At his hearing, Shelton opposes a motion to deny himself bail, citing obscure legal precedents.
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By all appearances co-operative, Shelton offers a full confession in exchange for a deluxe mattress in his cell Rice reluctantly agrees. In an interrogation cell at the jail, Rice covertly congratulates him for removing Darby from society, then asks for a confession. The next day, a local SWAT unit bursts into Shelton's house to find him waiting for them, and he doesn't resist arrest. After restraining him and making preparations to ensure his prolonged awareness, Shelton slowly tortures and dismembers Darby, saying the words Darby told him 10 years before: "You can't fight fate." It is later revealed that Darby was found in 25 pieces, and after an investigation, Rice and his team suspect Shelton. Darby tries to shoot him with the pistol, only to be discover it is a trick gun, injecting him with tetrodotoxin, paralyzing him, but leaving him fully conscious. At the meeting place, Darby realizes that the caller and his savior is none other then Shelton. The caller tells him if he wants to escape the police, he will come to where he is. Initial evidence leads to Darby, who is alerted to approaching police by a mysterious caller who tells him where a pistol he can use to his advantage is.
Due to an alteration in the chemicals, he dies in agonizing pain. Rice, interested in maintaining his 96% conviction rate, makes a secret deal with Darby: in return for pleading guilty to third-degree murder, he will provide testimony that will send Ames to death row for what is, essentially, a robbery charge. He is told by career-minded prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) that the case was compromised by a bungled forensic investigation and Shelton's testimony cannot incriminate either man because he blacked out during the incident. Darby (Christian Stolte) and accomplice Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart), leaving Shelton emotionally scarred.
However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence.
With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing aĭeadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.Ĭlyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor
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Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix theįlawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Nick offers one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against hisįast forward ten years. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice ( Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Clyde Shelton ( Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion.