And now, the
thrilling conclusion of Dean Koontz's Mr Murder!
Part two begins with a replay of the ending of part one,
with Marty chasing after Alfie's car on foot, and both of his
daughters in the back seat screaming. Alfie finally gets the bright idea to
actually speed up and Marty loses them.
Just then,
Paige drives up behind Marty and stops the car. Marty jumps in on the driver's
side, then makes Paige climb over the
gearshift and get into the passenger seat before they can resume
pursuit of Alfie. Not exactly the tack I would have taken while in a
chase, but that's what he does. He goes after Alfie's car while
Paige screams at him the whole time that he's "sick" and he needs
help.
After a
thrilling low-speed car chase, Marty finds Alfie's car parked on the side
of the road. Running over to investigate, he finds it empty. He then utilizes
his Spidey Sense to ascertain that Alfie and the girls have run into the
backyard of a nearby house, and immediately follows after them.
We cut to Alfie
and the two girls, walking through an outdoor maze [?]. Alfie assures them
he's not going to hurt them as he waves a gun around about six inches in front
of their faces. He tells them to stay put while he goes back for
Mommy. Instead, Alfie spies Marty nearby, and goes chasing after
him.
As soon as he's
out of view, however, the daughters decide it's a good time to beat it. Alfie
calls off his pursuit of Marty when he notices they're missing, and goes chasing
after them instead. As he calls out their names, we see them hidden under a
walkway trying to remain quiet. The older kid even has to stifle the
younger kid's sneeze, making the younger one look like something of a liability
at this point.
 Eat your heart out, The
Shining.
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Alfie runs into
Paige, who thinks he's Marty. Strangely, she doesn't wonder where he got the
raincoat from, or why he's decided to comb his hair differently in the last two
minutes. Alfie tells her to call the kids' names (creepily referring to
them as "my girls") so that they'll come out. Paige, however, still believes
them to be at Vic and Kathy's, yet calls out their names anyway. Why not humor
him, right? The girls hear her and come out of hiding.
Paige runs to
them, and then Alfie, for no apparent reason, spins around
and takes off in the opposite direction. Paige wants to know why the girls
aren't at Vic and Kathy's, and they reply that some man came and took them.
Showing himself to have impeccable timing, Marty appears at that exact moment.
The girls ask about the man who looks exactly like him, but before he can
answer, Alfie appears with his gun pointed at Marty, and we see
the shock register on Paige's face.
Marty tells
Paige to take the girls and vamoose, but as she leaves, she throws a big potted
plant in Alfie's face. Alfie, still the professional hit man, starts
firing wildly when confronted with this deadly ceramic assault. In super
slow-mo, Marty tackles the stunned Alfie and the two wrestle around in the dirt.
Alfie slugs Marty a good one and runs off.
 Several potted
plants were harmed in the making of this movie.
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Marty chases
after him, but before he gets far, a big bearded guy with a rifle appears on the
porch. He immediately recognizes Marty and lowers the rifle. Marty tells Bearded
Guy to call the police and ask for our Token Skeptical Plainclothes
Detective (whose name, by the way, is Lowbeck).
Meanwhile,
Paige loads the kids into the SUV and pulls off. Alfie comes sprinting out, and
in case the raincoat and bowl cut hairdo don't give it away, one of the girls
screams, "That's not Daddy! That's the other one!" Alfie catches up with the car
and reaches through the window to grab the steering wheel. He doesn't appear to
be running at this point, making it seem a lot like he's on one of those
hoverboards from Back to the Future Part
II.
Paige, unable
to shake him off, decides the best course of action is to drive the SUV up onto
to the curb and crash it through a glass bus stop shelter [!]. Despite
appearances, this is a fantastic decision, considering it's been a
whole two minutes into this installment and we haven't had a shot of
something flying through glass yet. This finally dislodges Alfie, who tumbles
off into a row of garbage cans.
 Now that's some
good old-fashioned American craftmanship
right there.
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Meanwhile, the
SUV is not only still running, but doesn't appear to have the slightest scratch
on it. One of the girls spots Marty running up behind them, so Paige then
decides to take the SUV in reverse back through
the smashed shelter [!] to pick up Marty. You'd think there are a
couple of other routes she could have taken that would have been easier on
the car's axles. Alfie, still conscious, watches all of this, and
silently skulks away.
So, Marty
again forces Paige over into the passenger seat so that he can drive, which,
given the maneuvers we just saw, is probably a good idea. The kids
again ask Marty where Fake Daddy came from, but Marty says he
doesn't know.
We cut to Lt.
Lowbeck getting a statement from Beaded Guy. Lowbeck notices a bullet in a
wooden post and asks Bearded Guy where Marty's daughters were
when the shots were fired. From the guy's answer, Lowbeck somehow jumps to the
conclusion that these shots were actually fired at the kids. Hey, who needs
a forensics team, right? Lowbeck's female partner asks Bearded Guy if it was
Marty who fired the shots, or "the other man". Lowbeck shoots her a dirty look,
obviously because she's deviating from the Skeptical Plainclothes
Detective Handbook and actually (gasp) looking for evidence to
support Marty's story.
Bearded Guy's
cute son Joey walks out on the patio. With his
cute lisp, he tells them he
knows who fired the shots. "It was the Xerox Mr. Stillwater!" he
says, putting his fingers together in the shape of a gun. "Bang!
Bang!" Boy, is this kid cute.
This piques
Lowbeck's interest, until the dad points out that the kid's also claimed to have
seen a giant hamster named Broderick. Tough break for Marty, huh? Still, this
kid sure is cute. Just then,
Lowbeck's partner hands him a cell phone, saying he's got a call from the
station. However, we see the person on the other end is Marty on a
payphone. How exactly did this call originate "from the station" again?
Marty tells
Lowbeck that Bearded Guy can now back up his story, but Lowbeck says he's
talking to him right now and the guy didn't see anything. Lowbeck then
tells Marty to turn himself in, because the only fingerprints they found at
Marty's house belonged to Marty, and points out that not even twins have
identical fingerprints. (Well, a human clone wouldn't have identical
fingerprints, either, but who's keeping track?) He says he's going to put
out a warrant for Marty's arrest.
 Did I mention how cute
this kid is?
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Marty hangs up and tells Paige that he's going to
turn himself in. But first, he's going to take Paige and the girls to stay with
his mom and dad, where supposedly they'll be safe.
We cut to
Marty's parent's house. Their machine picks up, and Marty leaves the following
message: "Where are
you guys? Call me, okay?" Keep in mind he's at a payphone when he leaves this message. Paige theorizes
they may have gone up to "the cabin" and asks if there's a phone up there, but
obviously she's unfamiliar with the chief use of "cabins in the woods" as
plot devices. "It'll be a cold day in hell when my dad puts a phone in that
cabin!" Marty expositories.
We cut to an
abandoned airport in (as the caption informs us) "Agua Dulce, Arizona". A limo
pulls up to a private plane as three Important People debark. These are the
same people who were there for Alfie's birth, if you can remember back that far.
Drew and his all-purpose lackey Carl step out of the limo and greet them. One of
them hands Drew
the issue of
Celebs with the article about Marty. He says they've
checked the hospital records, and found that Marty gave a blood sample at the
same hospital on the same day as the swimmer. "A $200 million top secret
contract!" he yells. "A joint venture of the world's leading genetic research
institution and the United States Department of Defense! And you took the wrong
test tube?" Because we all know how rare screw-ups are over at the
Defense Department.
Another
Important Guy fills in Drew (and the audience) on the whole story. He's learned
that Marty was just attacked by a man claiming to be "a lost identical twin" and
makes a point of mentioning the attacker drove an Infiniti (Though this is nowhere near as obnoxious as
the close-ups we get of the logo on Marty's GMC
Yukon ). He then tells Drew to find Alfie. They have one lead to
go on: Marty's parents live in Mammoth Lakes, with a house in town and a cabin
in the woods. He hands Drew a map and tells him to head there now. One of the
other Important Guys also has an idea: Since the cops think Marty's gone
crazy, if he does "something colossally insane" out of one of his novels, this
will just confirm their suspicions. (After all, horror writers are such
poor, poor misunderstood souls.) Important Guy then hands Carl a
book.
Here we get a
sample of Marty's bestselling prose as Carl reads the first paragraph aloud.
"Gavin locked all the doors. Man kills wife, children, then gets dragged off to
jail. That, Gavin Charles Lumbacher was not prepared for. But, man kills wife,
children, and then self, that was a headline he would be happy for the city to
wake up to." Drew, speaking for no one, says, "Sounds brilliant to me." He
then assures the Important People that Alfie will be found and dealt with,
and they all take their leave.