With six bodies that appear to be victims of the same killer, and no evidence, weapons or witnesses, the FBI is angling to take over the investigation, putting pressure on Jimmy to deliver fast results. Hollywood Flashback: When John David Washington, 13, Saw Dad Denzel Immortalized at the Chinese Theatre Despite warnings from his captain ( Terry Kinney) not to get mixed up with Deke, Jimmy starts consulting the grizzled older cop, who sticks around, taking vacation time to continue digging. When a murder victim turns up, he brings Deke along to the crime scene, where echoes of the unsolved case that caused his departure from L.A. Jimmy is nonetheless intrigued to know why the officer with the department’s best clearance rate worked 15 years without a promotion. But neither he nor the new college-boy homicide sergeant Jimmy Baxter (Malek) warm to each other at first. County, whose loyalty is intertwined with his darkest secrets. Since then, he has become a solitary man, living alone and dealing mostly with minor misdemeanors on the job.ĭeke still has a friend or two in L.A. Five years earlier, he left following a meltdown that involved suspension from duty, divorce and triple bypass heart surgery within six months. Washington plays Kern County sheriff’s deputy Joe Deacon, known as “Deke,” whose reluctance to drive down Interstate 5 to Los Angeles to retrieve evidence hints at the bad blood of his time in city law enforcement. Right from the outset, Thomas Newman’s ominous score full of needling electronic elements and John Schwartzman’s shadowy widescreen cinematography help create an unsettling mood, steeped in dread. A prologue shows a female driver cruising along an empty freeway at night, bopping to the B-52s, when another car starts stalking and blocking her, the unseen driver pursuing her on foot at a closed gas station.

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