Genius Killer Movie

The opening scene features a man named  Milo Stanfield, who is suffering from  autism spectrum disorder or ASD. He is  seen standing on a street of New Jersey,  keeping an eye on a woman in the nearby  flower shop. In the midst of this, he also  seems to be doing some complex calculations related to the timing of events happening in  his surroundings. Milo notes the approach of  a passenger bus, a pothole, a street artist,  and a bicycle rider speeding.

Following  these observations, he crosses the street  and strategically places a pen on the top of a  mailbox adjacent to the pothole. Soon after, his  planned chain reaction takes place: a taxi runs  over the pothole, splashing the water on the pen,  causing it to fall on the ground. This captures  the attention of the street artist, who then walks  forward to pick up the pen. At the same moment,  the speeding cyclist collides with the artist,  which results in him to strike the mailbox and  fall on the fruit stand nearby. A chaos ensues in  the street, diverting the attention of everyone  including the bus driver. As a result, he does  not notice the traffic light turning red and hits  the same woman crossing the road, killing her on  the spot. Milo then walks away from the scene  after confirming that his plan went smoothly.The scene then cuts to an FBI Special Agent:  Olivia Dunham.

She works for the fringe division  of Homeland Security, specializing in paranormal  phenomena. Olivia seems to be returning back to  work after a long gap due to her head injury.  As soon as she enters the Fringe headquarters,  she is greeted by one of her fellow officers,  Charlie, who is the supervisor of the team.In the meantime, the chief of the agency:  Walternate Bishop is talking to one of the  lab assistants, Phillip Broyles regarding  Olivia’s return. Phillip says that she is  a doppelganger named Fauxlivia and expresses  concern if they can integrate an imposter in  their team. Here, it is revealed that Olivia,  who is inside the office, is not the real one;  she is in fact an imposter who has been brought to  fulfill the place of the original one. Walternate  then reveals his motivation behind keeping  Fauxlivia in this universe and implanting  the real Olivia’s memories into her. He claims  that Fauxlivia is the only one who can travel  between universes without any harm. Walternate  wants to figure out how she can do so. For this,  he says that they must make her believe she  belongs here.

Phillip asks what if her new  identity does not hold, to which the chief replies  that she will no longer be necessary after that.Afterwards, Charlie briefs the team on the  seemingly random bus accident which he claims  to have happened two times in this week;  the victim has died in each case. He then  asks his crew to be careful before going for  the site investigation. A short while later,  the FBI team arrives at the accident site  and splits up to search for any leads or  clues. The investigation is led by another FBI  agent named Lincoln Lee, whose face appears to  be ruined by burn marks. Charlie inspects the  body and uses her fingerprint to retrieve her  further details. She eventually finds out that  the deceased woman’s name is Julian Foster.Meanwhile, Olivia questions the bus driver, who  is shaken by the incident as he has never even hit  any birds and animals until now. Simultaneously,  Agent Lee tests for any signs of environmental  factors but finds nothing. However, he does  find the same ball-point pen at the scene.  After inquiring with the eye-witnesses, Olivia  approaches Agent Lee and tells him that the local  artist had bent down to pick up the pen, during  which he collided with the bicycle rider and  fell into the fruit stand. Upon hearing this,  Agent Lee speculates that the pen is the main  element that created a sequence of reactions,  ultimately leading to the victim’s death.The next day at Fringe headquarters, Agent Lee  and Charlie are trying to find out a connection  between the bus accidents that happened in two  days.

Agent Lee spots the same ball-point pen in  the photo of the first accident, which makes him  even more convinced that someone has orchestrated  the chain of events. Following this, they go  to talk to a mathematician of Fringe agency,  Astrid, and tell her about the events.  However, she claims that no human can  carry out such a chain of events and mold it in  his or her favor twice. Amidst their argument,  another similar bus accident takes  place, leaving Astrid in shock.The FBI agents immediately rush to the site  and find that the victims are still alive this  time. Upon questioning the bystanders, they learn  that a dog suddenly crossed the road, causing the  bus to lose control. Just then, Olivia notices a  similar ball-point pen rolling down in the ground,  which makes her realize that the chain of events  is not over yet. She looks around and spots  a suspicious Milo looking down from an overhead  bridge. Moments later, a man wearing earbuds walks  forward to cross the street, only to be hit by an  oncoming ambulance. Confirmed about her suspicion,  Olivia alerts her team and races towards  Milo. Seeing this, the latter instantly  calculates another series of events and throws  a bicycle off the bridge. This prompts a bus  to change its path and drive right under the  overhead bridge.

Olivia holds him at gunpoint,  threatening him to surrender, but Milo jumps off  the bridge, lands on the bus’s roof and gets away.After this event, Milo returns home to find  his sister, Madeline, worried for him. She  tells him that she has been getting numerous  calls from the hospital, but he ignores her.  She then tries to convince him to surrender,  claiming that he has gone way too far. However,  Milo anticipates her actions and completes her  sentences, effectively silencing her. Not long  after, Madeline shows him a small plastic  horse toy, a reminder from their mother.  This makes him feel uneasy and he walks  away, saying that it is irrelevant now.On the other hand, Agent Lee is taken to the  hospital for his regular skin check up. Before  entering the burn chamber, he asks Olivia  to focus on finding commonalities among the  three victims. Heeding to his instruction,  Olivia returns back to the headquarters and  starts talking to the witnesses of the  accidents. After a while of inspection,  she discovers ties between the three victims and  a medical center; all three of them were directly  or indirectly related to this center.  She shares her discovery with Charlie,  and the two immediately head  to this very medical center.Upon arriving there, Olivia notices that one set  of patients are using the same ball-point pens as  they are unable to cope with digital devices. 

Later, they meet Dr. Levin, a chief doctor,  who recognizes all three victims of the bus  accidents. After briefing them some details  about the victims, Dr. Levin explains that they  have been helping mentally challenged patients  with experimental processes to boost their  intelligence. He also shows them video footage  of their patients in which Olivia spots Milo. Upon  inquiring about him, Dr. Levin responds that he  is one of their patients who also went through the  same drug trial that boosted his IQ exponentially.  He goes on to say that Milo was released from  the hospital under supervision of his sister and  that he was scheduled to return back in order to  reverse the experimental process. But now, he is  not responding to their calls, and he is killing  everyone who is trying to get control of him.After learning about Milo’s sister, the FBI agents  decide to pay her a visit.

Unbeknownst to them,  Milo is keeping a close eye on Olivia, noting  every single pattern of her movements and  predicting her next move. Later on,  Charlie and Olivia arrive at Milo’s  place where they are greeted by Madeline.  They ask her about Milo’s whereabouts,  but she claims to be unaware of it.  Sensing that she is hiding something,  the agents tell her about the crimes he has  committed and how dangerous it is to let  him roam free. While Charlie goes to investigate  Milo’s room, Olivia shares about her late sister,  revealing how they used to care for one another.  This comforts Madeline enough to share more  details about her brother. She explains that  Milo is able to predict the outcome of numerous  events to the smallest detail and that she can  break Milo’s concentration only by showing him  the toy horse. Olivia eventually manages to  persuade her to disclose anything she knows,  emphasizing that they are concerned for  civilians as well as Milo’s safety. Madeline  then hands her a note, revealing the location  of the hotel that Milo is currently staying at.After this, Olivia and Charlie discuss plans  with Astrid on how to capture Milo. However,  they soon realize that any plan would be  futile because he can predict their every  move.

As a result, they opt to approach  the hotel directly without any back up.In the meantime, Milo is seen at his hotel  room, looking down through the window and  envisioning scenarios that are going to happen  in the next few minutes. With his ability,  he predicts that Olivia and Charlie  will arrive soon and that they will  chase him. He also calculates that he can kill  Olivia by luring her through a marked zone of  a construction site where the air is too thin  and crushing her under a load of cement bricks.Just like he predicted, the two FBI agents  arrive at the hotel and find Milo waiting  for them in the street. He then runs towards the  construction, while the agents pursue him. Olivia,  who is unaware of the warning signs for the  thin-air zone, races through it instead of  stopping to put on a respirator. This actually  makes Milo’s calculation wrong. In addition,  she also dodges a pile of cemented bricks which  Milo assumed would crush her. The villain is  shocked to witness his calculation going wrong  and is ultimately caught by her. At this point  of time, Olivia nearly asphyxiates herself  due to low level of oxygen. But thankfully,  Charlie arrives in the nick of time and helps  her with a breathing apparatus. In the aftermath  of these events, Charlie asks Olivia about  why she did not stop to put on a respirator,  to which she responds that she did  not recognize the warning sign.Later on, Olivia brings Madeline to the  hospital where Milo is seen interacting  with a super computer.

According to the doctor,  the IQ-boosting drug has been in Milo’s brain  for too long, due to which they are unable to  carry out the reversing process. Now, his mind  has become so advanced that only machines can  comprehend his thoughts. Saddened by this news,  Madeline goes inside the room and leaves  the toy horse in front of her brother.The same evening, Olivia is at her place when  she experiences a vision of Peter, her boyfriend  from another universe. He tells her that she does  not belong to this universe. In order to back up  his claim, he reminds how her lack of knowledge  regarding this universe saved her life earlier.  According to him, she would have died if she had  recognized the warning signs and stopped there.  Peter encourages her to try recalling all of her  memories and also kisses her before vanishing.