Edge of darkness what was wrong with his daughter

In the process he collides with a secret government operative, Darius Jedburgh, whose job is to clean up and hide any remaining evidence. Craven's singleness of purpose in finding answers about Emma's death becomes a transforming experience that changes his life. Widowed Boston Police Detective Thomas Craven thought he knew his only offspring, twenty-four year old Emma Craven, the two who had a seemingly loving, communicative father-daughter relationship. He begins to possibly doubt that belief when in Boston on vacation from her current base of nearby Northampton, Emma, displaying signs of a serious medical condition, tells her father that she should have told him "this" a long time ago implying it having to do with the reason for her vomiting, but she is never able to as she is soon after gunned down in cold blood outside the family home as they are on the way to the hospital emergency by an unknown perpetrator who is able to escape.

With Tom's colleagues believing he was the intended target, Tom is officially on the case solely to provide his insight as to who might want to kill him. But without telling his colleagues, he instead follows leads pertaining specifically to Emma. One piece of the puzzle is the mysterious Englishman who shows up in Tom's backyard one evening, seemingly with a certain agenda before getting there, he deciding not to follow through with that agenda by the time he leaves.

As Tom gets closer to figuring out the entire conspiracy, often working outside of the law, he knows that his life is in danger, but he hopes he can avenge Emma's death regardless of what happens to him. He kills the Northmoor agents, first ordering one at gunpoint to scream the name "Craven", identifying him as Emma's killer. Craven is then shot by Bennett, but Craven also wounds Bennett with a shot, then manages to force some of the radioactive milk down Bennett's throat.

A gagging Bennett frantically runs to his kitchen cabinet to get pills to counteract the radioactivity, but Craven drags himself to the kitchen and fatally shoots Bennett. Craven is hospitalized for the gunshot wounds and radiation poisoning.

Jedburgh, suffering from an unrelated terminal illness, meets with the Senator and two political advisers who had hired him to handle Craven. They want to spin the Northmoor incident in a positive light. Jedburgh suggests an assassination attempt on the Senator could be an angle to drive Bennett's death out of the headlines.

They are pleased with this idea until Jedburgh abruptly pulls out a gun and shoots both advisers and the senator dead. A young Massachusetts State Police officer nervously enters the Senator's home.

Jedburgh points his gun at the officer, but asks if he has a family and kids. When the officer says yes, Jedburgh lowers his gun to face an honorable death. He is immediately shot dead by the officer. As Craven dies, Emma, in spirit form, comforts him. The father and daughter are shown leaving the hospital together, walking down the corridor and toward a bright, white light.

In , Martin Campbell announced that he was planning to adapt Edge of Darkness for the cinema. Additional scenes were shot in Malden, Massachusetts in the old Malden hospital.

Ray Winstone as Jedburgh. Bojana Novakovic as Emma. Jay O. Sanders as Whitehouse. Mel Gibson as Thomas Craven. Reviews An only fairly good thriller, but a first-rate Evil Corporation.

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DVDs can be longer or shorter under different countries' TV systems. Please try one of these times:. Revealing mistake : In the scene in the beginning of the movie when Mel Gibson 's daughter gets shot and he's cradling her dead body, when they zoom out her hand is moving. Her fingers move quite a bit when Mel pulls her into his arms.

Thomas Craven : Everything's illegal in Massachusetts. Question : How and when did Thomas Craven get poisoned?