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Synopsis

Assigned to the case of a recent string of “artistic” murders, Detective Edgar of the Chapelford Police Department follows the tracks of a killer haunted by violent dreams which they re-enact – with brutal consequences.

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Beginning – A man is seen drawing something – we are unsure of what, but we see him seal a plastic bag containing the piece of artwork he draws. A body is discovered in a nearby lake – water-logged and mutilated. Found by a neighbour of the currently unidentified victim, the Chapelford Police Department are assigned the case and Detective Edgar is given the task of leading the investigation. Upon performing the autopsy, the pathologist discovers a sealed plastic bag containing artwork bearing a striking similarity to the actual murder (however, the victim is portrayed as a monster appearing with markings not dissimilar to the injuries that caused the victim’s demise.) Studying the art, Detective Edgar finds that the style of drawing is similar to a local artist – making him the primary suspect.

Middle – Upon interrogating the artist, Detective Edgar discovers that his alibi for the period when the victim is believed to have died is solid – for he was in the company of his partner. With no possible leads, there is little he can do to solve the murder, for the flesh of the victim is so badly decomposed that any prints have long since vanished, and no distinct shapes from the cuts can discern the type of blade used.
A second and third murder is found simultaneously, and Detective Edgar is given the artwork found nailed to the tree nearby. The picture portrays a monster of gross proportions, with limbs jutting out from a disfigured body. The report explains that the bodies had been dismembered and the sewn together in the same proportions of the monster, then nailed to a nearby tree (where the art was also found). This time, prints are found littered over the limbs of the victims, though the heads are strangely missing. DNA tests reveal them to be the bodies of two local psychiatrists. A fourth victim is found, this victim was found not long after the murder occurred. The body was found outside an orphanage and was easily recognisable as the nun that ran the orphanage, her body was found with a large gaping hole where the heart is situated and the heart itself had been torn out and ripped in two, also, in the hole is a portrait of a monster with a hole in its chest and it’s heart visibly torn in two. The fifth victim that is found is a middle aged woman and is well known for being a prostitute, both her hands have been cut off and she has been shoved in a small box, left to suffocate, also, in the box is a drawing of a monster that has cradles for hands as well as a photograph of a young worn out boy. Immediately Detective Edgar recognises the boy but doesn’t know where from.

End – racking his brain to try to remember who this boy is he stays up most the night. As night heads towards the early morning Edgar suddenly realises that the boy in the picture is a boy in which he once saved by rescuing him from his abusive foster parents and arresting them. The last thing he heard of the boy was that he was in a mental institute; he sets out towards the Chapelford mental institute only to find that when he gets there the institute is now closed and has been for some years. Seeing a light in the top windows of the building he enters, expecting to find squatters. Instead, on the top floor, he finds a maze of corridors covered in dark sketches. He reaches the bottom corridor to find a room that has large shackles bolted to the floor. Suddenly a large figure appears behind him and knocks him out. Detective Edgar wakes to find himself in the shackles in a fogged up room, in which he soon realises is actually filled with poisonous gas, Detective Edgar begins to scream for help, just as a back up team in which Edgar called for earlier in the day turn up., the back up team find the room in which Detective Edgar is in just in time to save him, on the door a picture has been nailed; a large figure is shrouded by mist, wearing manacles. The team then find the killer dead in a nearby room.