Edge of darkness who is jedburgh

I don't like it. Northmoor Doctor : I'm not a counselor. I know you want to banter with me. I don't do that. I can only give you the facts. Darius Jedburgh : Well, we all know what the facts are. We live a while, and then we die sooner than we planned. Darius Jedburgh : I don't know what it means to have lost a child, but I know what it means never to have had one. Thomas Craven : Yeah, got nobody left to bury you.

Darius Jedburgh : You got a family? State Trooper 2 : Yeah. Darius Jedburgh : Kids? Darius Jedburgh : [lowers his weapon]. Thomas Craven : I'm not gonna arrest anyone. Darius Jedburgh : I never do.

Darius Jedburgh : By what standard? Darius Jedburgh : Now, you know better than anyone, cases like these are never solved. They're simply too complicated, too much hard work. There's a lot going on out there in this world. Marxian Rating :. What is an edge? A border, a limit, a dividing line. An edge, though, differently from any generic limit, tends to refer specially to a border which separates something from some sort of nothingness: You are not the on edge when you are facing a wall, though that is a border and a limit.

You are on the edge when you face an abyss. Many things can function as this bottomless opposition, near which anguish and vertigo are all we experience. In this film, we are on the edge of darkness - so it is not the body that is on the edge, almost falling, but the eyes that are on the brink of not-seeing, of not knowing or believing.

The main character, Thomas, also suggests this: St. Thomas, after all, is the saint who had to see it to believe it. It tells the story of Thomas Craven Mel Gibson , a Boston police detective, who seems to have been the target of a killing, but who loses his daughter Emma instead, shot in his place accidentally.

As Thomas investigates the murder, we find out that Emma had discovered that the company she worked for, Northmoor, was not only secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons, but also doing it to foreign specifications so that the dirty bombs would be traced to other nations - She was the true target all along. Revenge is all that is left for Thomas. Detective stories always dwell within the dialectics of the known and unknown.

This is also why detective stories, and mystery tales in general, are such great ideological mechanisms. If you have a question and you look for an answer, and you find one, the question of if it being the right answer will hardly come to mind.

If the structure is that of a journey towards discovery, the fact that something is discovered already justifies its veracity. Besides, every move deeper into the conspiracy also prompts flashbacks of old memories of his daughter, looking up to him, giving detective Craven the strength he needs to keep up the investigation. In the last chapter of Studies on Hysteria , Freud gives a description of how memories seem to be organized:. These themes exhibit a second kind of arrangement.

Each of them is - I can not express it in any other way - stratified concentrically round the pathogenic nucleus. The deeper we go the more difficult it becomes for the emerging memories to be recognized, till near the nucleus we come upon memories which the patient disavows even in reproducing them.

It is this peculiarity of the concentric stratification of the pathogenic psychical material which, as we shall hear, lends to the course of these analyses their characteristic features. But was is there to know here? Things are a bit more complicated in this film.

Though the basic thread of the plot is finding out who killed his daughter, when Thomas Craven actually does find out it seems like a minor detail in the narrative. He might not have known who the actual assassin was, but he knew who had sent him for a long time already. Neither the thug who killed her, nor Jack Bennet Danny Huston playing the same role as in The Constant Gardner , the pragmatic president of a company involved in dark conspiracies , were untouchable for Craven - finding out who they were and killing them was never the issue.

The issue was an ethical one. How far could he go? The film quite early on presents us with four different men around which the narrative develops. There is a moment in the first dialogue he has with Craven, the first time he appears to us as well, in which he says:. I think. Though I am sure I cannot imagine its full dimensions. He eventually discovers through one of Emma's friends, an activist who is nearly killed by another of Northmoor's agents, that Jack Bennett Danny Huston , head of Northmoor, ordered the murder of Craven's daughter, as well as the activists Emma was working with to steal evidence of the illegal nuclear weapons.

Northmoor personnel kill a hitman marked as a fall guy after he is set up for killing Emma. Craven confronts lawyer and Massachusetts U. Senator Jim Pine Damian Young , contacted earlier by Emma, revealing that Craven knows almost everything that happened.

After examining his fridge with a Geiger counter Craven discovers that his milk has been contaminated, most likely with the poison used on his daughter. His fellow detective and friend, Bill Jay O. Sanders , comes to Craven's home while the Northmoor agents break into the house. Craven realizes that Bill set him up. The agents taser and kidnap Craven. He wakes up handcuffed to a gurney in the Northmoor facility, but manages to escape.

His health deteriorating rapidly from the poison, Craven goes to Bennett's house. 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.