Directed by Jim Mickle and written by Gregory Weidman and Geoff Tock, it stars Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael C. Hall.

Naveen Rao, a physicist, insists this is proof of time travel enabled by a lunar epiphany every nine years, but Maddox and Lockhart ignore him.

In 2006, Lockhart is now an alcoholic, disturbed private investigator obsessed with solving the case, which he now believes involves time travel and Dr. Rao, who has disappeared.

Lockhart steals Holt's badge, uses it to impersonate a police officer, and tracks down the former girlfriend of the white nationalist leader, who was even more extremist, arriving at her home to find she has been murdered by the suspect, who is still in the house.

Lockhart chases the suspect and wounds her hand with a bullet, follows her to the beach where the plane had crashed and into a sewage hole, where he sees her disappear in what is construed to be a time machine.

We then learn that many years later, Lockhart convinced an adult Rya to take the mission after the militia group's terrorism triggered a new civil war in 2024, when she was only nine.

Rya is traveling backwards in time, appearing every nine years in reverse chronological order in phase with lunar epiphanies, injecting her targets in the back of the neck with a remotely triggered isotope.

[3] Speaking about the project, director Mickle declared: “Gregory [Weidman] and Geoff’s [Tock] script is such a great mind bender and beautifully weaves together all my favorite genres, Boyd [Holbrook] is going to eat this role alive and show why he’s one of the best young actors working today.

Any studio that makes Okja has a permanent place in my heart.”[4]Principal production commenced on July 2, 2018 and ended on August 27, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The website's consensus reads: "In the Shadow of the Moon isn't always successful at balancing its assorted elements, but its struggles may be diverting enough to warrant a stream.