BONES IN THE BRIEFCASE - SYNOPSIS

BONES IN THE BRIEFCASE

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE: Bones in the Brief Case is a movie about a serial killer who murders Nigel’s daughter; a chemistry professor on the prowl for the killer in London.

SYNOPSIS: Nigel carries a cryptic brief case filled with his daughter’s bones the killer mailed him from London. He flies there to find answers after he’s experienced psychic premonition dreams regarding his daughter’s murder.  Nigel travels and stays in his friend Margeau’s old dingy London flat and meets Alexander who is the head of a revolutionary medical equipment company that Nigel’s daughter approached to work on a patent with for new scanning design. Alexander gives Nigel Rowans designs and clues to the murder begin to surface with his visit bringing other twists and turns.

A group of young college grads vacation at the lake resort where the murders all took place. Four men and four women vacation together and hear of the murder causing suspenseful action to ensue created from their own wonderings about the case. Charlotte an architectural grad has dreams of designing sky scrapers and is eyed by Garth he murderer as an interesting subject. Meanwhile we learn of Garth’s tormented past as abused by his mother; the owner of a convenience store in the area close to the Lake side retreat.

Nigel dreams of the farm house that Garth lives in near a wooded area in visions that include his deceased daughter in her blood stained night gown. He is haunted by these dreams and teams up with Hansen and Jansberg two detectives who work on the case of the missing college graduate women. Another dream leads Nigel and the police to Garth’s location which he escapes after his mother dies of a heart attack and he sells the store however murdering the new clerk who questions him about the murders. They find nothing at the farm house as he’s packed and moved except eight white boxes that contained the deceased women’s note books and other items to do with their degrees accomplishment. These items Garth displays at the convenience store freezer section as ‘for sale’ cracking after his mother’s death and abandoning his business and house quickly after.

Charlotte is saved after a possible threat to her life ensues; she goes to stay with Nigel for the remainder of her vacation. After he returns her safely home Nigel is called to travel towards Manchester after the killer flees an old hotel in London and the cops get closer to finding him. A wild goose chase ensues as Garth escapes the police three times, shooing one in the men’s room at Northampton station and fleeing to Manchester. Garth skips the train just prior to Manchester into farm lands and hides in an empty farm house. Garth has a final dream of the area and catches up with him with the police in a dramatic scene taking down the killer and fulfilling the prophetic dreams with the ghost of his daughter helping.

All is calm and the killer has been caught and Nigel takes a break then goes to see Alexander to rekindle work his daughter began on the medical scanner patent. He makes a deal with the corporation and has a celebratory dinner with Charlotte who landed a new partnership with an architecture firm.

Nigel returns to the USA to finally bury the remains of Rowan and rekindles his old romance with Margeau a reclusive woman who is reminded to live life to the fullest and cherish each day.