,
which Lewis locks up and hides behind a fake wall and a table with a vase on it. While Cathy
struggles against her bindings, Lewis puts some food in the oven and goes to his car to retrieve
his things and her bag, then he pays Cathy a visit. He informs her the walls are soundproof so
there's no point in yelling, then tells her he'll take off the tape so she can tell him her name.
After Cathy nods her understanding, Lewis removes the tape, but she only starts screaming again,
so he leaves her alone and goes to his office. He checks his computer to make sure everything in the
cellar is being recorded, then mutes the sound. Afterward, he starts cleaning the bloodstains on
his floor. Cathy manages to stand up and starts hitting the door with her whole body to no avail.
Kicking the wall panels doesn't work either, so she decides to try something else when she
notices the room has a vent. She comes as close as possible to it and tries to scream for help,
but the house is in a remote location, so nobody can hear her. While listening to an old news
recording that mentions a case being reopened when proof of three deaths not being natural appears,
Lewis loads his gun and goes to see Cathy again. She asks him not to touch her and offers him the
fifty thousand dollars she has in savings, Lewis points out that is a lot of money for someone
in her line of business. But he doesn't want her money, he wants her to tell him her name.
She responds "Cathy Newland", which disappoints him and makes him leave. Back in the kitchen,
Lewis goes through Cathy's bag, but he doesn't find anything useful, so he goes back to watching
old news reports. This time, the reporter says the proof didn't end up being enough to prove
unnatural death, so the case was closed again and the families planned to fight that decision.
While Lewis goes back to cooking, Cathy puts her best effort into bending her body and manages to
get her bound hands in front of her. When Lewis goes to get her for lunch, Cathy is waiting for
him behind the door and wastes no time in attacking him. She punches him until he's on
the floor and kicks him as she leaves the room, once outside, she grabs the vase from the table
and smashes it on his head. Cathy drags herself to Lewis' office and tries to call the police using
the land phone, but Lewis shows up and shoots it. When he comes closer, she grabs a paperweight from
the desk and hits him with it, leaving him unconscious on the floor for a few seconds.
She goes to the kitchen and finds her cellphone in her bag, but it has no signal, so she searches
the drawers for a knife and cuts off the bindings on her ankles before trying to leave the house.
Unfortunately, all the doors are locked. Lewis wakes up then and Cathy asks him how he knows what
her occupation is, but his only reply is to sit at the table and invite her to have lunch with him.
While he eats, he asks her for her name again, to which she answers "Cathy Newland". Lewis reminds
him he has a gun and guns beat knives, so Cathy accepts sitting at the table but doesn't touch
the food. After pointing out that if he wanted her dead he would've already killed her, he asks
for her name once more. Cathy gives her the same answer, which angers him and causes him to throw
his plate at her face. They both leave the table as Lewis comes closer with his gun pointed at her,
Cathy knocks it off his hands and tries to punch him, Lewis responds by pushing her against the
kitchen counter. Cathy manages to get him off her by biting him, then she puts her bound
wrists around his neck to choke him. However, it is not enough to leave him unconscious,
so when she tries to escape, he knocks her out with a punch and takes her back to the cellar.
When he returns to the kitchen, his maid Alondra is there. She came over because he never told
her if he would need her today or not. Lewis tells her she isn't needed and dismisses her,
but Alondra insists on trying to clean up the broken dishes and take care of his wounds.
Getting desperate, Lewis tells her he's just having one of those days and tries to get her
to leave again, Alondra hesitates but accepts and promises to return the next day with his daughter,
who is currently at a sleepover. Lewis cleans up the messes, puts the flowers in a new vase,
and washes the bloody knife before checking on Cathy to put some butterfly bandages on her cuts.
Afterward, he takes a shower and takes care of his own wounds, then he finishes his lunch in front of
the tv, watching more old news recordings about the Charleston Three, a case of three patients
dying under mysterious circumstances at the All Angels Hospital in Charleston.
Meanwhile, Cathy retrieves her cell phone from its hidden place in her pants, but there's no signal.
She puts it away when she discovers one of the floor tiles has cracked, so she starts
working on trying to unstick the shard from the floor. Lewis visits Cathy again, this
time bringing a chair with him. He starts asking her questions about her personal life: her name,
her birthday, her hometown, her school, her major, amount of siblings, her parents' professions, and
her relationship with the church. Cathy answers them all, but Lewis isn't satisfied. He tells
her he's been following her around for months and he knows everything she just told him are lies,
so he continues to press her for the correct information. Cathy finally changes her story when
he shoots the wall. Her real name is Nathalie Ann Steven. She grew up with her twin sister Cathy,
who killed herself when their father -who was a doctor for a football team- left their mom for
a cheerleader. Nathalie didn't give up and went on to study nursing like her mother.
Now she has admitted what he wanted, Lewis tells her she must be wondering why he's kidnapped her,
but he only says she probably already knows before leaving the room again, taking the chair
with him. As soon as the door is closed, both Cathy and Lewis have an emotional breakdown.
While Lewis goes back to the living room to watch old videos of him with his family,
Nathalie starts working on the broken floor tile again. She doesn't make any progress there, so she
takes out her phone once more and puts it against the vent, finally managing to get some signal.
She dials 911 and tries to ask for help, which proves to be difficult because the signal is weak.
Meanwhile, Lewis sees a cellphone in the video and makes him realize she's taken her phone to
the cellar with her. He rushes in right after she hides it, but he retrieves it from her pants
and destroys it, leaving the broken parts on the floor. Another interrogation begins.
Nathalie admits having worked at All Angels Hospital, and Lewis asks her about the patients
that inexplicably died under her care, including his wife, Alana. Nathalie reminds him there was
a trial and all nurses were found innocent, she says she only left town because she needed a fresh
start. Lewis doesn't buy it and tells her about all the clues that made him suspicious. A man
called John Lamptey died of organ failure when a month before he had passed his medical insurance.
Alana was missing her wedding ring, which she never took off, she was drunk, which was weird
because she never drank much, and her body was full of GHB, a drug usually used to incapacitate
abuse victims. Lewis doesn't just think Nathalie did it, he fully knows it, so he tells her that
if she doesn't admit it, she'll die as well. Lewis goes back to watch old family videos after
checking his computer is still recording every noise in the cellar. Seeing his dead wife on the
screen upsets him, so he rushes back to the cellar and puts his gun in front of Nathalie's head,
and she finally accepts to confess. She and her sister grew up in a very religious environment,
following the teachings of the Bible. When Cathy found out their dad was sleeping with
her best friend, she confronted him about it so he abandoned them, leaving them with all this shame.
The family became the outcasts of the town for something that wasn't their fault;
they were being punished for their father's sins. This is what pushed Cathy into killing herself,
Nathalie found her in the barn, hanging from the drafters. That's why Nathalie has dedicated her
life to her and to serving people, and patients would always trust her with their secrets,
even the bad ones. All her three victims had done something wrong: John Lamptey had two wives,
Jane Spencer lied to the cops about her husband beating her for the divorce money,
and Alana had been cheating on her husband. Lewis doesn't believe it, but Nathalie explains
all the clues behind the case: this is why Alana had been found drunk in a hotel bar,
dressed to the nines and without her wedding ring; her lover had even visited her at the hospital.
Nathalie admits having killed the Charleston Three for being sinners and Lewis leaves the cellar,
unsettled after hearing about his wife's secret. He starts believing Nathalie when he goes back
to the living room and watches another video, in it, Alana behaves awkwardly when ignoring a call
to her cellphone. The confirmation puts Lewis through an emotional breakdown and he starts
breaking things around the house as he cries out in fury. Afterward, he gets in his car and
leaves the house while Nathalie finds a piece of her phone and realizes she can use it as a tool
to finally free the tile shard from the floor. Lewis makes it to the lake he used to visit
with his wife and is approached by two cops, who ask him about his wounds and his address because
they're investigating a call that described a car like his. After checking his license and
the trunk of his car, they let him go, and Lewis decides to return home. He enters the cellar and
crouches in front of Nathalie to tell her she had no right to kill his wife before he had a
chance to talk to her, he also asks her to turn herself in. Nathalie responds by stabbing him on
his shoulder with the floor shard, then she starts kicking him as she tells him she's Cathy now and
she won't let him ruin her new happy life. Lewis manages to remove the shard from his shoulder,
but Nathalie punches the wound before running out of the room. In the kitchen, she looks for the gun
but doesn't find it, so she grabs a knife instead and returns to the cellar. Lewis is waiting for
her and tries to lock her in again, Nathalie puts her arm at the door to stop it. They wrestle for
a moment before Lewis runs away and makes it to the kitchen, where he finds his gun on the floor.
Nathalie arrives as he's picking it up and knocks it off his hand before starting a fight with him,
eventually, she manages to overpower him and steal the gun, which he points at him. At that
moment, they're interrupted by Alondra, who is entering the house with Lewis' daughter Summer.
Nathalie shoots Alondra, then captures Summer when she tries to reach her dad; she points the
gun at her head and tells him Summer isn't really his child. But that doesn't matter to Lewis, who
tells Nathalie she doesn't have to turn herself in, he won't say anything to anyone if she doesn't
hurt his daughter. Nathalie doesn't accept this because the police will trace her call anyway,
so Lewis tells him he's recorded everything she's said. This distracts Nathalie, and Summer
takes the chance to bite her arm and escape. Lewis wastes no time and jumps on Nathalie,
throwing her on the floor and choking her until he knocks her out - or so he thinks.
As soon as he takes a few steps away, Nathalie is standing up again, so Lewis shoots her before
leaving to find his daughter. He finds Summer hiding in the cellar and takes her away with him.
They stop by the office to take the USB stick with the recording and Summer notices Nathalie is gone,
so Lewis rushes her into the garage. He's getting Summer into the car when Nathalie finds him and
tries to shoot him, but the gun is out of ammo, so they start fighting again as Summer leaves the
car and goes outside. Nathalie hits Lewis with various garden tools until she overpowers him
and puts a pitchfork on his chest, intending to kill him. Lewis grabs the fork to stop it
from stabbing and pushes until he manages to hit Nathalie with it, causing her to fall back
against the broom he had used earlier to keep the garage door raised. Without the broom to hold it,
the door falls on her and traps her body as she falls unconscious. The movie ends with Lewis
hugging Summer and apologizing to her while calling her his child as the police arrive.