The Pledge Page #2

Synopsis: The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself the wizard: clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blond daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Sean Penn
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
2001
124 min
$18,894,185
Website
761 Views


...made by the hands of our daughter?

Yes.

Yes, on my soul's salvation.

You've sworn by your salvation.

We will pray.

Detective!

Detective Black?

Looks like they got him.

Highway Patrol picked up a match

on the truck with an Indian driver.

I gave you a new headband, Toby.

I know you lost yours.

Toby, I can't see your eyes, buddy.

You'll like this.

Let's see it.

Toby, you've already served time

for one charge of juvenile rape now.

Statutory.

The girl was 16 years old.

Toby, would you tell him

that rape is rape?

You got three years of juvenile,

you got some burglary...

...you got some theft, grand theft.

Multiple counts of marijuana

possession. Then that first rape.

Section Four.

Man's got a mental handicap, Stan.

No.

Well, number one, that might not

take the violence out of you.

Number two,

I'm gonna get a confession.

And number three,

I'm gonna do it in record time.

How you doing, chief?

Scared of this thing?

Let's get it out of the way then.

Who you talking to, chief?

You got those little voices

in your head?

- You a policeman?

- Yeah, I'm a policeman.

- I want to be a policeman too.

- You do, huh?

Policeman drive me here very fast.

Drive me fast.

- I'm just a trapper.

- We don't need this.

I trap beaver today.

Fifteen pounds or 25...

...or 35, something like that.

Maybe 80.

You mean beaver or you mean "beaver"?

- Beaver.

- Beaver? Pretty, young p*ssy?

- I don't know you joking me.

- You think I'm joking?

- I don't know.

- No?

I'm not joking you.

So you catch beaver, huh?

Yeah, I-

- Yeah, I catch beaver.

- You catch beaver? Little girl?

You catch little girl today, huh?

You rape little girl?

Is that what you did?

I rape, I rape.

You raped her, huh?

Yeah.

He could be talking about the

other rape, the one on his record.

We got positive I.D. from the kid.

This is a small town.

Just let him do his job.

Tell me about the girl.

You rape a little girl today?

It's okay.

You can tell me.

You killed her.

Didn't you, Toby?

It's all right.

It's okay, bud. Huh?

Something simply came

over you today, didn't it?

All at once you became like an animal?

You attacked and you raped her.

You raped that little girl.

Then, Toby, you know,

without wanting to-

But sometimes you can't

stop yourself, you know?

And you murdered her, didn't you?

That hurts right there, doesn't it?

Yeah?

You like that, huh?

You like that? Huh?

Maybe you just wanted her to be quiet.

You just wanted her

to stop screaming at you.

Something was stronger than you, Toby.

Then, when you came to yourself...

...you were horrified.

Then you saw that little girl...

...and you ran.

- I ran. I ran, I ran.

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