Case 39 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Emily is a social worker assigned to investigate the family of 10 year old Lillith Sullivan, as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been abusing and overprotecting Lillith since the day she was born and proposes to her department to take the child away from her parents’ custody. Eventually, Emily’s suspicions are confirmed when Lillith’s parents try to kill her by roasting her alive in their oven. Emily saves Lillith with the help of Detective Mike Barron.

Lillith is to be sent to a children’s home, but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lillith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lillith’s parents are placed in a mental institution since they are no longer fit for their parental responsibility for the girl according to court. After Lillith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later another of Emily’s cases, a boy named Diego, murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime.

As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lillith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily’s best friend, Dr. Douglas J. Ames. During the session, Lillith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night, after receiving a “strange phone call” at his apartment, Douglas is panicked by the sight of a mass of hornets coming out of his body. His panic causes him to fall and break his neck on the toilet, killing him instantly. Emily becomes suspicious of having Lillith in her home, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lillith’s parents.

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