Trap (2024)

Cooper Abbott, a firefighter and loving family man, takes his teenage daughter Riley to a concert by her favorite pop star, Lady Raven, as a reward for good grades. At the arena, Cooper notices an unusually large number of police. A friendly concession worker, Jamie, tells him the FBI has set up the whole event as a trap to catch "the Butcher", a serial killer who is believed to be attending.

Cooper is the Butcher. During the show, he secretly checks on a live camera feed on his phone, where a young man named Spencer is being held captive in an empty house. He steals Jamie's ID and a police radio to get into restricted areas, and listens in on the FBI profiler leading the hunt, Dr. Josephine Grant. Every exit is guarded, and Cooper starts to look for another way out.

He causes a diversion with an explosion in a kitchen, and gets to the roof, but finds no way out. Believing the backstage exit is unguarded, he lies to Lady Raven's uncle that Riley has been sick with leukemia, so that Riley is picked to dance on stage with Lady Raven. After the show, they are taken backstage, but police are waiting there too.

Cooper secretly tells Lady Raven who he is, and threatens to have Spencer killed unless she helps him. She agrees to drive him and Riley away in her limousine, but insists on going to his house, where she stalls for time. She grabs his phone, finds where Spencer is held, and shares it in a livestream to her millions of fans, who find and rescue him. She also tells Cooper's wife, Rachel, the truth.

As police surround the house, Cooper escapes through a tunnel, disguises himself as a SWAT officer, and drives off with Lady Raven. She opens a window and calls her fans to surround the car, and Cooper escapes on foot. He goes back home to confront Rachel, who admits that she had suspected him. She was the one who planted a ticket receipt that led the police to the concert in the first place.

Cooper plans to kill Rachel and himself. But Rachel convinces him to eat a piece of pie she made, which she has secretly mixed with pills from his own tool bag. As the drugs take hold, Cooper hallucinates his mother, who tells him she is proud of him for finally feeling something real. Dr. Grant and the SWAT team arrive and arrest him.

Before he is taken away, Cooper fixes Riley's bike and secretly slips a spoke from its wheel into his pocket. He shares a tearful hug with Riley. In the back of the police van, he uses the spoke to unlock his handcuffs and laughs to himself. The final scene suggests that the Butcher may not stay caught for long, and leaves the door open for him to strike again.