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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

CastDaniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church
Year released2025
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Knives Out | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Did Martha attempt suicide?

Numerous scenes set in church graveyard throughout film Priest Jud Duplenticy punches Deacon Clark in the face. 
Jud tells Bishop Langstrom, ”... I still got that fighter instinct...” (0:00)

Monsignor Jefferson Wicks tells Jud, "... after a dream..." (0:06)

Groundskeeper Samson Holt tells Jud, "It’s Monsignor Wicks who gives me the strength every day to not go back to the bottle..." (0:08)

Wicks’ assistant Martha Delacroix tells Jud, referring to Jefferson’s father Prentice, "... he was widowed...”
”... I saw Prentice... die on the holy altar..."
”... In a demonic rage, she defiled this holy place...” (0:10)

Jefferson’s mother Grace punches young Martha in the face repeatedly. (0:14, 2:00)

Politician Cy Draven tells Jud, "... I didn’t have that cult of personality thing..." 
”... the trans thing...” (0:16)

Author Lee Ross tells Jud, referring to his readers, "... The all look like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski." (0:19)

Wicks preaches: "... Have that affair... Satisfy your selfish heart. Selfish... My own mother made that selfish choice with me, and I cursed her selfish heart for it... Selfish..." (0:21)

Jud tells the group, "... I built up so many walls of anger, addiction..." (0:23)

Jud tells Wicks, "... Martha keeps her medical bills... making you physically incapable of an erection... He was... smart... paranoid..." 
”... it’s mostly symbolic...” 
Referring to Cy, ”... stuff he’s doing worry you?...” 
Wicks beats Jud.
Wicks: ”... those bare-knuckle instincts coming back...” (0:27)

Jud appears intoxicated. Bartender Nikolai tells him, "Don’t worry..." (0:32)

Jud, referring to Wicks: "... spent, emotionally..." (0:34)

The parishioners react to the death of Wicks. (0:35)

Jud: "This was an insane event..." (0:36)

Private detective Benoit tells Jud, "... Proud heretic..." 
”... the intended emotional effect... filled with malevolence and misogyny and homophobia...” 
Jud: ”... You’re being honest...” 
Benoit: ”... you can’t always be honest...” 
Jud: ”You can always be honest...”
Benoit: ”... You haven’t slept all night.” (0:40)

Police chief Geraldine Scott tells Benoit, "... I just need to feel confident..." (0:50)

Jud tells Benoit, "No, that’s nuts" 
Benoit: ”Nuts...” (0:53)

Jud tells Benoit, "Okay, you’re freaking me out now." (1:00)

Jud tells Benoit, "... Getting sober saved his life... It was an impulse." (1:02)

Benoit tells Jud, "... You have listened... with empathy and grace..." (1:04)

Wicks in casket (1:05)

Ross tells the others, "... the idiot versions of all of us..." 
Lawyer Vera Draven: ”Oh, the idiot versions...” (1:08)

Vera tells Wicks, "... the loyal little idiot..." 
Wicks tells Dr. Nat Sharp, ”... going to work drunk, treating patients, children, while drunk... The medical board should know... It’s bootlicking idiocy...” 
”And Vera, you are your father’s nightmare.” 
Ross: ”I am so confused.” (1:12)

Cy asks Vera, "... and I told him, ‘Are you nuts?’..." (1:18)

Cy tells Wicks, "... Your cult of personality..." (1:18)

Cy tells Jud, "... my political instincts..." (1:19)

Secretary Louise tells Jud, referring to her mother, "Uh, she won’t talk to me..." (1:25)

Jud prays, "... give her wisdom..." (1:26)

Jud tells Benoit, referring to Wicks, "... he was talking about his own ego..." (1:29)

Jud appears to regain consciousness. (1:34)

Geraldine tells Benoit, "Okay, Wicks was a hundred percent medically dead dead..." (1:35)

Martha reacts to Samson’s death. (1:37)

Jud reacts to a vision of Wicks. (1:38)

Vial labeled "Pentobarbital" (1:46)

Jud: "... in a moment of fear and rage..." 
Ross: ”In a moment of fear and rage...” (1:48)

Benoit tells Scott, "... The flask... was spiked with a very powerful tranquilizer... fell to the floor unconscious..."
”A moment of distraction presents itself... remove the incriminating drug-laced flask...”
Jud: ”... Why do all this insane, elaborate stuff...?” 
Benoit: ”... now a symbol of the Lord’s power...” (1:49)

Martha tells Benoit, "... you made yourself the fool..."
Mourners gathered at the crypt (1:57)

Martha: “With defiant pride, I confessed...”
”l... to steal the diamond for his own greed...” 
”... but a symbol that would save my church...” 
Benoit: ”And who had access to medical-grade tranquilizers." (2:01)

Mason punches Jud in the face, rendering him unconscious. (2:07)

Martha: "... He had poisoned my coffee with a lethal dose of pentobarbital..." 
Ross appears intoxicated. (2:08)

Benoit, referring to Martha: ”... She’s taken pentobarbital.” (2:10)

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