The Bone Collector
The Bone Collector is a 1999 psychological thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, directed by Phillip Noyce and produced by Martin Bregman.
The film begins in late 1999. Tetraplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme Denzel Washington and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy Angelina Jolie, team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims. Rhyme was paralyzed from the neck down in an earlier accident and is bedbound and completely reliant on machines and his nurse Thelma Queen Latifah to function. He communicates with Amelia via headset as she examines the various crime scenes and collects evidence and reports back to him.The killer poses as a New York taxi driver, and abducts and kills those who get in his taxi. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who take a taxi home but then find themselves kidnapped by the killer. Amelia finds Alans body buried in a Civil Warera railroad bed. She also finds a collection of clues including a pile of pieceground oyster shells, which eventually leads Amelia now working with Rhyme to Alans wife, and a scrap of paper. The detectives find Mrs. Rubin, too late, at a steam junction in a belowground services area of a building in the financial district, secured using old antique handcuffs or shackles at the mouth of a pipe which emits steam. She has been scalded to death from the steam. The killer has also removed a bit of flesh and bone from her arm. Amelia finds another scrap of paper at the scene. ........
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