OCTOBER 1

                                                                      OCTOBER 1
The film opens with pictures of a younger female being raped via a apparently unknown man. Inspector Danladi Waziri (Sadiq Daba) is summoned through the British colonial navy to give a draft of his findings at the collection of virgin killings that has took place in Akote. The movie flashes returned, as Inspector Waziri narrates his tale on his observations and enjoy from his arrival in the city of Akote; he is warmly received by Sergeant Afonja (Kayode Aderupoko). On arriving the village square, Danladi notices the villagers celebrating a horse-rider, who's later noted by using Afonja to be Prince Aderopo (Demola Adedoyin). He simply returned from the town, as the first university graduate in the network. Danladi observes bodily and circumstantial similarities in the deceased virgins, and deduces it should be serial killing. Danladi and Afonja maintain in their investigations; the officers interrogate Agbekoya (Kunle Afolayan), who's the owner of the farm where the final lady changed into killed. Agbekoya denies any expertise of the occasions that caused the killings and is ultimately freed by using the inspector Waziri because of a perceived language barrier between them. After being advised through the Oba about his overdue night movements, Prince Aderopo visits the village bar, in which he meets his adolescence buddies, Banji (Femi Adebayo) and Tawa (Kehinde Bankole); the trio talk the coming independence and their pasts. one of the guards assigned to shield the prince deserts his submit to spend some time together with his lover, near a flow. Afonja and Danladi query the conventional priest, Baba Ifa (Ifayemi Elebuibon) on their way out of the bar; he responds to their questions proverbially and says that the killer will retain to kill until he's happy. the following day, the lifeless body of the lover of the protect who fled his put up is found. Danladi orders the arrest of Baba Ifa, which Afonja outrightly refuses to perform; he's hence suspended from his process and changed by using his deputy, Corporal Omolodun (Fabian Adeoye Lojede). Corporal Omolodun, but, is ultimately killed with the aid of the serial killer after trailing him alongside the bush-path, following the invention of another body, this time of an Igbo girl. The female's father, a farmer Okafor (Kanayo O. Kanayo), alongside together with his tribesmen, seize a traveling Northerner, claiming that he's chargeable for the dying of his daughter. The accused man is taken into custody by way of the police, but still continues his innocence. Danladi informs his superiors that he might be closing the case, in view that he has discovered the killer. As he is set to switch the Northerner away from Akote, Okafor throws a machete at him, piercing his coronary heart. Even along with his demise breath, the person insists he did not kill the lady. Okafor, who again and again affirms his movements as doing what a real man would do, is taken into custody. At night, the officials accumulate to have fun the Inspector's approaching departure following the presumed victory over the killer. Dandali is persuaded into consuming towards his will. On his manner out he hears someone whistle a track he changed into earlier told through the Northerner to be from the killer. The killer strategies him but he's too drunk to pick out the face, and is assaulted by means of the killer. Afonja sees him lying on the street and takes him to his residence. Afonja and his spouse gave him herbs for relief of his regular catarrh. at some stage in the system of his healing from his fever, he remembers the face of the killer. the subsequent morning, he is going to the market square to observe the frame language of Prince Aderopo, who suspiciously stares at him in self assurance and even winks at him that there may be no proof to prove he indeed killed the women. Danladi visits Tawa within the faculty she works as a trainer, if you want to query her about the relationship she has with the Prince. Danladi discovers that Aderopo and Agbekoya are both recipients of a scholarship from a Reverend Father within the city, Father Dowling (Colin David Reese). Danladi visits Agbekoya, who well-knownshows to him that they have been continuously molested by means of the Reverend Father in Lagos metropolis. At a party at the eve of Independence, Prince Aderopo invitations Tawa to their formative years hideout, which has been renovated. Danladi and Afonja try and trail them, however are unsuccessful; Agbekoya, the best other person who knows the vicinity of the hideout, leads them to it. On getting there, Aderopo is about to make Tawa his sixth victim, representing the stop of the six years of violation he acquired from the Reverend Father. Tawa is stored. The movie shifts returned to the modern-day, as Danladi concludes his account to the British officials. The officers are in opposition to his choice to speak the fact at the identity of the actual killer and that they teach him not to inform every body about it. He reluctantly succumbs to the pressure for the sake of a peaceful independence.