The Plot

PLOT SUMMARY

Lexibaby tells the story of humanity’s propensity for violence and the way that bad energy can be passed on from one person to the next. It shows how violence can mutate and multiply until the point where it can become deadly. It also shows how innocent people can be sucked into a negative chain of events entirely by chance.

The story opens showing the character, Johnny, who’s sitting dead in a chair, after having been shot.

Then the time sequence moves back a few days before Johnny’s death. He’s at dinner with his long time girlfriend, Alexandra (Lexibaby), and is shocked when Lexi unexpectedly breaks up with him. Johnny takes the break up very hard and begins to get angry. Alexandra leaves the table and exits the restaurant to avoid making a scene. Johnny tries to chase her down in his car, but is cut off by another driver. The driver’s name is Wayne. Unable to catch up to Lexi, Johnny is fueled with road rage and rides closely behind Wayne’s vehicle. Wayne taps his breaks to signal Johnny to back off, which causes Johnny to slam into the back of Wayne’s car. Wayne pulls off to the side of the road and Johnny follows him. Before Wayne can open the door to his car, Johnny has already gotten out of his and is walking steadily towards Wayne. Wayne rolls down his window and Johnny grabs him, pulls him out of his car and begins to beat him in a violent rage. After being beaten severely, Wayne climbs, barely conscious, back into his vehicle and attempts to drive to the nearest rest stop for help. He arrives at a gas station several miles down the road and collapses as he walks through the door. The attendant calls 911 and paramedics arrive.

One of the EMT’s who arrives is the next character in the chain of events. His name is Rex. Rex is having trouble battling drug addiction and has some tension with his wife. While loading Wayne into the ambulance, Rex is particularly troubled by the site of Wayne’s battered body. After arriving home later that night Rex continues to be troubled by the situation with Wayne earlier that day. Later on things only get worse when his wife arrives home and immediately sparks an argument with him. The argument elevates to the point where Rex’s wife tells him to get out of the house, and says that he is worthless. Rex walks several miles down the road to his ex-girlfriend Emma’s house, hoping to find comfort in her company. They talk for while and Rex begins to grow emotional about his life and how things were better before they had broken up. Emma puts her arm around Rex to comfort him and with out thinking, Rex kisses her on the lips. Emma kisses him back and the situation continues to escalate until Emma’s husband, Kurt, suddenly and unexpectedly arrives home early. Startled, Rex quickly runs into the bathroom to hide. Kurt notices something is wrong by the way Emma is acting. He looks around the house and finds Rex hiding in the shower. In his anger, he unintentionally beats Rex to death.

Kurt drags Rex’s body into the back seat of his SUV and forces Emma to get in with him. Kurt heads to a place he knows outside of town in the country to dispose of the body. By this time Rex’s wife has become worried about where he is and goes looking for him. She heads to Emma’s house, suspecting Rex has been secretly visiting her. When she arrives, she finds blood on the floors and immediately calls the police.

Before Kurt and Emma can return home, Kurt is alerted by a friend that the police are at his house. Instead of going home, they go hide out at a friend’s apartment. When they arrive, they find that their friend is not home, and in a panic Kurt attempts to quickly remove the screen to break into the apartment window. An older lady next door sees Kurt at the window and calls the police. Kurt finally gets the door open, and he and Emma enter the apartment unaware that the police are on the way for a reported break in. They lock the door, turn off the lights and sit down at the kitchen table. Minutes later an officer knocks at the door. Kurt hysterically cocks his loaded gun and points it to the door. “This is the end,” he whispers to Emma, “It’s all over now.” He starts to ridicule and blame her for ruining their lives by cheating on him. The tension builds as the officer begins to bang on the door, shining a flash light in the window. “That’s it I’m doing it,” Kurt screams. Emma lunges at Kurt, grabbing his arm and slamming it down on the kitchen table. The gun discharges, firing through the apartment wall and into the apartment next door, hitting the original character, Johnny, from the opening scene.

In the end the violence that Johnny started comes back to him and he receives justice. He harms an innocent man in frustration and the ramifications of that action are severe. If he had just walked away, he wouldn’t have died.

The film suggests that there is some cosmic justice in the world, and that people who do wrong to others get what they deserve in the end. While this is not always the case, the story allows for satisfaction in the fact that sometimes. . .

“what goes around. . . does. . . come around.”

- Josh & Jon Petro