#THE WITNESS MOVIE CODE#

Rachel and Eli bring in an Amish doctor who slowly nurses him back to health but they break their honor code and do not report the gunshot wound to the authorities. Before he can leave, however, he passes out from his wound and wrecks his car on the farm. Injured, Book races to his sister’s house, takes her car, and transports Rachel and Samuel back to Lancaster County far away from the dirty cops and tells Rachel they need to forget the whole thing and he is going to disappear. McFee escapes but not before shooting Book. But in the parking lot of his apartment, McFee shows up and a shootout ensues. Book tells his partner then scrams to his apartment. Book tells his boss, Captain Schaefer, who asks who else knows. The next day, Samuel is at the police station looking at mug shots when he stares into a police trophy case, revealing the killer to be a dirty cop named McFee. The scared Amish family stay the night at Book’s sister’s house. They don’t get all their information so they require Rachel and Samuel to delay their departure until Samuel can I.D. Once the murder is reported, the Philly police department sends Detective Lieutenant John Book and his partner to question Samuel. While in a stall, he witnesses the murder of an undercover police officer.ĭuring a frantic search by the killer for any witnesses, Samuel escapes detection. As they wait and are overwhelmed with the modern world they do not fully understand, Samuel uses the restroom. The train makes a stop at the Philadelphia station where they are delayed. Rachel, her husband’s father, Eli, and Rachel’s son, Samuel, all live on the farm together completely independent of modern conveniences.Īfter the funeral, Rachel and Samuel board a modern-day train to visit Rachel’s sister. It is though we are transported back in time.

Witness starts in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania countryside where we are introduced to an Amish community attending the funeral of Rachel Lapp’s husband at their lush turn-of-the-century farm.

The witness movie