![]() ![]() In the morning, Masterson goes to the police station and seizes a number of weapons, sparking a shootout between himself and the station's police officers as he attempts to track down "Gallagher". Beck dismisses the story as insane and leaves "Gallagher" incarcerated in a jail cell at the police station.īack at Masterson's house, the alien leaves the dog's body and enters Masterson. When Beck confronts "Gallagher" with this information, "Gallagher" tells him that he ("Gallagher") is an extraterrestrial lawman and that they are in fact pursuing an alien thrill killer who has the ability to take over human bodies. Beck soon learns that "Gallagher" is an imposter, impersonating the real agent Gallagher, who is dead. As Masterson arrives from his house to take charge of the scene, the alien transfers itself from Brenda's dying body to Masterson's dog.įrustrated by Gallagher's continuing refusal to explain the strange phenomenon of ordinary citizens turning into crazed killers, Beck arrests him and puts him in a jail cell. As Brenda dies, Gallagher points a strangely-shaped, alien weapon at her however, she leaps from the roof. Gallagher and Beck pursue her to a rooftop, where they mortally wound her in a gun battle. They proceed to have vehicular sex in a parking lot which results in his death. Brenda is then propositioned by a cat-caller, she accepts and follows him to his car. Gallagher asks police to track Brenda when he sees her picture next to Miller's body. He then visits a strip club, where the alien leaves Miller's body and takes over the body of a stripper named Brenda ( Claudia Christian). He then goes to a car dealership, where he kills three men and steals a red Ferrari. Miller goes to a record store where he beats the store's owner to death. Gallagher tells Beck to put out an alert on Miller, but Beck refuses, because Miller has no criminal record. Gallagher arrives to find DeVries dead on the floor and Miller's bed abandoned. After DeVries forces Miller's mouth open, a slug-like alien emerges from DeVries' mouth and transfers itself into Miller's body. ![]() Disconnecting his life-support equipment, he approaches the comatose man in the next bed, Jonathan P. Meanwhile, at the hospital, DeVries suddenly awakens. When told of DeVries's condition, Gallagher rushes off to the hospital. John Masterson ( Clarence Felder), meet FBI Special Agent Lloyd Gallagher ( Kyle MacLachlan), who informs them that Beck has been assigned to work with Gallagher to track down DeVries. Upon his return to LAPD headquarters, Beck and his supervisor, Lt. Cliff Willis ( Ed O'Ross) that DeVries is not expected to survive the night. DeVries is taken to a hospital, where a doctor informs Beck and his partner, Det. DeVries is shot several times, smashes through the blockade and crashes the Ferrari he is driving. The chase ends when DeVries encounters a police blockade overseen by Detective Thomas Beck ( Michael Nouri). But he refuses.Jack DeVries ( Chris Mulkey), a quiet citizen with no criminal past, robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, kills all of the security guards inside, and leads the Los Angeles Police Department on a high-speed chase. He is begged by his fellow townspeople, his priest, his wife, his mother-even by Nazi generals-to simply sign the paper and go home. He is resolute despite many opportunities to simply sign a pledge of allegiance to Hitler and walk free. Their simple life was set against one of the most magnificent backdrops in the world-a landscape all the more gut-wrenching in its beauty when contrasted with the hellish Nazi prisons that Jägerstätter gives it up for. Jägerstätter lived in the Austrian Alps in a small farming village called Radegund, with his wife and three young daughters. ![]() “If only more people would have the courage to stick to their beliefs and what’s right-not only right for them but right for society. “It’s such a perfect story for our days,” says production designer Sebastian Krawinkel. Terrence Malick’s latest film tells the story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight in World War II for the Nazi regime, and paid the highest price for his conscientious objection. A Hidden Life is a quiet story of resistance for a very loud time.
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