Brother's Keeper is a 2002 American crime drama television film directed by John Badham and written by Steven Baigelman and Glenn Gers.

The film stars Jeanne Tripplehorn as a former police investigator drawn to a series of serial killings in Portland, Oregon that may have been committed by her disturbed younger brother, played by Corin Nemec.

Brother's Keeper was produced by Trilogy Entertainment Group and New Line Television and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

[1] Highly intelligent, mentally disturbed career criminal Ellis Pond escapes from prison, runs through a forest, and successfully evades his pursuers.

A burnt-out, depressed alcoholic, she is estranged from her husband Adam and young daughter Marcie, and tormented by nightmares of the event that got her removed from the force four years earlier: Her manhunt in Maris Creek for child molester and suspected serial killer Victor Orbin led to a SWAT team gunning down an innocent man working at the site.

Ellis reappears in Portland, strangling and castrating Internal Affairs investigator Fred Tierney, who was responsible for Lucinda's removal.

He asks Lucinda to return to the force to head the case and track down Orbin for good, but she refuses, rattled when learning of Ellis's escape.

As the team converges on the park, they learn that the skeleton is Victor Orbin's, and he was dead before the events at Maris Creek, having in fact been previously buried there.