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| - Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother Susan, happily in love with a man known as David Harris. He seems like the perfect father and husband to everyone; except Michael, who suspects that he isn't quite the man he seems to be.
- Meanwhile, a woman named Susan Harding (Sela Ward) is shopping in a grocery store with her youngest children where she meets Grady, who introduces himself as David Harris (a man who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident) and after charming her, they're engaged to be married six months later. Susan's eldest son, Michael (Penn Badgley) who returns home from military school is wary of the situation. David invites Michael down to the basement where he has installed locked cabinets and tries to befriend him over tequila shots.
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| - Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother Susan, happily in love with a man known as David Harris. He seems like the perfect father and husband to everyone; except Michael, who suspects that he isn't quite the man he seems to be. Along with his girlfriend Kelly, his father Jay, and Susan's friends, they slowly start to piece together the mystery of the man who is set to become his stepfather, but they may be too late in getting to the truth. As people who realize of the inadequacies of David's story start mysteriously dying or disappear systematically, Michael is convinced his soon-to-be stepfather is behind them. After finding his father's body in the basement, Michael sets out to save his family and girlfriend before they become David's latest victims. In the end of their fight, David pulls Michael off the roof of their house and both are left unconscious. After being in a coma for a month Michael finds out from his girlfriend and his mom that David escaped when the police showed up. The scene switches to The Stepfather working in a different area with a different name and he ends up meeting another woman with children.
- Meanwhile, a woman named Susan Harding (Sela Ward) is shopping in a grocery store with her youngest children where she meets Grady, who introduces himself as David Harris (a man who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident) and after charming her, they're engaged to be married six months later. Susan's eldest son, Michael (Penn Badgley) who returns home from military school is wary of the situation. David invites Michael down to the basement where he has installed locked cabinets and tries to befriend him over tequila shots. Michael's suspicions start when David uses the wrong name when mentioning his deceased daughter. After Susan says that an elderly neighbor warned her that "America's Most Wanted" ran a profile on a serial killer that looked like David, David barges into the woman's house and throws her down her basement stairs, breaking her neck. Susan's ex-husband, Jay confronts David angrily about laying hands on his younger son, Sean after David grabbed him roughly for not turning down the volume on his video game and warns Susan that she doesn't know anything about David. The doubts about David raise more suspicion especially when David quits his job working as a real estate agent for Susan's sister, Jackie (Paige Turco) to avoid displaying a photo ID and other forms of identification. Later, Jay confronts David about an apparent lie regarding his college history and David clubs him with a vase & suffocates him with a plastic bag. He sends Michael a text with Jay's phone saying that David checked out okay. Two weeks later when the neighbor woman's body is discovered, David tells the family what happened. Michael is alarmed because he overheard David being told by the mailman, who gave less detail than David. While Michael's girlfriend, Kelly (Amber Heard)tries to get Michael to focus on college applications, he grows more obsessed with the contradictions in David's stories. Kelly tries to grab his attention by saying she is having sex with another guy, but Michael doesn't pay attention to her, so Kelly leaves the house. The situation comes to a head when David intercepts an email from Jackie about hiring an investigator. Then, David goes over to Jackie's house and drowns her in her pool. Determined to discover what was in the locked cabinets, Michael breaks into the basement as Kelly keeps a lookout. While the basement, Michael eventually discovers his dad's body in a freezer. David knocks Kelly out and traps Michael in the basement. The commotion awakens Susan and David starts berating her parenting skills, saying that he thought she could be "Mrs. Grady Edwards". On Susan's stunned reaction, David grimaces and asks, "Who am I here?" Susan flees to the bathroom and locks herself in, but David kicks the door in, shattering the mirror behind it. Susan picks up a shard of the glass mirror, holding it behind her. David grabs her and they struggle. Susan manages to stab David in the neck with the shard and he falls to the floor, apparently dead. Michael escapes from the basement and finds Kelly. They find Susan in the hallway across from the bathroom, thinking that David is dead, but David approaches from behind and blocks the stairs, chasing all three of them into the attic where he and Michael fight. David and Michael fall onto the roof and then off the edge of it landing to the ground, where they lie unconscious. When Michael wakes up, he finds out he had been in a coma for just over a month and learns that David is still alive, fleeing the scene before the police arrived. The end of the movie shows David (who has again changed his name to Chris Ames) working at a hardware store when he meets a woman (Jessalyn Gilsig) who was shopping with her two sons.
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