Over the next year, Allen receives multiple facial reconstructive surgeries and attempts to remember his past with the help of Chris Graham, a nurse who treated him.

His old colleague, Phil Murphy, informs him that their precinct has received a tip for the murders in the form of a newspaper article featuring the Devlins.

Davey tracks down Theo Grant, who lent the vehicle that Allen and the hitchhiker were using at the time of the crash.

Steiner deduces that this attack is related to similar ones that happened in Ohio that suddenly stopped when the Vincent murders occurred.

He suspects that Vincent was responsible for these attacks that eventually culminated in him murdering his family after he discovered Lucy was having an affair.

That night, Davey is found murdered, and Patterson, believing Steiner may be right, calls for a search of the Devlin home.

Steiner, meanwhile, hears a birthday announcement for the Devlin child on the radio and, on a hunch, makes his way to their home.

While John J. O'Connor of the New York Times opined that Blackout was "never entirely convincing" and not even remotely memorable, he still admitted that it did manage "to build up a steady stream of scary suspense" and attain "maximum mileage" out of its "top-flight cast.

"[1] A score of 2/5 was awarded by Joanna Berry of the Radio Times, who wrote that the film was an "average thriller" with "no real surprises in store for the detective or for the audience.

[3] Horror News's Todd Martin was also frustrated and disappointed by Blackout's "bland and vanilla" conclusion, expressing the view that it and the director's apparent aversion to taking risks turned what could have been "a brilliant film" into "an overall fumble.

[6] Like a character in the film, Sherman killed his wife and used an air conditioner to try to slow decomposition of her remains in an attempt to establish an alibi.