Directed by Alexandra Carriere, the latest Lifetime thriller, “A Chef’s Deadly Revenge,” revolves around the life of Lucy Gerhard, who has recently opened her restaurant. Lucy is a great chef, but her life takes a swift turn when she is constantly stalked by someone. Things start to escalate toward the worst very fast as lives are lost, and Lucy becomes a victim. Starring Kathryn Kohut and Tomas Chovanec, along with Chelsea Muirhead, “A Chef’s Deadly Revenge” is based on actual events and is an average thriller compared to the other thrillers that Lifetime has recently produced.
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A Chef’s Deadly Revenge (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:
The film starts with a woman running away in her car from another car and ending up in the back of the alley. The woman enters a building through the back door, and the man follows her. Then we move back two weeks, and we see the same woman, named Lucy, preparing herself in the kitchen as it is the first day in her new restaurant. When the shift is almost over, a waiter gives Lucy an origami, and inside, there is the staff office key.
When Lucy enters the office, she finds a couple of her private pictures and her mother’s watch. Lucy is confused, knowing that someone is stalking her and even possesses some of her things, like her mother’s watch. Lucy shares this with her colleague and best friend Megan, who tells her to file a police complaint. Megan reminds Lucy not to overthink because she has just come out of a toxic relationship with Ayden.
What does Lucy learn about her Stalker?
One morning, before starting cooking, Lucy goes out for a walk in a nearby park. There, she meets with Frank. He talks with her in a strange manner, saying that she should head to the restaurant since it is almost lunchtime. Lucy starts to believe that Frank is the guy who has been stalking her for the last couple of days. She even sees the same car that’s been stalking her movements outside her house regularly at night. So, she asks the security company to install the security system both at her house and the restaurant.
One day, while entering the restaurant from the backdoor, Lucy finds a dismantled mannequin in the garbage with a threatening text written on a piece of paper. This leads Lucy to believe that the stalker is hinting that Lucy’s condition will be the same as the mannequin. Now, she goes to the police to file an official complaint. However, just like another stalking case, the detectives do not seem to bother much other than conduct a routine investigation. So, Lucy decides that she will deal with the stalker all by herself.
What does Lucy learn about the Stalker?
Since Lucy is doubting Frank already as the stalker, one evening, she follows him from the park to his home and finds that Frank lives with his wife. With the help of the internet, Lucy reaches Frank’s wife, Emily’s antique store and there she talks with her in a friendly manner. Lucy learns that the place she has bought to open her restaurant actually belonged to Frank. Frank himself used to be a chef. However, due to financial pressure and since the landlord had increased the rent, he had to sell the place.
Lucy now understands that Frank actually has a motive to stalk her and do something bad to her. So, she starts playing dirty as well instead of holding herself back from doing anything. Lucy first warns Frank by delivering a fish at his door that she is not leaving the place. Then, she introduces herself as a guest who is having dinner at his house. Frank is surprised to see her. In fact, it’s not difficult for a woman to bond with another woman without wasting much time.
Why does Emily leave Frank?
Lucy becomes a very good friend of Emily and she invites her for dinner. When Frank sees her enjoying dinner with his wife and her friends, he is amazed to see the courage that Lucy carries with her. Later that night, Lucy sees someone is inside her property and she locks herself so that no one can enter her room. Lucy has had enough of these games, and she confronts Emily, saying everything about Frank. Emily does not believe her at first. But later, when she checks Frank’s phone, she finds lots of Lucy’s pictures in it.
Emily leaves Frank for good, saying that he needs to move on from the fact that he does not own the restaurant anymore and let go of Lucy as well. Lucy overhears everything from afar. When Frank sees her, he goes to confront her, but Lucy is gone by that time. Frank is now fuming with rage, as he thinks that, besides taking the restaurant from him, Lucy has destroyed his family as well. Now, he only seeks to destroy her completely.
A Chef’s Deadly Revenge (2024) Movie Ending Explained:
Is Lucy Able to Get Rid of Frank?
A food critic visits Lucy’s restaurant, and it is a big day for her as his review will mean a lot for her restaurant’s reputation. However, Lucy suddenly sees Ayden inside the restaurant, so she goes to confront him. Ayden says that he does not know that Lucy is the restaurant’s owner as he received an invitation via email. Lucy asks him to leave immediately, and chaos erupts in front of the critic. However, Megan controls the situation, and even she is fed up with Lucy.
The next day, Ayden is found dead. A knife with Lucy’s name engraved on it is recovered as the murder weapon. Lucy becomes a prime suspect, and she is so occupied with thinking about how to put an end to this Frank issue that she forgets about Megan’s operation. One day, when Megan unknowingly leaves the backdoor open, Frank attacks her and renders her unconscious. When Lucy comes to the scene, Megan confronts her, saying that she has had enough of this and she wants Lucy to stop this Frank thing or else it will not end well for them.
Lucy thinks of one solution, and she is confident that this will put an end to everything. She waits for Frank’s car to come that night outside her house, and then she brings her car. After a while, they end up inside the restaurant, where Frank confesses that he has killed Ayden so that Lucy can become a suspect. Lucy somehow manages to put Frank inside the refrigerator and calls 911. The detective arrests Frank for murdering Ayden and attempting to kill Lucy.
At the end of the film, we see Emily visit the restaurant, and Lucy serves her the signature dish. Emily shows her appreciation to Lucy. Lucy shares a smile as, in the end, everything is sorted on its own after her heroic efforts to put Frank behind bars. She perhaps recorded Frank’s confession, which is not clearly shown in the film. But the CCTV footage is enough to prove that Frank is trespassing inside the restaurant to kill Lucy. Things with Megan have also sorted as together they start running the restaurant more peacefully than ever.
