Nicholas Gonzalez

Samar, a 2nd-year medical student, wonders if the soul has weight. He asks his professor for permission to conduct an experiment to measure it, but his professor refuses, citing it as inhuman and against the law.

The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival. In BENEATH US, the American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple (played by Lynn Collins and James Tupper). What they hope to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival at the couple's secluded mansion, and those thought to be helpless must prove they can't be discarded so easily.

Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) is a former Los Angeles gang member who has transitioned into law enforcement. Sancho, however, who is surrounded by corruption, finds that life as a police officer is just as morally bankrupt as life as a gangster. Salim Adel is Sancho's partner. One night, Sancho and Salim were planting evidence and stealing drugs from a drug bust, when they were seen by an old man. Salim asks the old man to retreat, but perhaps he was hard of hearing and stood his ground. Salim shoots the old man in the head after repeating the warning a few times. After being implicated in the shooting of an innocent man himself, Sancho is pressured (by IA officer Bryant (Judy Reyes)) to testify against his loose-cannon friend and partner, Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who has a history of abusing citizens. Sancho lives with his sick and wheelchair bound mother (Soledad St. Hilaire) and believes that some lines of decency should not be crossed. And yet, he also does not want to be a rat. Sancho picks up Salim at 8 AM from his house where he stays with his girlfriend, and his son Elijah (Dax Ramgoolam). Salim and Sancho have been called in to testify in front of Internal Affairs at 6 PM that day. On their patrol, they reach downtown at 8:34 AM. They find a couple in a car who are lost, and Sancho tries to help them. The couple cannot understand Sancho's accent, and this angers Salim. He arrests the husband and proceeds to sexually harass the wife in front of her husband. Salim steals the couple's PDA, before Sancho intervenes and allows them to leave. They then drive into Police HQ for a daily briefing from Captain Spain (Keith David). Spain declares war on the drug cartels in the city and wants his cops to remind the people that there is war going on in the streets. Spain meets Sancho and Salim separately say that police tactics are working as crime is going down in the city. He wants the cops to stick together and stop anyone from outside interfering in how they do things. Indirectly, Spain asks Sancho and Salim to lie to IA. Meanwhile, Spain is in touch with a kingpin to supply drugs to him. At a local bar at 9:42 AM, the Lieutenant (Cole Hauser) approaches Sancho and Salim and says that they have an opportunity. Lieutenant says that Brax (Wood Harris) is Damian Baine's (Wyclef Jean) right hand man. Damian owns every nightclub in town. Lieutenant tells Sancho and Salim to deliver 13 Kilos of drugs from the evidence locker to Damian at his Mexican nightclub. Sancho doesn't like the deal and feels there something is off. They pick the drugs from the evidence locker at 10:19 AM, by using a fake requisition slip from a judge requesting to produce the evidence in court. They meet Brax at a Taco Pup at 10:47 AM, who asks them to bring the drugs to Baine's club. Sancho tells Salim that if Baine kills them both, IA will never know that the incident with the dead old man was set up by the Lieutenant. Salim feels Sancho is getting paranoid, but Sancho is adamant that they will keep the drugs in the car when they meet Baine. At 11:13 AM, they reach Baine's club. Despite the warning, Salim takes the drugs into Baine's club. Baine says that Canadian gang Hells Angels have set up shop at the beach and are buying drugs from anyone willing to sell. They want to jack up prices by having a monopoly and driving all other suppliers out of business. Baine wants Salim and Sancho to use the 13 Kilos of drugs to lure the Hells Angels and steal the money and their drugs. The police get one third of the entire loot. Salim convinces Sancho that this is the mother-lode, and they won't have to do small gigs if they manage to pull this heist off. They reach the beach at 1:43 PM. They pick up drug sellers Rita (Aimee Garcia) and Splooge (Khleo Thomas) on the beach. When Sancho roughs up Splooge, Rita spits on Salim, leading him to sexually harass Rita in front of Splooge. As Splooge is taken away, Rita vows to kill Salim. Turns out Splooge is Salim's informant, and they staged the whole arrest to make it look genuine. They reach the Canadian Beach Bungalow at 3:17 PM. Splooge goes in first and distracts the Hells Angels and the cops follow in a few minutes later. Sancho is stunned to find one of the Hells Angels to be his family member, who says that the entire money belongs to Roland (Robert LaSardo). As Sancho is distracted, Splooge runs away with the drugs and Salim is shot. As Sancho pursues the shooter, Salim finds the money bag and hides it. Sancho puts Salim in the squad car and drives him away. Brax and his entourage enter the house but find no drugs or money. Sancho finds Splooge at the beach and pursues him, leaving Salim in the squad car. Splooge escapes and Sancho takes Salim to a safe-house at 5:09 PM. Turns out the whole deal was set up Lieutenant to get rid of Salim and Sancho. Salim and Sancho would attack Hells Angels to steal money and the drugs. Brax would kill them while they are in the house, and it would like Hells Angels killed the 2 dirty cops who were selling evidence from the police locker. Sancho suspected Salim, but Salim convinces him that they are both partners and in this together. The drugs hidden by Splooge are found by kids, who overdose on it. Officer Rodriguez (Nick Gonzalez) attacks the safe-house but is captured. He confirms that Lieutenant is behind the setup and the drugs were payment for their murder. Baine was supposed to kill them at the Taco Pup, but he got greedy and thought he could get both the drugs and the money and get rid of his competition by getting the police to eliminate Canadian Hells Angels. Salim realizes that Sancho was going to tell the truth to the IA and the department knew about this, and hence Lieutenant made this plan up. Salim and Sancho surrender to Roland. Roland wants his money back, but Sancho didn't know that Salim had hidden the money. It is revealed that Salim never killed the old man and had stepped away. It was Sancho who thought that the old man was reaching for his gun and shot him. Roland wants Sancho to shoot Salim, but Sancho prefers to shoot himself. Seeing this, Salim reveals that he knows the location of the money. Roland shoots Sancho regardless for going against his first family. Salim manages to escape when police are already at the spot where he hid the money. He returns the drugs recovered to the evidence locker. The drugs are destroyed as they were mixed with heavy duty rat poison. Lieutenant tells Salim that Sancho killed his girlfriend. Spain and Lieutenant indicate that they are holding Elijah hostage till Salim implicates Sancho in the day's events. As Salim exits the HQ, he is assassinated by Roland's men.

A group of scientists set out an expedition to Borneo to look for the Blood Orchid, a flower which could grant longer life. But the Blood Orchid was gaurded by an anaconda, and they all end up running from the snakes and each other.