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| “ | Hickory Dickory Doc. Cain has picked his lock. He did a bad deed and Josh comes to bleed. Hickory Dickory Doc. | „ |
| ~ Carter's nursery rhyme about his alternate personalities. |
Dr. Carter Nix Jr. is the protagonist villain of the 1992 psychological thriller Raising Cain. Nix is a child psychologist and family man who suffers from dissociative identity disorder as a result of having been experimented on as a child by his father and fellow child psychologist, Carter Nix, Sr.
He and Nix Sr. are both portrayed by John Lithgow, who also portrayed Arthur Mitchell in Dexter, Eric Qualen in Cliffhanger, Earl Talbot Blake in Ricochet, Lord Farquaad in Shrek, Jean-Claude in Rugrats in Paris, B.Z. in Santa Claus: The Movie, Lamar Blackburn in The Accountant, Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Glenn Motch in The Campaign, and Burke in Blow Out.
Biography[]
Carter Nix Sr. tortured his son, Carter Nix Jr., as part of his experiments to make children get alternate personalities from severe trauma. Nix Jr. was the most successful subject, left with five distinct personalities: Carter Jr., the "host" personality who goes through the motions of day-to-day life; Carter Sr., his sadistic father; Cain, a sleazy con artist; Josh, a scared little boy; and Margo, a nanny who cares for the other alters and kills anyone who presents a real or imagined threat to them.
When Sr. was caught, he wrote a suicide note and disappeared to continue research off the grid and without detection. The young Nix, despite being abandoned, would not only retain the alters, but he would also grow up to be a successful child psychologist, marrying a hospital doctor named Jenny O'Keefe and having a young daughter, Amy.
Sr. and Jr. would still be in touch, as O'Keefe would notice Jr. would observe Amy for research, Sr. recruited him and his alters in plans to abduct and hold captive more children for experimentation when he emigrated out to a private facility he was preparing in Norway. With the present dissociative identity disorder, Jr. wasn't hard for Sr. to condition on cue. At the coaxing of senior and Cain, the movie starts with Nix abducting Karen Bowman and her son Sam. Leaving her unconscious in his trunk, Nix later meets up with his family, then Sr., while as Cain. Sr. chastises Cain for his inadequacy and warns him of the plan going awry if he doesn't manage the situation better. He then sedates Cain so Nix comes back and returns home without remembering the encounter in his own present state, hoping Nix as himself will clean up the mess in a less violent way.
He then goes to the park with Nan, a babysitter watching over an infant the family knows. While there, Nix is shocked to see O'Keefe and her mister, Jack Dante, a doctor O'Keefe had an affair with when his wife was in a coma, having sex in the leaves. Only aggravating his alters more, especially when he finds out she's planning a divorce to run to Dante, Cain comes forward and stabs Nan to death before stealing the baby, despite Josh's protests when showing as a hallucination and threatening to reveal the spree. Nan's corpse is shoved into Dante's trunk to frame him for the crimes out of sadistic revenge and covering their tracks, planning to tell the sketch artist his face to further frame him. He later seduces O'Keefe into bed before smothering her with a pillow. When the car's pushed into Half Noon Marsh, O'Keefe in the backseat, wakes up and scrambles to get out, screaming for Carter as she sinks. Amy's the last child who's taken to Sr. at the motel he's hiding in.
The police receive the case of the spree and, seeing the connection to Nix Sr., bring on Dr. Lynn Waldheim, who was a part of Sr.'s projects and co-wrote the book on Jr. before quitting and realizing Cain, whom she never knew was Jr., was a tortured child by Sr.'s design to manufacture the later personalities. The car's soon found, and Bowman's in the coroner's office, scratched and with bloody nails having failed top escape, her dying expression frozen in utter mad panic and a fear of death. O'Keefe is nowhere to be found. Dante's fingered for the killer and kidnapper when Cain's incriminating false evidence leads to him and Nan's corpse is found near-perfectly arranged in his car. Dante's taken into custody on suspicion.
But that doesn't last long when Nix arrives back at home, seeing on his security footage O'Keefe is drenched and lividly shaken but alive. Searching through the darkness of the house to find her, when he tries to flip on a switch, O'Keefe slashes Nix's wrist with a scalpel, beats and tackles to the ground, and, still out of shock from Nix being guilty and for trying to murder her, demands Amy's location. Nix hallucinates Cain and screams at him to "tell" O'Keefe, but she states there's no one there. Nix is officially arrested for being responsible for the spree killings and kidnappings, and Waldheim is surprised to realize Nix was Cain all along, verbalizing the connection to the police and revealing to them the personalities mentioned in Sr.'s book, Raising Cain, were that of Nix's and used in the murders and abductions.
Cain appears and makes Nix be ready to escape with the help of his other alters. Waldheim isolates Nix alone in the basement with a policeman guarding the room outside the door. Hypnotizing Josh forward Waldhiem tries to console Josh, who's terrified and crying over Cain's crimes and mentions Margo as the nanny of the personalities and the children. He goes into her responsibilities and then implies she can as scary and dangerous as Cain. Nix blacks out again, and Margo comes forward. She silently and smugly sits across from Waldheim, who hopes to know where the children are. Margo beckons her closer, before headbutting her unconscious and knocking out the guarding cop. She then steals Waldheim's wig and escapes looking like her, witnessed by O'Keefe herself.
O'Keefe soon tracks the hotel where Sr. is stationed. Unknowingly passing by Nix as Margo carrying groceries, as she and the alters have brought all the children to Sr. O'Keefe finds Sr. and, holding the scalpel, screams for him to return her child to her. He smugly refuses, preaches his plans, and says he'll get away with everything because of his faked death. By this point, Margo's moved the children out of the way to not be hurt by the confrontation. The police and Dante arrive as Sr.'s holding a revolver on Amy in a standoff, threatening to shoot her or throw her off the motel overpass. With Dante below, Margo surprises everyone by stabbing Sr. in the back with the scalpel O'Keefe dropped. Amy plummets with Dante just beneath her, a large clock hand shot on reflex by Sr. and breaking nearly in time to impale Dante. But Dante catches Amy and is also tackled out of the way by police just in time, so the broken point merely clatters to the ground. The children are saved, but Nix and his alters escape.
Talking with her friend Sarah from earlier in the movie, they discuss Sr.'s revealed plans, and O'Keefe laments on what danger she didn't see and what it means for her family now. She sees Amy run off into the woods, and when she finds her, Amy tells O'Keefe "daddy's here". O'Keefe believes she's imagining things, and when she squats to pick her daughter up, behind her is revealed to be Nix as Margo fully dressed in a wig, makeup, and a red coat. O'Keefe's and Nix's fates are left unknown.
Victims[]
- Karen Bowman - drowned in a marsh while locked in a car trunk
- Sam Bowman - abducted for Nix Sr.; was rescued
- Nan - stabbed to death
- Unidentified baby - abducted for Nix Sr.; was rescued
- Dr. Jack Dante - framed with Nan's corpse in the trunk of his car; later nearly impaled by a sharp large clock hand shot by Nix Sr. when Nix stabbed Sr.; survived and was cleared
- Amy Nix - abducted for Nix Sr.; was rescued
- Dr. Jenny O'Keefe - attempted to drown in the backseat of the car in the marsh; she escaped; possibly attacked later, her fate unknown
- Dr. Lynn Waldheim - headbutted unconscious; stole her wig to escape disguised as her
- Unidentified stationed cop - knocked unconscious
- Carter Nix Sr. - stabbed in the back with a scalpel