

Rao admits to developing the technology the woman uses to kill her victims, an injection whose effects can be remotely triggered through time. In 2015, while waiting for the woman on the beach, Lockhart listens to a voice message from Amy asking him to come to the birth of her child. Lockhart is arrested by Holt as an unseen Rao watches. Lockhart chases the suspect and wounds her hand with a bullet before she disappears in a time machine. Lockhart steals Holt's badge, uses it to impersonate a police officer, and tracks down the former girlfriend of the white nationalist leader, arriving at her home to find she has been murdered by the suspect. Lockhart meets Holt and advances the theory that the suspect is moving back in time as they are moving forward, killing each terrorist group members, but Holt dismisses the theory and insists Lockhart get psychiatric help.

Lockhart discovers a previously unrecorded victim from the 1988 murders and visits the victim's wife, who reveals her husband ran a white nationalist militia group. The teenage Amy lives with Holt, and Lockhart maintains only occasional contact with her. In 2006, Lockhart is a private investigator obsessed with solving the case, which he now believes involves time travel and Dr. She unintentionally kills Maddox and takes Lockhart hostage, again revealing knowledge about his life she could not know. After tracking the copycat to an airfield, Lockhart is shocked to find the same suspect from 1988, who is alive and has not aged. Naveen Rao, a physicist, insists this is proof of time travel, but Maddox and Lockhart ignore him. Lockhart traces keys retrieved in 1988 to an aircraft manufactured in 1996. Lockhart, now a detective caring for his young daughter Amy, can find no apparent motive or connection between the victims. Nine years later in 1997, an apparent copycat begins another killing spree. Meanwhile, Lockhart's wife dies in childbirth. Although confused about the many unexplained details, the police close the case. She predicts her own death just prior to a struggle, which ends with a train striking and killing her. When Lockhart confronts her, the suspect reveals details about his life, including that his wife will give birth that day. Lockhart and Maddox find the suspect and chase her into a subway, where she subdues Maddox. Lockhart and Maddox find an assault victim with the same wounds she describes her assailant as a black woman with a wounded hand before dying. Lockhart concludes that the deaths are connected when he finds similar puncture wounds on each victim. Police officer Thomas Lockhart and his partner, Maddox, investigate the case with Lockhart's brother-in-law, Detective Holt. In 1988, several people simultaneously hemorrhage to death in Philadelphia, disintegrating their brains and causing massive blood loss. It had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 21, 2019, before it was released on Netflix on September 27, 2019. It stars Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael C. In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed by Jim Mickle and written by Gregory Weidman and Geoff Tock.
