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The PUZZLE MAKER
A career driven NSA analyst gifts his autistic daughter an antique jigsaw puzzle, but when she begins to assemble the pieces, it conjures the evil spirit of its creator, a dark entity who plagues their family.
In the present day, Paul Quimby and his partner Kelvin infiltrate a high-ranking cyber security expert’s office in hopes of disrupting a ransomware attack on the German government.
Their job is a success, but it causes Paul to miss out on his daughter Molly’s spelling bee, which she loses on the last word in heartbreaking fashion. Paul wants to reach his daughter Molly before it’s too late. A respected NSA analyst, he can decipher encrypted intercepts, but not his autistic 10-year-old.
Paul is never around due to his demanding job, and now, with the Reichstag Ransomware attack putting the world on high alert, his wife Gwen fears his hours will become even more hectic.
While overseas, Paul peruses paintings on display at a street vendor’s table. He’s immediately drawn to an impressionistic portrait of none other than Russian Count Nicolai, Countess Tatiana, and their daughter Olivia, who bears a striking resemblance to Molly. But it’s not just a rare painting, it’s a jigsaw puzzle, one of the first of its kind, and one with a dark history. It seems the subjects of the puzzle portrait met a horrifyingly tragic end at the hands of the Count who went mad one day, haunted by a mysterious entity.
Created by Edvard Von Donnikan, as part of a black magic ritual, the puzzle is believed to be his last, and most complex work, with some 662 pieces, minus the four corner pieces kept in a separate case and delivered to Paul at the last minute by a courier who meets a grisly fate.
Despite the odd seemingly random occurrence, and the dark history of the Count, Paul sees this as the perfect gift to Molly, to lift her spirits. But when he presents it to her, it becomes clear this is no ordinary puzzle. Molly becomes obsessed with it, and strange events begin to plague them.
Molly seems to become another child altogether, even spontaneously speaking in German. Eerie whispers are heard. Strange visitors begin showing up in the middle of the night, setting off the security system. Molly begins having horrifying visions of mad Count Nikolai chasing her. But worst of all, the dark figure of the Puzzle Maker, Edvard Von Donnikan, is summoned, and lurks the hallways of their home, wielding a handheld jigsaw, and growing stronger each night with each piece of the puzzle that Molly sets into place.
When otherworldly voices turn up on Paul’s signals intelligence monitoring, implicating him as a possible mole, his life is turned upside down. And when Molly has a seizure and is hospitalized, the Doctors hear only her fevered pleas for help from an abusive father. Adding to the chaos, Paul’s mentor and Gwen's ex, Roger Blakely shows up unexpectedly and begins spending time with his family while he’s otherwise occupied.
After being interrogated by his NSA bosses, Paul returns home with one mission: Destroy the puzzle and break its decidedly macabre hold on his family. But before he can, Dodard, a mysterious ex-NSA operative shows up and warns him that the puzzle has become linked to his comatose daughter and that separating the pieces will leave her in limbo between our world, and the dark “puzzleverse” inhabited by Von Donnikan, forever.
Dodard tells Paul, he must complete the puzzle, and return it to where it was created to destroy it-- Castle Orloff, Germany. But, when the NSA links Dodard to the ransomware attack, authorities are on their trail, forcing them to flee the scene without the puzzle.
A fugitive now, Paul must return to Germany, infiltrate a cybersecurity summit being held at the castle, and steal the puzzle back from his adversary, the real mole, who has been manipulating things from the start and is secretly in league with Von Donnikan’s dark entity.
Copyright 2022 by Brefni O'Rourke. All rights reserved.
Chris Pratt
Rose Byrne
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“I love this whole concept you have crafted here. I love how it starts with this gothic horror intro and we go into a contemporary cybersecurity thriller. The whole thing reads like Insidious meets Mr. Robot.
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