The Pledge Page #3

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
764 Views


- Yeah, you ran.

- Yeah. I ran.

- It's all right.

It's all right, Toby.

- I ran.

- You ran.

- Yeah.

- It's all right.

You want to cry?

Come here. Come here.

It's all right. Come on.

You've gotta stand up

for what you did, okay?

You gotta stand up.

- He don't know what Stan's saying.

- Stand up and confess. okay?

It's all right.

I killed her.

You killed her?

- I killed her.

- You killed her?

Yeah.

- Say it.

- I killed a little girl.

- Say it.

- I killed a little girl.

You killed that little girl?

- You killed that little girl?

- Yeah, yeah.

Say it. Just put your hand

up to heaven and say it.

What did you say? Say it!

Say it, Toby!

Yeah, you killed her,

didn't you, Toby?

- Yeah, it's okay.

- I kill, I-

Toby, Toby, it's okay.

I got you. I got you.

I got you.

He practically blew him.

Coroner just called.

They found chocolate

in the girl's stomach.

We got wrappers in the cab

of the Indian's truck.

Deputy!

There you go.

- Come on, Toby.

- Goddamn it!

Come on, walk like a policeman, Toby.

You're a policeman now.

Okay to use this phone?

- Yeah, go ahead.

- Christ!

- You fish the lakes up here, I'm told?

- Yeah.

Anglers haven't been doing much.

The spear houses have hit pretty heavy.

It could be the snow cover.

Could be that.

What about the-?

He's got my gun! He's got my gun!

- Tell me when, Jerry.

- Drop it!

- He's got Hamilton!

- Let go!

- Freeze!

- Put it down, Toby!

No!

Don't shoot me! Please don't!

Don't shoot me!

- Toby, put it down!

- I kill the girl!

Goddamn it. No!

- Oh, God.

- Is everyone okay?

- Get a roll call!

- Fitz!

I'm on it.

- Fitz!

- Hamilton! Michael!

Are you hit?

- I don't think so.

- Oh, Jesus.

All right. Oh, Mike, you all right?

Oh, my God.

- Jesus Christ.

- You all right?

- Get an ambulance. Do it.

- Right.

- I thought he was gonna kill me.

- You're all right! You're okay.

What's that, the bullet?

His tooth.

Gate 42. They'll be boarding

in about half an hour.

- Is that Concourse E?

- Yes, it is, sir.

- Thank you very much.

- You're welcome.

Next in line, please.

Hi, how are you folks today?

Thank you.

Going to Cabo San Lucas today.

Wadenah had been previously convicted

of similar crimes and was on parole.

Regarding the suicide of

the suspect while in custody...

...State's Attorney Paul Ross

has organized a committee...

...to look into the tactics

of the Becker County Sheriff's office.

You okay?

Yes, thank you.

Sheriff's investigators

worked in concert...

...with Reno homicide detectives

for several hours...

...piecing together the trail that led

to the brisk apprehension of Wadenah.

Authorities here,

while understandably disturbed...

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