Episode 13 - Devil (2010)

Five strangers' day begins with an elevator ride in a Philadelphia office tower. But what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck and the trapped passengers who only expected to be together for a few minutes now face the revelation of their secrets, transgressions and dark past. Frightening events turn annoyance into terror as they begin to realize one of their own is the Devil himself.

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Hey, what's up, everybody? How's it going? How are you? How was your weekend? What have you been up to these past few days? Um, for me, I'm actually still re-watching the first few episodes of It Welcome to Derry. And so far, so good. I don't think they could have done this any better. Everybody seems to be praising it, and I think it's living up to the hype. Everybody is glued to the TV, anticipating the next episode. These horror-based shows have been killing it this year. Um, of course, we got The Last of Us Season 2. Um, and I don't care what anybody says, I think it was a damn good season, um, given the circumstances of what happens in part two, but it is what it is, so we just gotta wait for season three. And of course, we also had Alien Earth, and I also think that was another good show. So we're sitting on Welcome to Dairy, we're about midway through the first season, and I believe in about a week or two, we will be getting Stranger Things season five. And as I mentioned before, Mike Flanagan just recently wrapped up filming for his Carrie TV series. So, yeah, these shows are cooking. In other news, I have some major updates for you. So let's get into our horror news segment. In major breaking news, the OG cast of American Horror Story are reuniting for season 13 and is going to be setting up another coven uh um apocalypse reunion. So when I say OG cast, I mean Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billy Lord, Leslie Grossman, and of course our other horror queens slash icons, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, and none other than Jessica Lang herself. They're gonna be adding someone new to the cast, and that's gonna be Ariana Grande. Season 13 is set to release on Halloween of 2026, so I will keep you posted on information as it becomes available. Rumors have been circulating that Insidious 6, which just which just wrapped up filming, is either being Lynn Shea's last movie or the final installment, but Lynn Shea shuts shut down those rumors saying that they're just getting started. So we know there's more stories to tell, especially with Jason Blum, Orren Pelly, James Wand, and Lee Wanel all set to be producing. This is going to be set for release in August 21st, 2026. Also, in other news that I've stumbled upon, so I don't know how valid it is, but Evil Dead Burn, which we know is set to release in July of next year, is reported that the next chapter of the terrifying saga reignites the ancient curse with more intensity than ever before. When a group of graduate students studying paranormal folklore uncover a set of burnt Necronomicon pages in the ruins of an abandoned church deep in the Appalachian Woods, they unwittingly awaken a force far more sinister than any deadite ever released. Um, I looked it up to see if this is credible, and I could not find anything. Um, I actually saw that it said that the plot is being kept under wraps. So I don't know how credible this is, but I will keep you uh keep you posted as information becomes available. So, like I said, let's check let's take that with a grain of salt. That's it for the horror updates for this week. So, welcome back to Chill's Thrills in a podcast, our horror community podcast, where we review, analyze, and break down all things horror. This week we are going to be visiting Devil from 2010, which was directed by John Eric Dowdle, who frequently works with his brother Drew Dowdle. And you might be familiar with them. Um, they did the Pooh Keepsie Tapes in 2007, Quarantine in 2008, Devil 2010, like I just said, and another popular film, As Above So Below, in 2014. The screen screenplay by Brian Nelson was derived from a story by M. Knight Shyamalan, and it's the first and only installment of The Night Chronicles, which was a planned trilogy of standalone horror films. Despite a film of mixed reviews from critics, it went on to grow $63.4 million on a budget of only $10 million. Before we get started, I want to give you your spoiler warning. If you have not seen this film, this is where you should pause this episode, go check that out, and then come back and join us for the discussion. We have a movie to unpack, so let's get into it. Devil opens up with a title card saying, Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring lion lion, seeking who he may devour. Peter chapter 5, verse 8. As the open credits begin, we see an inverted scenic view of the business district in downtown Philadelphia. While we are introduced to our narrator, which we will later learn that this is the voice of one of the central characters, Ramirez, a security guard for the building. Ramirez opens up stating his mother would tell him a story about how the devil roams. He roams the earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on earth. Before claiming their souls, the ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them. I've always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale. As we venture into the building, Ramirez continues to dive into one of his mother's stories by saying, My mother's story would always begin the same way, with the suicide paving the way for the devil's arrival, and it would always end with the deaths of those trapped. We then see a janitor buffing the floor when suddenly a body falls from the sky onto a delivery truck, and the janitor is wearing ear protectors so of course he hears nothing. We're introduced to Detective Bowden sitting at a table with an unknown male who asks, Do you know the main reason people go back to drinking? and to take a guess. Bowden jokingly says the eagles, the man says resentment. And it is at that point we learn that the man is actually a sponsor for sobriety. So Bowden responds, That are we seriously talking about this again? To which the sponsor replies that it's important. Your ability to forgive is going to determine the quality of the rest of your life before anything else. Bowden responds by saying, Look, some things are beyond forgiveness. The sponsor says, You're already on your way. You've taken responsibility for your actions. That's more than half of the battle right there. But to truly feel free, you may need to finally start believing in something greater than yourself. Bowden then says, That sounds good, but when I think about the guy that killed my family, I have a tough time believing in much of anything. The sponsor replies, I'm just saying, leave yourself open to it. Bowden asks if they can just have breakfast for once and talk about normal stuff. The sponsor tells him, You could talk about normal stuff with everybody else. We cut to Detective Bowden arriving on the scene of the jumper, and we then meet Bowden's partner, Detective Markowitz. He greets Bowden by saying, You're gonna love this, and points to the top of the truck where the jumper's body is and sees the jumper is holding a pair of rosary beads in his hand, and he immediately looks up and noticing the surrounding buildings aren't tall enough to cause such an impact, Markowitz says, Yeah, it doesn't make sense, right? A guy hits a truck with this kind of force from a two-story building, and Bowden replies, He's definitely a jumper, and Markovitz says, Are you sure he wasn't thrown? So Bowden says he got he's got rosary beads in his hand, and that's not something you typically would grab in the middle of a struggle. Bowden greets a forensics tech by the name of Elsa. As Bowden climbs off of the truck, he looks down and notices water is running downhill, and reality sets in that there's no glass on the ground. The truck wasn't parked here, and when he made impact, the truck must have rolled. Bowden and Markowitz walk out into the street, and Bowden identifies the location of the building that the jumper jumped from, and it's down the street. In which Markowitz asks if your dead guy turned the corner, and Bowden points to a concrete barrier that's set up in the street, telling Markowitz that these things are made to bounce cars off of. So let's walk it. We then cut to the entrance of the building where we see where we spot two of our main characters. One is standing outside as one walks past, and he also walks into the building lobby. We see another main character working the security desk, answering the phone, and his name is Larson. Another one of our main characters, an older woman, is looking around, looking lost and confused. And finally, our last main character enters the lobby, and as the camera pans around, she proceeds to walk past the security desk. Larson stops her and informs her that she has to sign in. She responds that where is Ramsey? He knows me, and Larson responds that he's out today, so that means you got me, and that means you have to sign in. She says to him, Do I look like such a threat? And Larson responds, That don't blame me. They've got procedures. One of the main characters is seen walking outside, walks past Larson, and says, Ooh, keep dreaming, dog. Larson just kind of glances at him and then he looks at another security guard and tells him that he has to cover the sign in because some lawyers on 39 needs these papers that he's holding in his hand. The security guard replies that you're not taking the stairs again. And Larson responds, that what else is he gonna do to stay in shape? So the security guard says to 39, just get on the damn elevator, and you can tell Larson is resistance, and we'll learn why shortly. So the salesman vents the older woman, Larson, and the up the younger woman from earlier, who we now know her name is Sarah. They ask for the elevator to be held, in which Larson hosts the door open, and finally the gentleman seen standing outside the building, we learn his name is Tony. He rushes to the door that is almost closed, also asking the door be held, and that's when the salesman makes a little effort, basically being an asshole, but Tony makes it anyway. The elevator now sets to start moving, begins to play the usual elevator music, and the salesman who is standing behind Sarah is basically checking her out. And when he looks to his left, the older woman is staring right at him, knowing that he was checking her out, so he just shrugs his shoulders. After a few minutes, suddenly the elevator stops. So now we cut to the security office where one of the security guards played by Matt Craven as Lustig is watching a hockey game, and as another security guard walks in, and this is going to be Ramirez, our narrator from the beginning. He walks in with coffee and asks why elevator 6 is in inspection mode. So Lustig calls Dwight via walkie-talkie, and we learn that he's the building engineer and tells them there is a problem. And Dwight responds that he knows he's already up on 35 fixing it. Lustig asks the elevator, and Dwight says, No, the broken window. We now realize that that's where the jumper came from. Lustig tells Dwight elevator 6 is in inspection mode and people are stuck inside. So Dwight asks if he's sure and are is he sure that he's reading it right since his eyes aren't what they used to be. So Lustig tells him that I'll ask your mom the next time I have her bent over the console, and which to me that was just unnecessary and cringy as hell. But anyway, Dwight says that his mom is 78, so have at it. Lustig tells him, go up to the machine room and check it out. We now venture back into the elevator where Larson is frantically pressing buttons and hope that the elevator will start moving again. The older woman asks if they have emergency procedures. Larson responds and tells her that he doesn't know. He's just a temp. And he's he just started working there. The older woman says, Well, don't you service these things? And the salesman says, Try hitting the emergency button, and he does. We hear the bell ring on the elevator, and the woman just keeps going on again and again. Don't you keep up with your equipment, completely ignoring the fact that he literally just told her that he just started. So, how the hell is he supposed to know the answer to these questions? Again, if he just started, he says, I don't know. Like I said, she immediately asks, Don't you have a walkie-talkie? And Larson, who is visibly getting annoyed, says, No, I didn't think I needed. So here she goes again, being annoying, says, Don't you think it would have been good to have? And before she could finish what she's saying, he tells her to shut up. And Tony says, Yeah, take it easy. Clearly, he's annoyed. To which he says, Honestly, I probably should have snapped sooner. But anyway, Larson says, frustrated, I mean, seriously. Dude, I get it, because she just keeps going on and on, and she she's just disregarding the fact of everything that he's saying. But anyway, the dumbass salesman asks, You don't have a walkie-talkie. Were you not just listening? Like, this shut the hell up. Lustig comes over the intercom saying that, hey people, we see you in there, and an older woman shouts that they're stuck. Lady, please, just this come on. I think he knows that, but all right. Lustig then says, Hang tough. We gotta build an engineer on his way, and Vince says, When's the last time you heard someone say hang tough? And let it Lustig then asks, What did you say? To which Vince says, Nothing. Lustig then asks again, What did you say? And Vince says nothing. So Sarah then says, Is he picking a fight? Lustig says, Can one of you look towards the camera and say something loud and clear, please? It's becoming clear Lustig is having trouble hearing them. So Vince says very loud that your building sucks. Lustig confirms it by saying, I can't hear you. The speaker in the car is supposed to let us talk both ways, but you can hear me. Larson says loudly, it's working on this end, yeah. And the older woman responds, At this point, we're just gonna call her call her woman, since there's two, but one has a name, the other one doesn't. But um so after he yells, she makes the comment that he just said he can't hear us. He didn't say that we should talk louder. Larson reaches for his cell phone in an attempt to call the front desk, and Vince tells him that he's not going to get a signal in the elevator, and Larson says that he just needs to call his job so he doesn't get fired over this. My question is, how would he get fired over this? I'm sure that they know that he's stuck in the elevator at this point, but even then, it's not hard to say I was stuck in the elevator. It's not like you weren't doing your job, you were delivering documents, so like relax. Now back to the cell phone situation, Larson obviously has no signal, so even more annoyed, he says that this is typical bullshit. So he then asks if any of them have signal, and then he looks around at everybody, but then Sarah says that she has one bar, and after a brief awkward exchange, she gives Larson her phone. Larson does get a hold of somebody, but shortly thereafter he loses signal. Vince then says, At least we've got tunes, and then he starts singing along with the elevator music before saying to the woman, Come on, Grandma, I'm sure you know the words. Sarah tells him to not be a jerk, to which Vince responds that he's sorry, he's sorry, Miss Manners. Did he offend your noble sensibilities? And Tony says, Oh, why don't you just lay off? Vince responds to him, Why don't you just suck a butt? So Tony just stares at him while Vince says that this is just great. Let's pick on pick on the nice guy for bringing a little levidity. And Sarah suggests that maybe we all should stop talking for a while. We finally cut to Dwight arriving on the roof, and it is visibly windy, so the wind blows his hat off, to which this idiot runs after it before nearly falling off the roof himself. For me, I already don't like heights as it is, so if the wind knocks off my head, it can keep it. Just keep whatever, keep going. We cut back to our detective Bowden and Markowitz, who are still walking to the building. The building the the delivery truck itself could not have traveled that far to where they're still walking. So during the conversation between the two, it is revealed that Bowden is 90 days sober. And then as walk as they're walking and talking, they step on glass, to which there's a janitor sweeping up the glass, and Bowden asks him if he would happen to have a broken window up there, and he responds, yeah. So Bowden then questions, is it big enough to fit a person through it? So the janitor responds and says that he supposes. Bowden tells him to stop sweeping and that he is declaring this a crime scene. Bowden looks up and says, Car 602, while saying that over his walkie, there's a big piece of glass falling from the sky, and he sees it and says, What the hell is that? He then tells Markowitz to look out as the glass hits the ground. The two of them dodge at final destination style and then tells the janitor that he might want to go upstairs and secure that better. The narrator, aka Ramirez, says that in her story, innocent people always die. Poor souls just trying to get trying to help out who didn't realize what they were doing and what they were dealing with. Him, meaning the devil, doesn't take kindly to those who stand in his way. We then see Dwight looking down the elevator shaft, looking down at the elevator before opening a control panel and then calling Lustic over the walkie-talkie to say, hey man, it doesn't look like it's actually in inspection mode. The circuits look just fine. So Lustig suggests turning off the power briefly to reset it, and he'll tell the group of the group in the elevator that the power will be cut off briefly in an attempt to reset it. We cut to Vince, reading the inspection certificate saying inspected and certified August 12th by G Carson. Followed by, do you know what they should do? They should go pay G Carson a visit when they get out of there and says what we think of his inspecting prowess. Lustig comes over the intercom and tells them that they're gonna flip off the lights for one second to see if there's a short in the breaker. Panic immediately sets in and Vince asks if they're gonna cut off the power. He just said he was gonna cut off the power. But anyway, the woman asks if that means that they could drop. Lustig reiterates that they'll be fine. He just doesn't want them to freak out. The lights then shut off. Vince and the woman start to panic. Tony tells them that it's nothing, just to relax. The woman then shouts, get off of me, so it's clear that somebody grabbed her, and then the lights come back on, and we see Larson is the somebody that had grabbed her. The woman visibly shocked as she says, Get off of me again. Larson tells her that he is sorry, and Vince asks Larson what's wrong with him, as if he hasn't been a douchebag this entire time. My guy, shut up. Larson explains that when he was younger, his brother locked him in the trunk of a car, so essentially he's claustrophobic. The fear of tight spaces, in which my guy, I'm right there with you. I absolutely hate tight spaces. My the way my anxiety is set up, it will not allow it. So um he immediately gets uncomfortable, and like the pastor that ends up in the coffin buried alive in the nun, the group crawling over the bones as as above and so below, or better yet, when Lisa is crawling through the underground tunnel in Blair Witch 2016. So, yes, I'm definitely right there with you. I get it. Let me just say that his brother honestly is a jackass for that. Like, and it was for six hours. I would have passed out, like, I would have been no good. So as Larson continues to reveal that he has trouble with tight spaces, and you could visibly see in his face that he is scared shitless. Tony looks up at the ceiling and starts pressing upwards to open the safety hats to allow Larson some relief and more air. You know what? Good for you, sir. That was a noble deed, because I would have never thought of that. Larson sees the cables and asks if they can get out through there. Sir, who the hell do you think you are? Indiana Jones, Spider Man? Like, let's be real. Who's rope climbing out of an elevator? Can you picture the old woman climbing up that? Zo, like, no, let's just come back to reality. Tony asks him, What are you gonna do? Shimmy up? You'll be a lot safer inside. Dwight asks if it worked, and Lustig says nope, that they are still stuck. We cut out to the Philadelphia skyline while Sinister style music plays. Back in the security office, Lustig is hang hanging up the phone and Ramirez asks, What's wrong? So Lustig tells him that there was a jumper from the window of the 35th floor. Ramirez looks like he knows something is up. We're now back inside the elevator where Vince is standing in front of the mirror trying to adjust and freshen up. I don't know, he's adjusting his tie. He then says that when they get out of here, that they're gonna need a good rest and hands the woman a business card from mattress mania, followed by this is us. Everybody's had this mattress for too long. Am I right? You didn't follow that advice by flipping it over every few months, and now you've wanna groove into it. Tony and Sarah are just over him at this point, and you know what? I am too. That's your sales pitch. Everybody is stuck in the elevator. Nobody, I mean nobody is thinking about a damn mattress. He proceeds to advertise his business saying, and you think what you think, well, I'm used to it, so hey. But I do miss the way it felt when it came fresh out of that box. The woman just looks at him and her facial expression is kind of funny. Vince then basically insults her, insults her and says, Look at those shoes. They look like they've been through the mail. They're saying someone, and points at her, deserves a better place to lay down. The woman asks him if he's insulting her shoes. Not gonna lie, I actually laughed out. Out of everything that he had just said, that she was she was focused on an insult. Yes, ma'am, he definitely was insulting them. I kind of wish they showed her shoes just to add to the laugh factor, but I mean, horror isn't surprised. Supposed to be funny, so but I'm sure we we all could agree that there are a lot of horror movies that have something funny or funny movement funny moment in it. Vince doesn't even acknowledge the question, he actually tries to change the subject by saying, The point is a new mattress will cost a lot less than you think. You don't have to be as well off as this one, and he points to Sarah, to which she responds that she's not that well off. So Vince tells her, What makes him good at selling mattresses is he can look at a person's clothes and know exactly how much they can afford to spend. And you lady, you're no super sleeper. As the elevator music continues to play, Tony comments that they keep playing the same song over and over and over. The woman, also annoyed with the music, says, Can't they just turn the music off? Sarah moves away from Vince suggesting that he may have touched her ass. So she asks if he just touched her ass, to which he responds, You wish, sweetheart. And she then responds that she doesn't know who he thinks he is, but to keep his hands off of her. So he crosses his arm saying, Whatever. In that moment, the light begins to flicker, and Tony says that they must be working on the light again. Lustig in the security office sees this and calls Dwight on the radio, telling him that they just lost power in the elevator again. So he questions if that's him, but he then answers that he can't do that from the basement. But he's looking up the elevator shaft right now and can't see anything wrong with it. Lustig responds that the lights keep shortening out and the passengers are getting scared. So as he as a suggestion, he does he wants to do a reset of the elevator to see if that helps. Inside the elevator, the lights continue to flicker, the camera pans around the elevator as the woman nervously keeps an eye on Larson. Dwight radios back to Lustig asking if that helped, and he answers that there was no change. So Dwight tells him the only other thing that he can think to do would be going back up to the roof, climbing down, and resetting the car manually. So Lars Lustig agrees for him to do that and to tell him to call him when he gets up there. While monitoring the camera, the monitor kind of glitches, and for a brief moment, Ramirez sees the face on the screen. While checking the elevator shaft, a noise catches Dwight's attention, so he goes to check it out and discovers that it is just a raccoon. So while chasing it out, and out of nowhere, he looks up and an elevator falls down. He immediately has to fall to the ground to avoid being crushed by an incoming elevator. Back upstairs, Ramirez and Lustig continue watching the monitor as the lights continue to flicker inside the elevator before instantly shutting off. Now in the pitch black, Vince comments inspected by G Carson. A low rumble is heard and Larson asks what that was. He thought he just heard something. The light briefly comes back and the camera zooms in on Sarah and some sort of scuffle is heard, loud banging and thumping. When the light returns, we see Sarah is on the floor, and Tony asks her if she's alright, and she answers that she thinks someone pulled on her blouse, and the woman tells her that she's bleeding. Tony helps Sarah get back on her feet along with Ben. Once Sarah gets up, she reaches for her back and sees that there's blood on her hand, commenting that she she got cut. As they look on, Ramirez questions what's going on in there, and Lustig answers that he doesn't know, adding that they're just scared. But Ramirez points out that he thinks the lady talking about Sarah got hurt. Inside the elevator, Sarah lifts up her shirt, revealing a pretty bad wound on her back. It's not a bite, it's not a scratch, but whatever it was fucked her up. Tony is trying to relay a message to Lustig, and Lustig can't make out what he's saying. But at this point, Tony is highly annoyed with the music to the point where he yells to turn off the music. Ramirez tells Lustig that maybe they don't like the music, and Lustig asks if the music is still going, and he responds, yeah. He then tells him to turn it off, it's probably driving them nuts, and points to the kill switch to turn it off. Meanwhile, Vince notices blood on his jacket and attempts to cover it by folding his arms over the stain. Lustig over the intercom asks what happened to her, but nobody has to answer. Sarah remarks that it feels like something bit her. Tony asks if anybody has anything sharp on them that might have cut her. The woman answers no, and Vince nods his head no, but it doesn't last long as Larson notices the blood on his jacket, asking why does he have blood on him? So Vince responds, holding up his hands that also have blood on them, commenting that she, Sarah, fell into him. And the woman replies, So you cut her? He answers no, something must have happened to her, and then she fell into him, adding that she probably did it to herself. At this point, everybody questions him and Larson responds, she bit her own back. The woman asks if he thinks that this is a bite, and Tony tells her nobody got bit. So Larson comments what else could have done it. Tony asks that he'll tell them what could have done it. A serrated blade could have done that. So he asks Vince if he would happen to have a knife or a serrated blade on him. So of course he answers no. Tony isn't convinced, asking if he minds if they search his pockets to where Vince responds that yes, he does mind, and uses the Uno reverse tactic by throwing it back at Tony, asking if he minds being searched. So Tony raises his hands and tells him to go right ahead. My whole thing about this interaction is if Vince knows that he didn't do anything or knows that he doesn't have anything, then he could have done it. Why not just let them check him and denying that it just denying the request, it just gives suspicious vibes if I'm being honest. Vince being extremely defensive, accuses Sarah of having a serrated blade on her. So Sarah responds, asking him if he's seriously suggesting that she would have done that to herself. He tells her that he doesn't know. Larson chimes in, telling Vince to give him another reason to kick his ass. So where Vince responds to Larson saying, Bro, take it easy. And Larson responds, Bro, I'm not your bro. This kind of goes back to the beginning where Vince is walking past the desk and says to Larson, Keep dreaming, dog. Lustig over the intercom asks Sarah if she can show if she can turn to the camera and show them what happened to her. So she turns and lifts up her shirt, revealing the wound. So Lustig tells Ramirez that they have to call the police. In the next scene, we see Bowden outside talking to the forensics tech when a male dispatch comes across the radio reporting that the reporting the incident that Ramirez and Lustig just called in. Bowden looks around, commenting that 333 Locusts has to be nearby before realizing that it's the building where the suicide report came from. So he informs Dispatch that he's already there. The woman from Forensics tells Bowden that the call was convenient, to which he responds that he doesn't make the calls. They just come for him. As he's walking towards the building, he calls out to his partner Markowitz, and Markowitz asks, How is his girlfriend? talking about the woman from Forensics, who he was just talking to, and Bowden jokingly tells him to shut up. In the security office, Ramirez is looking through the footage to find the face from the glitch. So Lustig asks, What is he doing? And Ramirez tells him that he thought he saw something. He finds it, finds the image, and asks Lustig if he sees it. So he answers that that's just a grain in the image. It's a mistake. Just like when people see Jesus in a pancake. Meanwhile, Ramirez is clutching his cross chain into his hand. Ramirez isn't buying it, so Lustig tells him that he's freaking him out, adding that they need to convey calm to the people in the elevator because they are relying on them and he needs to stop the shit right now. Back in the elevator, Larson and Tony are trying to pull open the elevator doors, and Tony comments that he doesn't even know why they're trying it. They're in the express shaft. There's not going to be another opening until the 23rd floor. Larson tells him that they've got to be they've got to be close, and the woman asks if the elevator could fall because they have to be 20 floors up dangling over nothing. Tony answers that he doubts it. Larson responds asking if they can stop talking about that in this moment. Tony suggests that they give it one more one more try one more time, and as they prep to begin to try again, Vince comes over to help, but Larson tells him to stay away from him. Vince comments that he can help. He just wants to get out of there too. Larson responds that why don't he sit his creepy ass down in a corner over there so they can all keep an eye on him. Tony and Larson give one more final attempt but are unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Lustig escorts Bowden and Markowicz to the security office. Bowden asks Lustig why he thinks that there was an assault in the elevator, so Lustig explains that Sarah seemed to be having words with one of the other passengers just before it happened, and now it looks like they're all keeping an eye on him and points to Vince. Bowden asks if there's any way to communicate with the passenger, so Lustig tells him that they have an open line, explaining that he can talk to them, but there's an issue preventing them from hearing what they're saying. Bowden introduces himself to the passengers, informing them that they're working hard to get them out of there. It shouldn't be much longer, so just remain calm. He asks Lustig how soon until they can get in there, and Lustig answers that the building engineer is working on it now. Usually they get these things going and resolved pretty quick. Bowden asks if the engineer works for the building or the elevator company, so he answers that the engineer works for the building. Bowden tells Ramirez to call the elevator company and have them send someone and tells Markovist to call the fire department and have them send some guys as well. Bowden comments to Lustig, at least one of their staff is aboard talking about Larson. Larson, Ramirez, and Lustic all work for Caraway Security, and that's the security responsible for the building. Lustig tells Bowden that Larson is just a temp. He started the day before, so Bowden suggests that they call the temp agency and get all the information that they can on him. Bowden asks about the others, and Lustig answers that they don't have names for the other people. Ramirez tells Lustic to tell him about the face on the monitor, so Bowden asks what face, and Lustig tells him that it's nothing. And Ramirez responds that he saw a face and continues to encourage Lustig to tell him. Lustig explains that Ramirez is kind of religious and to just ignore him, and he turns to Ramirez and tells him to stop it. Bowden comes over the anticom telling the passengers that he would like to get a sense of who they all are. So one at a time he would like them to hold up their driver's license to the camera so he knows who he's talking to. And Lustig comments to Bowden that that's a good idea, and Bowden responds, he knows. The woman holds up her license, so he tells her to try and get it closer to the camera, but the letters are just too small. So he asks if there's a sharpness setting on the monitor, but there isn't. That's as good as it gets. Lustig walks Bowden to the front desk to give him the visitor's log, and he tells Markovitz to account for everyone on the log and find out which one of these people didn't show up for their appointments. In the security office, Ramirez is on the phone and he notices the lights are starting to flicker again. Sarah tells them to keep Vince away from her, and while the lights continue to flicker, she has a brief vision of blood everywhere in the elevator as they all are on the floor dead. It's not really a vision, it's more of a I think it's a hallucin hallucination. But then the lights shut off and glass shatters behind Sarah, and everyone seems to be panicking as there's thumping and banging being heard. And when the lights come back, they see Vince is on the ground with a shard of glass in his neck. Out at the entrance, Markowitz tells Bowden that he's got some information on the guard, but before he can tell him, Ramirez rushes out to them, telling them that something else is happening. So they all rush back to the office. Bowden sees Vince is on the floor dead. Bowden tells Dispatch over the radio that they have a possible 187 and he needs backup immediately. Lested gives Bowden instructions on how to rewind the footage frame by frame. He tells them over the intercom for them to keep breathing. They're going to get them through it, just take it easy. Ramirez comments So today, someone committed suicide, a woman got hurt, now a man is dead. So Bowden asks, What is he trying to say? So Ramirez asks, How many times have you seen a child fall and barely missed the edge of the table with their head? Why is it so rare that they hit it? Bowden tells him to get to his point and he picks up a piece of toast and drops it and it lands jelly side down. Lustig asks, What is he doing? He's embarrassing himself. Ramirez comments that when he's near, everything goes wrong. Lustig tells him that the police don't want to hear that stuff right now, but Ramirez ignores him, commenting, sometimes he takes human form and he torments the damned on earth before stealing them away. Where he comes from, they call it the devil's meeting. Bowden is not for the games. He responds, is this guy for real? Ramirez asks that he must consider that one of those people might be the devil. Bowden dismisses it, telling him that he needs to stop telling campfire stories and get his head in the game. Bowden points out Larson on the monitor to where Markowitz is telling him that the lights go down and then they come back up, he's closest to Vince. But he's moving away. So he asks Markowitz, What's about the information that you found out about Larson? Markowitz tells him that he's a real piece of work. So Bowden calls out his criminal history, repeating assault, assault, assault several times, and then asks, he beat a guy into a coma with the baseball bat, commenting that that's great. These are the kind of guys you hire you hire for security. So Lustig answers, like he said, Larson is just a temp. Back inside the elevator, the woman asks if the mirror could break from him hitting it, and Tony nods his head, no. Larson questions, what is the cop doing out there? And Tony bluntly answers that he's probably trying to figure out which one of them is the murderer. In the next scene, we see the fire depart department arriving, and while grabbing their gear, the narrator tells us in the story, men would always try to fight him. The devil with force, but some battles cannot be fought with weapons. Bowden gives the group instructions to clear space between the camera and the baddie so he can see them, but don't touch it. Because it's a crime scene now, and even though they're stuck in there, he expects them to do as little damage to it as humanly possible. He checks the stat the status of the elevator and the elevator company, and Bermirians tells him that they're now out of business and Bowden isn't happy about it. He comments a shard of glass sliced up and into the jugular is definitely not an accident. And as he continues to analyze this analyze the situation, he questions who chooses a contained room with three witnesses for a killing. Unless they're so worked up they can't control themselves. These people are shook up, but they don't look like murderers, adding that he's missing something. He comes over the intercom asking for a volunteer to help him out. So Tony volunteers, and Bowden points out that there's a piece of paper hanging out of his pocket, instructing him to be very careful when he takes it out. He wants him to take it out and hold it up to the camera. Bowden reads the name, Vince McCormick. Lustig reads off the return address, it's for the Better Business Bureau, and they have an office on the 35th floor. So Lustig and Bowden head out to go look into it. Inside the elevator, Sarah comments to Larson that she's never seen a person die, but he responds, neither has he. Tony chimes in, it's pretty awful, huh? And Larson asks if if he has, and so Tony explains that he spent some time in Afghanistan. You see some things that you wish you hadn't. And in that moment, Larson asks if he's been trained to kill people, and Tony just responds with a common phrase that only veterans would know what that means. Bowden stops by the office where the jumper jumped from, and forensic tech is in there, so he asks how's the jumper shaping up, to which she answers, if he can take a look at the suicide note. Most of it makes sense, but then it ends with I can hear the devil's footsteps drawing near. She comments that usually suicide notes are either all crazy or all rational, but this one is both. We cut to the next scene, we see the fire department arrive at a set of elevators and attempt to use an elevator key on the door, but the key isn't catching. So then they move to try the halligan, which is I think it looks like a big ass crowbar, but anyway, that doesn't work. Meanwhile, Tony opens the hatch of the elevator and comments that if he can get up there, maybe he can figure out what's wrong with it. Adding he's a mechanic and he's pretty good with this sort of thing. So he climbs up and out of nowhere, Sarah yells that he's trying to escape. And in that moment, Larson grabs his leg and pulls him back inside. Ma'am, how is he gonna escape? There's no elevator openings anywhere else, that's nearby anyway, and he would have to, like he said, shimmy all the way up to the roof. He even told Larson earlier in the film that he wouldn't be able to climb up. Anyway, Tony questions, what the hell is he doing? And Larson responds that they're all gonna stay right there until it's over. Tony comments that they knew what he was doing. He told them, yelling that he doesn't know him, so don't touch him. We cut to the next scene and we see Bowden speaking to an employee who's telling him that it is not in their policy to discuss cases under review. It's it kind of damages the reputation of their member businesses. So Bowden tells him that someone just killed him on his way there, and he needs to know who knew he was coming there and who wanted him dead. The employer responds that the line was stretched around the block. The guy was a real scumbag. Three years ago, he started one of those Ponzi schemes, and when it collapsed, a lot of people lost their assets. One guy even killed himself over it. Bowden asks if he has a list of people that got burned by him, so he answers, yeah, for the ones that filed, and Baden requests the list. In the next scene, some Tony suggests that they get to know each other a little bit, offering to be searched, to which we see that he's not carrying anything suspicious. So Larson steps up to search him while Tony tells him that he's next. Bottom returns to the security office telling Markowitz that there's a good chance one of their people didn't sign in. And he hands him the list from the employee commenting that the person might be on that list, explaining their victim, Vance, lost a lot of people, a lot of money, and that this list is for the ones that filed complaints. So the killer's probably smart enough not to be on both lists, telling him to look for the one that didn't sign in. Lustig asks if he wants the video of just the guy who died or also the girl that got hurt, and Bowden answers that he wants all of it. Since they got in the elevator, he wants that footage as well. Ramirez shows him the video of the face from earlier with Bowden asks if that's what he's talking about. Ramirez comments that everybody believes in him a little bit, even guys like him who pretend that they don't. So in that moment, Bowden kind of just stares at him and then briefly reaches in his pocket and puts a folded up paper in front of him. So Ramirez asks what it is. He explains that it is an apology note left at the site of a hit and run. His wife and son were killed down on Bethlehem Pike five years ago, but that's okay, because whoever did it is sorry. Bowden comments that you can tell by the heartfelt apology on the back of a car washed coupon. So no, he doesn't believe in the devil. We don't need him. People are bad enough by themselves. In that moment, Bowden sees something on the footage that catches his attention, so he tells Ramirez to stop the tape and back it up. So do you remember earlier in the film when Sarah Sarah insinuated that Vince may have touched her? Well, this is the angle from the camera in that exact moment, and we see Vince never actually touched her. So Bowden comments that she was acting like he grabbed her, but on the other screen, he sees Tony is searching Larson. This has got to be the longest search ever, like, because they should have been finished at. Bowden questions, what is she up to, Sarah? Then he comes over the intercom requesting that they keep their hands off of each other and leave the police work to him. He'll be in there any moment. We cut to Dwight lowering himself down the shaft on this sketchy ass piece of wood attached to a single cord connected to a pulley. And he doesn't appear to be connected to any safety harness. So in the event that he would fall, he would be caught. I don't give a shit how much my salary is. You'll never catch me on that shit. I already have a fear of heights. So that's a hard no for me. I'll pass. We then see inside the elevator, the woman moves Vince's leg off of her, and Larson kicks the legs back, telling her to stop it. So she tells him she doesn't like Vince touching her. He's touching her and she doesn't like it. But in a stern voice, he responds, Stop pushing him onto me. Defensively, she pulls out pepper spray, ordering him to stand back. Larson comments, oh hell no. I know you're not doing what it looks like you're doing. Tony tells her, if she sprays that in the elevator, she's going to blind all of them. In that moment, she presses the trigger to spray Larson and it failed, it fails. So he smacks it out of her hand and picks it up. Meanwhile, in the security office, Lusty calls off with Dwight over the radio, asking where he is, and adding that he's gotta stop disappearing and continues calling him. We see Dwight lowering himself and he's unable to reach for his radio. He actually almost falls when like birds fly out of the shaft quickly, I guess. I don't know. But they startle him. But what he doesn't know that he can't see is part of the cable, the clip that was attaching to the cord, is starting to bend. So it's only a matter of time at this moment. While this is happening, Larson shows the spray to the woman reading the instructions to use by October 21st, 1987. Tony chimes in that she was scared. He wouldn't be defending her if the spray actually worked. In an enclosed confined space, that would be the worst space to do that. Not to mention, if one of them has any respiratory issues like asthma, they'd probably die. There's no ventilation for the spray to escape. So if anything, it'll just linger in there until they're able to get the doors open. And that that would be the worst time of their life. I worked security and I had pepper spray. I don't know how the hell I did it, but while I was driving, I activated it and my arm was sitting on the trigger. So it was spraying. And I had to pull over, roll the windows down, I had to give it a minute, and just inside of a car, so I can only imagine inside of an elevator. Larson responds that she tried to pepper spray him, and suddenly a loud crash is heard above them. So we can only assume that Dwight, he actually fell. They can hear Lustig over the radio, and the the woman comments that they're being saved. As we see Bowden, Lustig, and Ramirez watch over the monitor, the passengers are signaling that they're that they can hear them. Bowden tells Lustig that they can hear they can hear Dwight moving in the shaft, and Lustig asks, then why is he not answering? We the audience, we see Dwight's lifeless body laying on top of the elevator as Lustig is still calling him over and over and over that this is serious. He needs to pick up. At what point do you realize if he isn't answering, there's a reason he he's not answering? Honestly, Lustig actually he kind of caused him to fall in the first place because Dwight was actually trying to grab his radio to answer his dumb ass. As they look up at the ceiling, they see blood, and then they realize that he could seriously be hurt. So Tony tries to open the hatch, but he can't open the hatch because Dwight's body is laying directly on it. Meanwhile, Lustig, he's still calling him like, dude, please stop. Like you're doing the most. You have all the clues right in front of you. He's not gonna answer. He's hurt or probably worse. Bowden asks, What floor did Dwight enter the shaft from? Lustig responds that he entered from the roof. So Bowden heads off to go check. While Lustig continues call continues to call him, outside we see additional police units arrive. Bowden reaches the roof and looks down, confirming that Dwight is impaled right on top of the elevator. Hurt real bad, possibly dead. Markowitz tells Bowden the people inside the elevator can hear their radios, and Larson confirms that they actually can hear. So Bowden instructs them to switch to another channel, adding that the car is stuck on 21, so Markowitz needs to tell the fire department that they'll have to go through the wall on the 21st floor. Lustig interrupts, telling them that they can't just go through a wall, but Bowden tells him, yes, they can. That's why the building has insurance. Lustig throws the radio in pure frustration. He acts like he'll lose his job over it when this is technically an emergency. Bowden is reviewing footage and he sees Sarah signing in, so he identifies her as Sarah Caraway. And if you've been paying attention, you will recognize the emblem on the security, the security company patch, sorry, on the shirt, it says Caraway Security. But we'll circle back to that to that a little later. Bowden continues saying that they know the security temp temp is Ben Larsen. They know McCormick. So what other names are unaccounted for? Markowitz answers Jane something. Looks like Kowski. It's she it looks like she is for the woman. Bowden tells him, Find the footage of this guy, and he points to Tony. So in the next scene, we see the fire department moving office furniture out of the way for the wall that they'll be working through. Bowden still reviewing footage, sees the woman in the lobby, and he sees that she steals a wallet from a lady's purse and walks off. Markowitz comments, Did she just steal that lady's wallet? Bowden responds, so Vince was a scam artist, this woman Jane's a thief, Sarah's a liar, and the guard is a thug. That's quite the proof that they have, but it's still trying to find Tony on a surveillance, and out of nowhere, Bowden sees a sudden flash of everybody inside the elevator being covered in blood, dead on the ground, asking what that was, but nobody else saw it. So after tracking Tony, they see him walk in and he has a satchel with him. And in that moment, they realize that that satchel is not in the elevator with him. So Bowden questions, where did he put it? Just as Bowden steps out, Lustic grabs his attention to the monitor as they watch the light start flickering again. Inside the elevator, Larson yells out that he can't take this anymore. Sarah yells out for none of them to come near her. Tony comments that maybe if he could just check the wiring, but before he can finish his sentence, it goes pitch black and it's darkened for quite some time. The sound of a scuffle and banging are also heard again. Larson screams, what the hell is going on? He then strikes a match to get some sort of light, and as soon as he does, if you look closely behind him, there is something standing behind him, and it takes the light right back out. The loud thumbing continues all around them. Sarah pleads and cries, and they're only heard as she yells out to turn on the lights. Can you imagine being in this shit? A tight confined space, especially in the dark. I couldn't do it. Like I said, the way my anxiety is set up, I'd lose my shit. Aside from having a fair heights, I'm also claustrophobic. So it I'd be no good in this situation. I'd probably pass out worse. Suddenly the lights come back on, and now the woman is dead. She's been hung. She's been hung from the wires that are hanging from the light fixture. They're wrapped around her neck. And everyone jumps. Literally, everyone jumps. The remaining passengers jump back against the wall, and everybody in the office jumps back from the monitor. Bowden has seen enough. He shuts down the building, telling Markowitz to bring everyone down to the lobby. Nobody comes in or out except them. Lustig asks him, Who does he think this is? Who does he think is doing it? And he responds that there's three people in there and they're all capable, but Lustig doubts that Sarah is doing it, so Bowden isn't ruining out anybody. Markowitz asks Lustig if they have a shutoff valve because the fire department is requesting that it be shut off. So he tells him that it's in the basement and he'll take him there. Ramirez comments that they're bad people. That's why they're there. And Bowden responds, no. Two of them are there because they just got on the wrong elevator. Ramirez doubles down saying, Yeah, and he just happened to have the wrong job, and you just happened to have the wrong call. As he approaches the monitor, Ramirez comments that he, the devil, never does this in secret. There's a reading that they're the audience. We see outside the police are setting up barricades, and as a woman approaches the building, she is then stopped by an officer who tells her no one's getting in the building. No one's getting in right now. And she explains that she's supposed to meet somebody upstairs, and the officer tells her that she's going to have to call them and tell them she won't make it. While this interaction is occurring, the narrator tells us that he, the devil, always kills the last victim in front of the person they love most. To make cynics of us all. So right here in this scene, this could possibly be setting up something to either throw us off or confirm. But we'll figure this out later. In the next scene, we see Tony trying to get the woman down as Sarah tells him not to touch the woman, and he explains that he's not going to leave her there. Larson asks where is he going to put her? But he responds that he hadn't thought that far ahead. Larson helps lift her up so Tony can unwrap the wire from her neck. While doing so, Tony comments it's funny how all of this stuff starts happening right after he started working there. Sir, how do you know that? Have you even been in a building before? What facts do you have to make that assumption or to even what evidence supports it? Larson throws it right back and comments that it seems to him he's the only one that knows where the cables are. Once she's been unwrapped, her body just falls to the ground as they look in shock. Tony approaches her body and tries to close her eyelids, but Larson tells him that that doesn't work until they've been dead for a few hours. And Tony just looks at him like, Who knows this shit? Who like who would know that type of information? I would have looked at him like that too. That's such an odd comment to say. Down in the lobby, Bowden explains to Markowitz that Tony came in with a satchel, so he adds, You see a signing desk and you want to avoid it, where do you go? They both look around and then fix their eyes on the bathroom. So they go check it out. Bowden feels under the sink and locates the satchel, and when he opens it up, it's full of tools. Markowitz asks if those could be used to rig an elevator, but he has no idea. But he points out he didn't sign in and then he hit these tools. This doesn't say much because they saw him on camera entering the building, and if they continue watching the footage, they would have seen him go right to the bathroom. So how could he rig the elevator when he never he left the tools in the elevator and he never even went near the elevator until he dropped off the tools? We cut to Ramirez and see that he's picking up the intercom speaker and then he starts praying for them. Meanwhile, Sarah tells Larson that she doesn't even know his name, so he introduces himself and she does it right back and they shake hands. Tony extends his hand to shake her hand and introduces himself, and they both just look at him. I guess Tony felt some type of way, so he asks Larson, where did his claustrophobia go? He's never seen a claustrophobia come and go like that. Larson challenges it, asking if he's trying to say something, and Tony tells him that he didn't do it, and he very much doubt that Sarah did it. So that leaves him accusing Larson's claustrophobia as an act, and then calls him a liar. Next thing you know, they start fighting, and she starts yelling, telling Ben to kill him. Kill him before he kills them. But then the tables turn because now Tony is whooping that ass. Now all of a sudden, she wants to yell for them to stop. And while looking in the camera, yells for for them to get them out of the elevator. Bowden rushes back in the office, and while Ramirez is still praying, he just takes the speaker from him and then he orders them to back away from each other, instructing everyone to get to a corner and place their hands on the wall so everyone sees that they aren't up to anything, commenting that they won't have to keep it up long. The building is surrounded by police. Bowden asks Ramirez in a hypothetical conversation that he's not really having, how would this story end? Ramirez wastes no time and he answers, they all die. He adds that it's not his fault, they made the choices that brought them there. Markowicz returns to Bowden with information telling him Sarah has a criminal record too. She has three counts of blackmailing rich married men. And now where this gets interesting is a couple of years ago the arrests stopped. Guess why? Her name is Sarah Caraway. Bowden Bowden questions Caraway Caraway, and Markovitz responds, yeah, she married into the family. So Bolden asks, why is she there? And then he tells him, according to the sign-in sheet, she was going to see a lawyer on the 42nd floor named Wayne Kazan. Bowden goes out into the lobby and calls out for Wayne Kazan. And when he locates him, he asks if he had a meeting with Sarah. So Wayne responds that he doesn't know, and then he asks him if he has a subpoena. Bowden tells him that he can tell him that much. So Wayne questions why, and Bowden informs him that she was attacked, asking who has motive to hurt her. Wayne comments that he can't divulge personal information, but Bowden pleads to give him something that he can work with. He's trying to save his client's life. Wayne pulls him to the side and tells Bowden, he gets that he does what you guys normally do, and start with the person closest to her. As Bowden starts to walk away, Wayne informs him that just so he knows, his specialty is forensic accounting. Now, me personally, I didn't know what forensic accounting was, so when I looked it up, I found that forensic accounting is the application of accounting, auditing, and investigative skills to examine financial records for legal evidence, often using cases of fraud and financial misconduct. Bowden tells Markowitz to get Sarah's husband on the phone. We cut to Lustig in the basement, shutting off a vowel and telling the fire department that it is now closed off, so they can begin cutting through the wall. As Lustig leaves the basement, there's an electrical spark that catches his attention. So of course he goes over to check it out and he discovers that there's a bad wire and it looks like it could be shorting out the circuits. So he looks around and grabs a piece of wood to move the wire, but then there's one problem that I have with this. The wire is literally on top of a puddle, and yet he's trying to use a stick to move it. If there's one thing that we do know, we know that water plus electricity usually equals being electrocuted. But carry on. Lustig inches closer and closer to the water, so he actually attempts to step in the puddle, and we don't see him get electrocuted, but we know he just did because it shorts out the saw that the fire department is using to cut through the wall. We cut to the next scene and we see we see that some woman that that was uh denied entry to the building, she's outside trying to gain entry, still. Bowden asks Markowitz if he was able to contact the husband, but he wasn't able to. But while this is happening, the people in the lobby begin shouting, so Bowden and Markowitz rush over to discover that Lustig had, in fact, get gotten electrocuted, and he stumbles to the floor where he ultimately dies. We return to the elevator and we see everyone still has their hands on the wall, but Sarah takes hers down and Tony tells her to put her hands back on the wall, and she responds that it hurts. Tony now more stern repeats for her to put her hands back on the wall. And Sarah looks him dead in the face and says, Or what? Larson tells him to leave her alone. She's in pain. Tony asks if he's if he sees what she's doing, calling her a twist, adding that that's what they used to call people like her in the Marines. Suddenly, out of nowhere, suddenly out of the blue, they would start fighting with each other. So so Sarah questions if he's threatening her, and he tells her that he wants her to know that he knows. Larson tells him to shut up and keep his hands on the wall. Markowitz tells Bowden that Sarah's husband won't talk to them, and he's lawyered up, and at the same time, the woman from outside has managed to get in the building. Bowden responds, telling him that her lawyer told him that she's locating all of his money, and he bets that she's about to leave him, and he might and he might know it. And though that would definitely give him motive to kill her, Markowitz then asks, if he's trying to kill his wife, why are Jankowski and Vince McCormick dead? Behind Bowden, he hears this is Matt with Caraway security, and it triggers something in him, and he asks Markowitz if Sarah's husband does Sarah's husband own caraway security. And he tells him to meet him in the office and rushes out. We see the shirt that Larson is wearing is also the patch from the security in the front desk, as well as Ramirez and Lustig. They all work for Caraway security. As they arrive in the office, Bowden comments that it's the Kensington sniper all over again. Ramirez asks what was that? So Markowitz answers that a few years ago, a stranger shot four people and then his own wife, trying to make a personal killing look like a serial killing. Bowden explains the guard, Larson, works for Sarah's husband and he thinks that the two victims were just a decoy. The guard is gonna kill her. Bowden tells Markowitz he needs to get in the elevator now. Sarah pleads with Larson to not let Tony kill her, and so he is he assures her that he won't. And as he tells her to come near him so he can protect her, the lights shut off again. Bowden instructs everyone to hold up their phones and to use them as flashlights and to not let it get dark in there. Keep the lights on each other, keep shining it all around the elevator, but suddenly something snatches the phones out of their hands down to the ground. Meanwhile, in the dark, we hear another scuffle, more loud thumping and more loud banging. And when the lights return, Sarah is in one corner and Tony is in the other, and when they look down, they see Larson is dead. His neck was snapped. It was snapped bad. His face was facing his back, so he's dead dead. Sarah looks at Tony and comments that it's him, but Tony responds that they can't hear her. She doesn't have to pretend anymore. They both know who did it. This is a fucked up position to be in. Like, let's think about it for a second. It's just the two of them now. Sarah knows that she didn't do it, but she thinks he did it. He knows he didn't do it, but thinks she did. But in reality, neither one of them did it. They both rush to pick up a shard of glass, and Bowden tells them to put down the glass and put their hands back on the wall. Tony tells her that he should kill her right now before she tries anything. So she asks him, What would be your defense? She killed them all? So I had to kill her? He agrees it's something like that. So she tells him, If he takes her down, they're pinning all of it on him. And he knows it. A big tough guy like himself. Ramirez comments that this is what he, the devil, does. He wants them to doubt everything. Bowden calls out to Markowitz who tells them that they're getting close. So Bowden asks, according to his story, how would he save them? Ramirez tells him that there's no easy answer. He's never going to get those people to see themselves as who they really are. The narrator comes back to tell us, cause it's the lies that we tell ourselves that introduce us to him. Bowden talks to them through the intercom, telling them to look at what they're doing. Don't think just because he's a cop, he doesn't know what they're going through. Especially right now. He's been to hell. Six months ago, he checked into a hotel and nearly drank himself to death. The thing is, when you're self-destructing, it looked like it's the world's fault, like you're dealt a series of shit hands, but that's not real. He realized his only way out of hell was to take responsibility for what he had become. He adds that they are responsible for it. Take responsibility for what they're doing, convincing them to put down the glass. Sarah puts hers down first, and then Tony does the same, but we the audience see that she's got another piece of glass in her back pocket. While Bowden is watching them, an officer comes in and tells Bowden that they found a woman who thinks she knows someone in the elevator, so he tells the officer to send her in. Meanwhile, the lights start to flicker again. Bowden yells for them to get in the get they need to get in the elevator immediately. Tony reaches for his phone to shine around, Sarah reaches for the glass, his phone is knocked down again, and now it's pitch black. But this time there is no scuffle or no banging, just silence. And when the lights come back on, Sarah is on the ground, wheezing, having her neck had been cut open. And and as Tony looks on, his hands are covered in blood. The officer returns with the woman, and before Bowden can say hold her outside, she sees the monitor and whispers, Tony. Bowden asks if she knows him, and she answers that yes, that's her fiance. He had a job interview there today and he didn't want to bring his tools with him, but she was late picking them up. Bowden asks for his last name and she answers Jankowski. Tony Jankowski. Bowden picks up the sign in sheet and comments that Jankowski is Jankowski. He signed in. Then who is, and as soon as he looks at the monitor, one of the blessed best plot twists and reveals I've ever seen. The old lady stands up and she stands up behind him, but her eyes are all black now. And Tony doesn't know it, he hasn't realized it because he's trying to render first aid to Sarah. But then he turns and sees her. Ramirez and Bowden jump back in shock, horror, and confusion. Ramirez comments, it's her. Bowden urges them to get in there and grab her the moment you get in. Tony asks, Who is she? And the woman responds, Today, I'm an old woman, asking, Are you ready for your turn, Anthony? He begins having a flashback, and we see that Tony is reaching for a can of beer while he's driving and it's on the floor of the passenger side of his car. Once he grabs He immediately T-bones the car. Once his car comes to a stop, he gets out to check and he sees the other car in the ditch with a woman laying on the ground dying, but then he notices a hole in the windshield, and when he looks, he sees a child dead on the ground. Tony gets in his car and flees the scene. And in case you haven't put two and two together, Tony was the hit and run driver that killed Bowden's wife and son. That's the even bigger reveal in this film. As he repeatedly says he's sorry, the woman comments, the whores, the liars, the cheats, and the deserters, it's always the same thing. Asking if he knows who she is now, and he nods, Yes. He tells her to take him, and she responds that she and she intends to. Tony asks, No, take him instead. He deserves it, and she responds that he doesn't believe that. Tony comments that yeah, he does. He never should have left. It's his fault. She continues asking if he think that he can make some kind of bargain. So he r he responds to take him instead. And in a loud demonic voice, she yells for him to stop saying that. And in that moment, the elevator drops. Right when the fire department was getting through the wall, it just drops. And as it continues to fall, the brakes activate, bringing it to a sudden stop. And when it does, Dwight's radio falls inside of the car. The woman asks if he thinks that this will make him good. He's not good, and Tony agrees. So she asks if he thinks that he can make up for his choices that he's made. He nods no. She questions if he thinks he can be forgiven, and he nods no again. But then he reaches for the radio and confirms with confirms what I just told you. He admits that he killed a mother and her son on Bethlehem Pike five years ago, and it was a hit and run and he was never caught. And in this moment, Bowden realizes it's him. As Tony apologizes, Bowden looks down at the coupon that says what Tony just said, he's so sorry. After a brief moment of silence, the woman comments, Damn, I really wanted you. She stands up and fixes her hair, and then the building goes pitch black. Everything shuts off and the power goes out. When the power comes back on, she's gone. They get the doors open, and when Bowden notices that she's gone, it sends everybody into a panic to go find her. We cut to the next scene and we see the baddie bags being wheeled off from the elevator. And as Bowden is walking in the lobby, he makes eye contact with Tony, who's in handcuffs. So he tells the officer that he'll take him in. While driving, Bowden tells Tony that that was his family in Bethlehem Pike. That was his son, his wife. And he's been waiting for this moment for five years. All the things that he'd say to him and what he does. But the thing is, he forgives him. And this scene goes back to the beginning of the film when his sponsor tells him the quality of his life depends on the ability to forgive, and he just forgave him. I do have a question though. Why was he in cuffs? Is he being charged for the events of the deaths in the elevator? Or I mean they saw how it happened. I mean, good luck trying to explain it to a judge. But that not even just that. Is he being charged for the hidden run? Is that the bigger reason why he's in the handcuffs? Is there a statue of limitation on that? Or am I just thinking too much into it? I don't know. Anyway, the narrator, aka Ramirez, brings the movie to a close by saying, After his mother would finish her story, she would always comfort them. She'd say, Don't worry, if the devil is real, then God must be real too. The camera pans out over the water, and we see the city skyline, but this time it's not upside down, it's right side up. The scene fades to black, and the credits roll the end. Another quick side note before I wrap this up on the cover to Devil. Obviously, you see you know the double doors, the light that's I guess shining through the doors on the cover, it's an upside down cross. I don't know if too many people know that, but as soon as I saw the cover, I recognize that. But just wanted to throw that out there real quick. Anyway, alright, ladies and gentlemen, that is it. That's devil. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review andor five stars on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Podbean.com. Your feedback helps us reach more horror fans like you. And in the meantime, you can check in with us on TikTok and Instagram at Chills and Thrills Podcasts, on Twitter slash X at Chills and Thrill, or via email, chills and thrills podcast at gmail.com. In closing, as Ghostface always asks, what's your favorite scary movie? Because next week we'll be reviewing your next nightmare. Until then, see you next week later, folks.