Cross (2024)

Emir Goodspeed, a well-known activist, is found dead in his car from an apparent meth overdose. The D.C. Metro Police Department quickly rules it as such and closes the case. Detective Alex Cross, a forensic psychologist and homicide detective, examines the body and notices inconsistencies like the death resembling an execution, with Emir strapped in a chair beforehand and his dreadlocks cut off by a killer in a leather smock and gloves.

Alex visits Emir's mother and sister Malika, who insist it was murder and suspect police involvement. Alex pushes back against the quick closure, earning him 48 hours from Police Chief Anderson to find proof, leveraging his trust in the African-American community to cool rising tensions.

In a flashback a year earlier, Alex's wife Maria is gunned down on the sidewalk, bleeding out as Alex rushes to her side; the killer remains uncaptured. Alex obsessively hunted the shooter for months, nearly killing an innocent man, but has since moved to a healthier headspace.

Alex's son Damon finds Maria's missing scarf from the day of her death inside their home, indicating the killer entered the house. Nana Mama hands Alex a new lead tied to a revenge-driven past from his family history.

Alex and his partner Detective John Sampson visit the coroner, who shows Emir's body on the gurney and a baggie of his last meal, further fueling Alex's suspicions.

Alex becomes the lead detective on the case, pursuing leads while balancing family life, including Damon's activities.

The killer, Ed Ramsey, known as the Fanboy Killer, murders victims by recreating methods of famous serial killers. He targets Alex and his family, escalating threats.

Alex investigates Emir's death deeper, uncovering connections to powerful figures. He attends a party hosted by Ed Ramsey, a suspect.

At Ed's party, Alex observes suspicious behavior. Later, the department turns against Alex; he is put on trial in a room full of powerful people after trying to expose Ed as the Fanboy Killer, but no one listens. He is ordered to go home and call his union rep, leaving him isolated and publicly disgraced.

Nana Mama's lead pulls Alex back into a revenge-driven past, but fallout from a previous witness interrupts.

Alex pressures a powerful guest from Ed's party, who admits seeing Ed with bloody hands, providing proof Ed is the killer.

This sparks Alex's realization that Ed times his murders around the birthdays of the serial killers he recreates.

Shannon, linked to the case, undergoes a transformation tied to an approaching date, accelerating events.

John Sampson confronts Massey, exposing her corrupt deal with Ed, forcing her to confirm it.

Alex tracks down the surgeon who altered victims post-mortem or pre-murder; she reveals she is not coerced but an active accomplice who wants Alex alive to witness the end.

The surgeon attacks Alex or sets a trap; John arrives in time to save him and reveals a tracker on Alex.

With his family in greater danger from escalating threats, Alex races to save them from Ed's attacks.

Ed Ramsey summons Alex to confess to all 11 murders, seeking notoriety.

Alex denies Ed the satisfaction by shifting suspicion to Bobby Trey instead.

John burns the incriminating book on a live feed, framing Bobby Trey as a "crooked ex-cop turned serial killer" and declaring Ramsey clinically insane.

Ramsey is only charged with the murder of Emir Goodspeed and the kidnapping of Shannon.

Chief Anderson confirms to Alex that she plans to run for Mayor.

Malika swallows her pride, collects Emir's belongings, and thanks John and Alex for solving the case.

After Damon's piano recital, Alex visits Maria's grave and begins therapy to confront his past.

Alex Cross races to Miss Nancy's remote family cabin in the woods, unarmed as demanded, after she has lured his children Damon and Janelle there under the pretense of safety from the stalker Peter. He arrives to find Peter holding the kids at gunpoint inside the dimly lit cabin, with Miss Nancy overseeing the scene, her face twisted in vengeful determination born from years of grief over her daughter Deirdre's death in prison--a death she blames on Cross's expert testimony labeling Deirdre irredeemable.

Cross confronts them directly, revealing the full truth he has pieced together: years ago, Peter murdered someone, and Miss Nancy orchestrated for Deirdre, a white woman with a clean record, to take the fall, believing the justice system would be lenient on her. But Cross's psychological evaluation exposed Deirdre as a psychopath beyond rehabilitation, leading to her life sentence and eventual suicide. Peter, hearing this exposed for the first time, recoils in horror, his loyalty fracturing as he refuses to harm the children, declaring Deirdre would not have wanted it.

In that moment of chaos and Peter's hesitation, Cross's partner John Sampson bursts in from the woods to rescue the kids, but Peter shoots him first, wounding him severely though not fatally. Sampson survives the gunshot, collapsing but alive as backup sirens approach in the distance.

Overcome by her unraveling plot and the weight of her own manipulations, Miss Nancy douses herself in accelerant and sets herself ablaze right there in the cabin, her body engulfed in flames as she screams in agony, ending her threat instantly and dying on the spot.

Cross shields his children, pulling them away from the fire and Peter's wavering grasp, ensuring their safety as the immediate danger passes. Peter, conflicted and broken by the revelations, does not resist arrest; he is taken into custody alive, his fate left as a captured accomplice in the stalking and Maria's murder, with no further violence from him.

With the cabin confrontation resolved, Cross wraps up the parallel Fanboy serial killer case from earlier episodes: he and Sampson had already confronted lobbyist Ed Ramsey at his lair, preventing him from murdering his romantic interest Shannon Witmer as his 12th victim. Cross arrived just in time to save Shannon, who survives but slips into a coma from her injuries. They burn Ramsey's macabre scrapbook chronicling his 11 murders--including activist Emir Goodspeed's--and arrest him, charging him only with one murder and one kidnapping to deny him the infamy of being remembered as a prolific killer. Ramsey is imprisoned for life.

Cross's grandmother Regina "Nana Mama" Cross, who was attacked earlier by Peter but survives, recovers at home. Cross's girlfriend Ellie, who had volunteered to take the kids to the cabin, remains safe and uninvolved in the final clash. John Sampson recovers from his gunshot wound. Bobby Trey, the former cop and Ramsey's paid accomplice in the murders, evades immediate capture.

In the post-credits scene, FBI Agent Kayla Craig meets Bobby Trey secretly, offering him immunity and money to confess his role in Ramsey's killings and reveal "dirt" on powerful DC elites that Ramsey held, setting up potential future conflict without resolving Trey's fate--he walks away free for now.

Cross returns home with his children, attends a televised meeting closing the activist murder case, and commits to therapy for his grief over wife Maria's murder, which Miss Nancy orchestrated as revenge. The family stands together, the stalking threat eliminated, though DC's underbelly hints at more corruption ahead.

Now, let me take you through that explosive finale scene by scene, as the flames flicker and truths shatter in the dim woods of that cursed cabin, every shadow heavy with the weight of lost lives and fractured loyalties.

The episode builds to Cross piecing it all together at Nana Mama's house after her attack--Peter's name drops from her lips, the old address links back to Deirdre Nolan, the woman Cross testified against decades ago. He realizes Miss Nancy, the sweet piano teacher who wormed into their lives, is Peter's mother and the architect of his wife's scarf-snatching terror. No time to waste: cell service dead in the woods, she intercepts his desperate landline call to Ellie, snarling the ultimatum--come alone, unarmed, or the kids die.

Cross pulls over first to reconcile with Sampson in the rain-slicked car, their brotherhood raw after tensions over Maria's unsolved death. Sampson insists on backup; they plot a flank. But Peter ambushes Sampson in the misty woods, gunshot cracking through the trees--Sampson drops, blood pooling on wet leaves, clutching his side but breathing, his grit keeping him fighting.

Cross bursts through the cabin door, hands high, eyes locked on Damon and Janelle huddled terrified by the stone fireplace, Peter's gun trembling inches from their heads. Miss Nancy paces like a caged wolf, her "street mother" facade cracked, grief for Deirdre fueling her demand: Cross must lose a child as she lost hers. The air reeks of pine and menace.

Cross unleashes the revelation, voice steady amid the kids' whimpers: Peter killed back then, you made Deirdre the patsy for her white privilege leniency, but my testimony--"she cannot be fixed"--sealed her fate. Peter's face crumples, gun lowering; he backs away muttering Deirdre's name wouldn't want this bloodshed of innocents.

Sampson staggers in then, gun drawn despite his wound, barking orders. Peter fires wild--bullet grazes Sampson again but he powers through, tackling Peter to the rough-hewn floor. Kids scramble to Cross's arms.

Miss Nancy, plot crumbling, grabs the gas can from the corner, splashes it over her housedress, flicks the match. Flames whoosh up her body in orange hellfire, her screams echoing off log walls as she thrashes, collapsing in a charred heap--dead by her own hand, vengeance consumed.

Cross hustles the kids outside into cool night air, Sampson cuffing a dazed Peter who surrenders without fight. Sirens wail closer; Peter's hauled away alive, destined for prison as Maria's killer and stalker.

Flash back weaves in the prior Ramsey climax: Cross and Sampson storm Ramsey's hidden lair, plastic surgeon clues leading them there. Ramsey monologues over Shannon bound and gagged, syringe poised for her as his 12th trophy. Cross kicks in, disarms him--Shannon saved but comatose in hospital. They torch the scrapbook in the interrogation room flames, Ramsey's eyes bulging in rage as Cross reads charges: one murder, one kidnapping--life without the serial killer legend he craved. Locked away forever.

Bobby Trey lurks in shadows, his million-dollar deal with Ramsey for 11 bodies intact, until post-credits: Kayla Craig slides into a dim booth with him, voice honeyed poison--immunity for confessions, cash for spilling elite dirt. Trey smirks, vanishes into night--free, scheming.

Cross cradles Damon and Janelle homeward, Nana Mama waiting with tea and hugs, her bruises fading. Ellie safe in the background. Sampson bandaged but unbreakable. Therapy session dawns--Cross speaks Maria's name, grief cracking open. Televised case closure on Emir. Fade on family silhouetted against DC skyline, stalker ashes scattered, but corruption's web lingers.

Yes, numerous characters die throughout Cross season 1. Here are the major deaths organized by episode:

Episode 1 - "The Man in the Window"

Tavio Lemmons is shot in the head by a sniper (presumed to be Bobby Trey Abellard) acting on orders from Ed Ramsey. Tavio dies because Emir called him the day of his death, leaving a voicemail revealing Emir's location. Detective Alex Cross recognizes this as a deliberate murder rather than the gang-related killing the police captain attempts to portray.

Emir Goodspeed dies of a drug overdose caused by Ed Ramsey, who administers methamphetamine to him off-screen.

Episode 2 - "Ride the White Horsey"

Vanessa Norris has her throat slit by Bobby Trey Abellard. After stealing Tavio's phone, Vanessa hides with Bobby Trey and sends herself a text of an incriminating voicemail from the phone. Bobby Trey, frustrated by her resistance and wanting to retrieve the phone, kills her of his own volition rather than on Ramsey's orders.

Episode 7 - "What Happens at Ramsey's"

Officer Jim Farley is stabbed repeatedly with a scalpel by Ed Ramsey. After faking his suicide via drug injection and awakening in the hospital morgue, Ramsey kills the medical examiner, steals his clothing, and approaches Shannon's hospital room. When Officer Farley stops him to check his badge, Ramsey stabs him multiple times and positions his body back in a seated position to avoid immediate detection.

Episode 8 - "Happy Birthday"

Miss Nancy (Karen Robinson) dies by setting herself on fire. Throughout the season, she has been tormenting Alex Cross as the mysterious stalker responsible for murdering his wife Maria the previous year. When her son Peter Lenox discovers that she manipulated Deirdre Nolan into confessing to his crime, leading to Deirdre's life sentence and subsequent suicide, Miss Nancy chooses to end her life rather than face arrest.

Peter Lenox is arrested after attempting to kill Shannon Cross alongside Ed Ramsey, though he does not die.

Ed Ramsey survives the season. Though he appears to take his own life via injection in episode 7, he awakens in the morgue. Alex Cross, suspecting the suicide was staged, confronts Ramsey as he attempts to kill Shannon and apprehends him at gunpoint.

Yes, the 2024 Prime Video series Cross features a post-credits scene (also referred to as a mid-credits scene in some analyses) at the end of its season 1 finale.

The scene opens in a dimly lit, nondescript interrogation room in Washington, DC, where FBI agent Kayla Craig (Alona Tal), Cross's sharp-witted confidant with a steely gaze betraying her internal calculations, sits across from Bobby Trey (Johnny Ray Gill), the disgraced former cop whose face is etched with a mix of defiance and weary resignation after his role in aiding serial killer Ed Ramsey's murders.

Kayla leans forward, her voice low and measured, exuding quiet authority as she lays out an offer Bobby can't easily refuse: full immunity and just a 24-month sentence if he confesses to six of Ramsey's eleven murders, takes the fall as the singular "Fanboy Killer," and hands over Ramsey's prized scrapbook of incriminating "dirt" on powerful, wealthy DC elites--politicians, influencers, and corrupt figures whose secrets could unravel the city's underbelly.

Bobby's eyes narrow, his jaw tightening with the raw sting of betrayal from his old partner Ramsey, now erased from history by Cross and Sampson's deliberate destruction of that same scrapbook; he feels the noose of his own crimes closing in--two murders Alex Cross will inevitably pin on him--yet a flicker of opportunistic cunning sparks as he weighs the deal, his mind racing with thoughts of survival, potential revenge, and the leverage this "dirt" could still grant him behind bars.

Kayla sweetens the pot with a promise of cold, hard cash for the blackmail material, her expression unreadable but laced with ambition; internally, she's driven by a hunger to expose corruption, though shadows of doubt linger--will she wield this power for justice, or risk painting a target on herself and Cross, setting the stage for season 2's brewing storm of new enemies and moral ambiguity?

The camera lingers on Bobby's hesitant nod, the tension thick as unspoken threats hang in the air, cutting to black on the promise of chaos in DC's elite circles, leaving Cross's world forever shadowed by this fragile alliance.

Ed Ramsey is the serial killer in season 1 who commits murders styled after famous killers, timing them around their birthdays, and confesses to 11 murders but is only charged with Emir Goodspeed's murder and Shannon's kidnapping after Alex and John frame him as clinically insane.

Bobby Trey is framed by John Sampson as a crooked ex-cop turned serial killer when John burns an incriminating book on live feed to deny Ed Ramsey notoriety, shifting suspicion from Ramsey.

Alex Cross investigates Emir Goodspeed's apparent overdose death, noticing inconsistencies, visits Emir's mother and sister Malika, secures 48 hours to prove murder, involves FBI Agent Kayla Craig to trace a burner phone leading to Tavio.

Nana Mama gives Alex a new name tied to a revenge-driven past, pulling him into personal history amid the case, though he's drawn back by witness fallout.

The surgeon alters victims and is an active accomplice to Ed Ramsey, not coerced, wanting Alex alive to witness the end; Alex tracks her down and John saves him from her.

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