This article contains discussions of alcohol use disorder and child abuse. It also contains spoilers for The Silencing.

The 2020 action-thriller movie The Silencing incorporates a traditional storyline, but its ending packs a few punches. The Silencing follows Rayburn Swanson, a reformed hunter with an alcohol-use disorder, whose daughter Gwen went missing five years earlier. When a body washes up on a lake shore, Rayburn meets up with Sheriff Alice Gustafson to identify the body. After determining the body isn’t Gwen’s, the sheriff makes it her mission to identify the victim and killer. The only clue to the killer’s identity is a spearhead with the initials “M.B.” carved in it.

Back in Rayburn’s animal sanctuary, the former hunter sees a man in a ghillie suit chasing a woman named Molly through the woods. Rayburn saves Molly from the killer, giving her shelter in an unused spike trap.