Dangerous Intuition

Kate Aldrich is an architect in Seattle, Washington, who is the divorced mother of Isabel . Kate seems to be having nightmares / flashbacks of what seems to be a murder suicide when she was young (the young girl is played by Dakota Guppy), which makes her very protective of Isabel. She can't quite shake the feeling that something is wrong as her daughter leaves for a trip with her ex-husband, Dan Beckman, and his new wife, Laura. Kate becomes convinced that her daughter is being harmed or neglected by Laura while staying with Dan under their shared custody agreement, especially when Isabel says that a man was watching her while Laura left her alone when she went for a massage. She speaks with her therapist, Dr. Ellis, who convinces her to try a new medication.

Laura tries to convince Dan that Kate is unstable, and pushes him to file for full custody. After Dan advises Kate that he was taking her to court again, Kate meets with Dan’s mother, Barbara, and says that she’s got a terrible feeling that Laura is going to hurt Isabel, that she’s having premonitions showing Isabel in danger holding the doll that Laura gave her. Barbara tells Kate that she doesn’t know much about Laura, that she knows that her parents died when she was young, and that Dan said it was a touchy subject, so she never asked for more information.

When they go to court, Kate’s lawyer, Hugh reassures Kate that the courts favour the mother. Dan’s lawyer claims that Kate is unstable, and has been drinking. He tells Judge Barnes about Kate’s “premonitions” that she shared with his mother. Judge Barnes orders a psychiatric evaluation for Kate. After the hearing, Kate asks Hugh to help her look into Laura’s background. Hugh does some digging, and finds out that the former “Laura Thomas” doesn’t exist. Kate wants to go to the judge with this information, but Hugh convinces her that there may be a reason why Laura changed her name, and asks her to promise to not do anything stupid while he digs some more.

When Barbara tries to talk to Laura about “going easy” on Kate, Laura verbally shuts her down. Barbara is curious though, and breaks into a locked box in Laura and Dan’s closet. In the box, she finds several newspaper articles. When she leaves a voice mail for Kate, Laura catches her and realizes what she’s done. Kate arrives home and checks her voice mail, which includes Barbara’s message followed by an urgent message from Dan, saying that something “terrible” has happened”. Kate rushes to Dan’s house, to find out that Barbara seems to have drowned in the family pool.

Hugh comes back with more information on Laura, saying that she was previously married, and that her former husband and step-daughter were killed a couple of years before she met Dan. After their death, Laura changed her last name to Thomas. At Barbara’s funeral, Kate and Laura get into a pushing match, and Kate tells Dan that Laura is not who he thinks she was, that she was married before.

Kate visits Laura’s former husband’s ex-wife, Ann Campbell, who tells Kate that Laura killed her ex-husband and daughter. She shows Kate a picture of her daughter, holding the same doll that Laura gave Isabel, and says that she is sure that Laura was behind the accident. Kate talks with Hugh, who says that the former husband’s accident seems to have been legitimate, due to drinking and driving. In the meantime, Kate has missed her psychiatric evaluation, and Hugh lets her know that Dan is going to use the incident at the cemetery to push for custody.

Kate continues to have bad dreams, imagining finding Isabel locked in a shed. When she picks up Isabel, she has packed bags in the car, and tells Isabel they’re going on a “little trip”. When Kate tries to cross the border into Canada with Isabel, the border guard is suspicious, and doesn’t want to let her through. He orders her to pull her vehicle over to the inspection centre. Dan is called, who comes to pick up Isabel while Kate is being interviewed by the police. Hugh meets with Kate and asks what Kate was thinking. Kate says she needs to protect Isabel, that she would do anything to keep her safe. Hugh asks Kate to consider if her premonitions are just a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Detective Debrinsky gets the results of Barbara’s autopsy, which show that Barbara was suffocated, and did not drown. He calls in Dan to let him know, and asks if Laura would have any reason to harm her mother-in-law, as she was the last person to see her alive. Dan confronts Laura, and asks if there’s anything she’s not telling him. Laura says she told the police everything she knows. Dan doesn’t know what to believe. Dan asks Laura if she was married before. She admits she was, but says all she cares about is her life now, that it was just so complicated. Dan and Laura hear a noise in the house, so Dan takes a baseball bat and goes to see what it was. He gets stabbed in the back in the kitchen by an unseen assailant.

Detective Debrinsky shows up at Kate’s door, and asks her where he was the previous night. He tells her that Dan was attacked, but will pull through, and that Laura and Isabel are missing. He says that he will notify Kate if they get any more information on Laura and Isabel, and that he hopes that Dan will be able to identify his attacker when he wakes up.

Kate slips through the police cars at Dan’s house, and sneaks in. She finds the box with the newspaper articles in the closet, and they include an article about a young girl hidden in a crawl space on Concession Road while her parents were killed. Kate realises the young girl was Laura. She calls Hugh, who is with the Detective, and tells him that Laura saw her parents killed. She says that Laura is bringing Isabel to the house on Concession Road. When she becomes aware that Hugh is with the police, she hangs up, but Hugh knows where she’s going, so he and the detective rush out.

Kate arrives at the house on Concession Road, and breaks into the house. She doesn’t realise that she’s being watched as she searches for Isabel. Kate recalls her premonition, and recognises landmarks in the house that match. As she looks around, she’s knocked out from behind. When she wakes up, she’s in the crawl space with Laura, which is locked from the outside. Laura tells her about her mother’s murder at the hands of her father, John Slater, and Kate realises that’s the nightmares / premonitions she had. Laura was in the crawl space for a week before the police found her. When her father was let out of jail, he came back after her, which is why she changed her name. She says that Isabel was taken by her father, because he thinks it’s Laura, and that he thinks Laura is his wife.

Laura says that her father would have Isabel in a shed by the woods (which was the shed Kate saw in her premonitions). John hears Kate coming, and tries to keep Isabel quiet. He attacks Kate from behind, choking her, saying she would never take his daughter away. Laura shoots him in the back, and as he dies, John realises she’s Laura, his “little girl”, and wants to be a family again. Laura says it’s too late, and shoots him again. The detective and Hugh show up, as Kate gets Isabel out of the shed.

Hugh apologises to Kate, tells her he’s sorry he doubted her. Kate and Laura share a moment, as Kate leaves to go home with Isabel.

• Tricia Helfer as Kate Aldrich
• Estella Warren as Laura Beckman
• Dylan Neal as Hugh Dinsman
• David Cubitt as Dan Beckman
• Genea Charpentier as Isabel Beckman
• Dakota Guppy as Young Laura
• Serge Houde as Detective Debrinsky
• John Innes as Dr. Ellis
• Johannah Newmarch as Marion Slater
• David Orth as Frank Fellows
• Jill Teed as Judge Alison Barnes
• Dean Wray as John Slater
• Linden Banks as Minister

Filming took place in Burnaby and Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The working title of the film was Deadly Visions.

The film was broadcast on Lifetime Television at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2013.[1]

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