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| “ | Why did you come back? You should be dead by now. Why aren't you dead? I f***ing buried you. How did you get away from me? How did you get out, huh? Now, I have to f***ing do the whole thing all over again! | „ |
| ~ Norquist as he is about to kill Dakota and his last words. |
Douglas Norquist is the main antagonist of the 2007 psychological thriller film I Know Who Killed Me. He is the piano teacher of Aubrey Fleming, who turns out to be a serial killer who tortures women before burying them alive.
He was portrayed by Thomas Tofel as Douglas himself and Theo Kypri as the Blue Man.
Biography[]
A mysterious serial killer is terrorizing the quiet suburb of New Salem who abducts young women, holding them captive for weeks torturing them before killing them by burying them alive. Aubrey Fleming, a piano student of Norquist, becomes the killer's most recent victim when she is kidnapped during a night out with her friends, tormented by having dry ice exposed to her hands then ripping the skin off and severing the fingers with the glass blade, then cutting her leg off.
One night, a dismembered woman is found by the side of a deserted road with one of her hands and legs amputated then put through surgery. Everyone is convinced that the woman is Aubrey whom she looks like, although she insists that she is a stripper named Dakota Moss. Everyone, especially Aubrey's parents, are convinced Dakota was simply suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and there would be no coincidence that she shares the same wounds identical to the killer's other victims, being a missing hand and half a leg. The police then try to ask Aubrey who the killer was and what she saw but they failed to get the right information into finding the killer although they try to help find the killer and take it to custody.
Dakota starts to experience wounds coming from nowhere and learns from a video on the internet that identical twins when one of the twins gets hurt, the wounds goes to the other twin which means both of them experience the same wounds. Soon, Dakota starts visualizing a figure butchering his captive and confronts Aubrey's father Daniel about them. Dakota's research comes to discover that she and Aubrey are twins born by Virginia Sue Moss. When the Flemings' own child died in the incubator, Daniel adopted Aubrey in secret to his wife Susan, paying Virginia over the years by mail. The two twins share a psychic connection that lets them share pain, communications, and share experiences, explaining some of Dakota's stories.
Learning that the killer through a mirror vision has Aubrey hit with a shovel and buried in a blue glass coffin in a forest. Dakota's visions take her investigating a cemetery where Aubrey's friend Jennifer Toland was buried after she was murdered. At her grave is a blue ribbon from a piano competition, with a message on the back written by Norquist. Dakota comes to the conclusion that Norquist was the one who killed Jennifer and abducted Aubrey after they expressed intentions to quit their piano lessons, taking off their fingers, arm, and a leg in a twisted act of retribution. Daniel sees this and apologizes on his behalf for not believing Dakota and for not helping her find the killer. Dakota and Daniel go to Norquist's house to go up against him whereas Dakota listens her twin talking to her.
Daniel takes off Aubrey within the car and strolls right in his house with a tire iron. Dakota has her dreams and goes to his house. She goes close the cellar but thumps a football down the stairwell which alerts him. She covers up within the corner whereas Douglas crests close the window but it turns out to him to be a possum chewing up a few parts. Dakota begins to inspect the house when the killer moves away. She gently makes her way down the murky and gloomy cellar, only to uncover a blue tinted glass carved knife with blood on it, which was used to stab and attack Daniel. Dakota leans out, as the killer attempts to attack her by sticking his arm through the cellar entryway. She then shuts the door frame on his arm and chops it off with a chunk of glass, prompting him to flee in misery. After the killer runs away, Dakota walks through his torture cellar, discovering prosthetic legs, weapons, and racks before colliding with a blood bucket from Daniel, who was stabbed to death moments earlier after having to go through the stairwell and dies from his stabbings when Dakota finds him covered in a plastic sheet on the same operating table Aubrey was tortured on. Norquist attacks Dakota from behind, and despite her attempts to slice off one of his hands, he manages to take off her prosthetic arm and tie her up. While Dakota is confined in his basement, Douglas returns upstairs soberly and plays his piano, only to be saddened by the fact that he can only play with one hand.
Norquist, enraged that Dakota severed his hand, boasted about subjecting Dakota to the same torture that Aubrey endured, but while he was upstairs, Dakota managed to escape herself by taking the glass bottle from the operating table and cutting the rope. The killer then strolls down to the cellar asking how Dakota escaped through the coffin thinking she is Aubrey, then tries stabbing her but Dakota manages to slip her bonds by tripping Norquist, resulting in a little knife fight that ends shortly when she jabs the blue bottle onto his gut then takes it out and sticks the bottle in his neck. Norquist afterwards dying from his wounds, takes one last stroll through the cellar and then falls with his mannequin legs to the floor ultimately dying leaving Dakota to be set free from danger. After killing Norquist, Dakota rushes to the nearby woods even though her leg battery ran out and goes to the spot where Norquist buried Aubrey. She then smashes open the glass coffin holding Aubrey (In the white dress), with her barely alive. Relieved, the long-lost twins lie together on the ground, looking out into the night.
Quotes[]
| “ | Aubrey: I'm sorry, Mr. Norquist. I know I should have this by now. Norquist: You've been distracted lately, Aubrey. The next Young Artist Competition is less than a month away. Aubrey: I know. I know. Norquist: Watch this hand. [Gives Aubrey a demonstration] You see how easy? Yeah. Aubrey: I've been meaning to talk to you. You know, I've been thinking, and... I just... I don't know if I'm cut out to play piano anymore. Norquist: Aubrey, all artists feel that way. It's normal. Aubrey: No, I... I want to quit. I mean, I barely made my winter admit to Yale, and I could still blow it. I just need to concentrate all of my efforts into writing. Norquist: But you have a gift, an innate talent. You won the Young Artist Competition. I mean, how much more validation do you need? Aubrey: That was a long time ago, Mr. Norquist. |
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| ~ Norquist as soon as he learns that Aubrey decides to quit piano |
Trivia[]
- Despite being the main villain, Norquist is only seen for the first five minutes of the movie, and then isn't seen again until an hour and twenty minutes later.
- While the exact details of Mr. Norquist's casting remain unknown, the film itself received mostly negative reviews, making it difficult to unearth behind-the-scenes information.
- Double Identity: Mr. Norquist hides behind his profession as a respected piano teacher, making his true sadistic nature a shocking reveal.
- Musical Macabre: The character's profession as a piano teacher could be seen as a dark twist on the idea of music being a source of beauty and serenity. Here, music is used as a potential tool for manipulation.
External Links[]
- Douglas Norquist on the Pure Evil Wiki