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Wikipedia article
'I Came By' is a 2022 British crime thriller film written, co-produced and directed by British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari. The film stars George MacKay, Percelle Ascott, Kelly Macdonald, and Hugh Bonneville.
'I Came By' was released in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2022, before its streaming release on 31 August 2022, by Netflix.
Plot
Toby Nealey is a politically-minded, 23-year-old graffiti artist who breaks into the homes of upper-class individuals and leaves behind the message "I Came By" on the walls. His latest target is retired judge Hector Blake. Despite appearing socially progressive in public, Toby believes the judge is a hypocrite. When Toby enters Blakes house, he discovers a pottery studio and an imprisoned man in the basement.
Toby tries to tell his friend and former accomplice, Jay, about what he found. However, Jay's distracted by personal troubles with his pregnant girlfriend, Naz. Toby anonymously calls the police, but they find nothing in Blake's house and leave.
Lizzie, Toby's widowed mother, has grown increasingly worried about her son's lack of direction. When she and Toby get into a shouting match, she throws him out of the house. Toby returns to Blake's residence to free the prisoner, but Blake murders Toby with a cricket bat. He then uses the kiln in his studio to cremate Toby's body, and flushes the ashes down the toilet.
In Toby's room, Lizzie finds a letter to Birlstone School alumni, which he took from Blake's house. The letter spurs the police to visit Blake's home again and they find the basement prison, which he claims is a panic room. Blake is arrested for obstructing the investigation, but uses his connections to quickly get released.
Lizzie begins following Blake. She witnesses him bring a man to his house: Omid, an Iranian asylum seeker. Blake has offered to help him get permanent residency in the UK. Blake recalls how his cruel father took an Indo-Persian man as a lover, and this led to Blake's distraught mother's suicide. The teenage Blake eventually assaulted and nearly killed his fathers lover. Despite being drugged, Omid manages to escape. However, he wont go to the police due to his precarious residential status. The next day, Blake threatens Omid with deportation, allowing him to imprison and murder Omid.
Increasingly desperate, Lizzie asks Jay to help her break into Blake's house. Jay refuses because he's a black man with prior charges, and is responsible for his new-born son. Lizzie enters Blake's house alone, only to be caught, murdered, and cremated. When Jay goes looking Lizzie, he realizes shes dead and blames himself.
Jay and Naz's relationship falls apart due to his lack of communication. Sometime later, Naz informs Jay that Blake is going to attend the Birlstone School's tercentenary (300th) anniversary celebration.
After Blake leaves the event, Jay follows him to a country estate. Jay fights and subdues Blake. Jay then goes to the pottery studio in the estates garage and finds a prisoner: the same man that Toby originally discovered (the same man????). Jay calls the police, frees the prisoner, and flees the scene. The police arrive and find Blake bloodied and restrained in the house. On the wall, Jay has left behind graffiti reading "I Came By."
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