The first we see of Glenn Close in Wake Up Dead Man, Rian Johnson’s acclaimed third Knives Out mystery film, she comes out of nowhere. It’s a comic bit, as Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud, new to the small-town parish where a series of grisly murders will soon occur, suddenly realizes that Close’s devout secretary Martha Delacroix — who’s been a loyal member of the church since childhood — has been standing within a few feet of him without making a peep.
It’s a nice setup for the film’s grand twist, which reveals Martha as the tortured mastermind behind the killings of her church’s domineering priest, Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), and later one of its congregants, the town doctor Nat (Jeremy Renner). Martha was hoping to preserve the fortune left by the church’s founder, which had been distilled to a valuable diamond, but after…
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