"The pain you feel in your ankle, in your soul, you made this." "You are a prisoner to yourself, not me." "You don't love yourself." "I love you." "My love... shall set you free." "Howard, I really believe you're in over your head." "Your GPA's too borderline." "Your verbal SATs are above, but your math is below." "You participate in activities, but it's auto club and baseball." "If what you're saying is the betting line is to pick 'em, then yeah, I'll place that bet." "Cos I think I can get accepted to Stanford, and once I get in, I know I'll do great." "I mean, yeah, I could fail, I guess." "I don't know." "Landon, what should I do?" "What would you do?" "You got nothing to lose except the $50 application fee." "And anyway..." "And what would you know about application fees, Landon?" "They don't charge anything to apply for ajob at the Quickie Lube." "This isn't about me." "It's about Howard's life." " I don't want him to be disappointed." " You're holding him down." "A setback early in life is hard to overcome for someone like Howard." " Leave your own life out of Howard's." " How dare you?" "What do you know about life?" "I know that sometimes you need others to help you." "There's a system to this life that you'll never be a part of, that doesn't want you." "Are you too incapable of comprehending anything but your own failure?" "Hey!" "Idiot!" "You didn't mess it up too bad." "I think I have some tape in this drawer." "What's the point?" "She says I can't get in." "She ought to know." "She's a guidance counsellor." "It's herjob." "I'm nothin'!" "You're not a nothin'." "You can't let someone else control your life." "Especially Roe the Ho." "Look." "You fill this out, you get Coach Edwards to give you a letter of recommendation, and you go to Stanford." "You get tons of safe, protected trim for four years." "Come out an engineer." "Design some buildings and stuff." "Then me and some construction guys will build 'em for ya." "So shut up." "Landon, it should be the other way around." "I got the grades, but you got the heart." "Is that your dad?" "He wasn't supposed to be home till 11." "I'll go see if he has any tape." "Millennium Group autopsy, 23rd April 1998, 11.25am." "Group pathologist, Stuart Sheslow." "Subject of autopsy:" "Howard Gordon." "Age 18, height 5'9", weight 175." "No prior indication of any health problems." "County Medical Examiner Dr Stanley indicates cause of death as heart failure." "Heart failure!" "He's an 18-year-old." "Didn't smoke." "He was a catcher, all-county." " Between us, Frank..." " What?" "I think the medical examiner took a flop cos he's never seen anything like this before." " What about the search for the friend?" " Landon Bryce?" "Nothing." "Kid's gone Elvis." "If Gordon had died of natural causes or an accident," "I would've expected Landon to call for help." " When was the last time he was seen?" " About 3.30 yesterday." "He and Gordon were arguing with a guidance counsellor at Polk." " Arguing?" " Landon was sticking up for Howard." " They'd been friends since Little League." " Landon had to have been with Gordon." "Waylan Bryce, the missing kid's dad, worked late, came home, found Gordon's body." " ME's finding is in the ballpark." " Box seats or upper deck?" "Gordon did suffer a myocardial infarction." "But, simultaneously, there is substantial evidence of extreme neurological trauma." "Ordinarily I'd say it was a vasovagal reaction." "An ordinary reaction would be dizziness." " At worst, fainting." " Right." "This kid... basically internally exploded." " From what?" " Fear." "He died of fright." "Good afternoon, ma'am." "Any fruits or vegetables?" "Thank you." "Welcome to Oregon." "I know I'm supposed to just let you guys do yourjob, but..." "I just..." "Need an answer." "I'm sorry." "I don't have any." "I'm just sitting here trying to get a feel for your son." "Get into the mind of... the killer?" "Do you think that's the kind of mind your son has?" "It's..." "Look..." "It is almost impossible for a parent to think something like that." "But... no." "No, Landon has an interesting mind." "He has a strong spirit." "But it's not criminal." "It's not even mean." "You say Landon has an interesting mind." "In what way?" "Just look at these books." "Nabokov and Eco." "He gives 'em to me to read." "I can't get through 'em." "Don't know why his grades aren't better." "Mrs Bryce." "Does she have an interesting mind too?" "Smartest thing she ever did was leave me." "You think he left to be with her?" "Landon... chose to live with me." "Somehow, Landon knew I..." "I couldn't live without him." "He knew his mother could." "He'd have a nice life with her, comfortable, and he came here." "Gotta gripe?" "It upsets me when you make him have to do that." "I love you." "So please... be good." " Got something?" " Calling my daughter." "Not at home." "Crime-scene team's been all over this room." "No prints, no fibres." "I've never called from a crime scene before." "I found tyre marks outside from a pre-radial vehicle." "I believe someone was here." "Who was in this room that made you call your daughter?" "Not a "who"." "Lucy Butler." "Landon." "Your favourite." "Apple cinnamon pancakes." "Just like home." "Landon, you'll never hear your name again." "Frank, it's a leap to Lucy Butler." "None of her murders were strangers." "Even the judge, who'd sentenced her husband." "She killed Bob Bletcher in my own house." "She has no history of involvement with abduction." "There's no evidence of her at Gordon's murder." "I felt her presence." "Chromosome staining on the hair root have determined the subject to be male." "After her release on suspicion of Bletcher's murder, the Group maintained surveillance on Lucy Butler." "She settled into a farmhouse in Waconda." "She only left the house to get supplies." "No visitors, no phone calls." "Not even any Internet activity." "The only mail sent to her were Bibles and religious texts." "She's selling the idea that the devil is born again." "For nine months reports were maintained weekly, but she was downgraded." "Since then, the member on the case, Olson, has filed reports electronically once a month." "Frank, the evidence - the hair you found at Bryce's, the motive, these reports   doesn't point to Lucy Butler." " No." "It doesn't." " But you're still going to her place?" " She killed Bob Bletcher." "She took the boy, Landon Bryce." "Of course I'm going out there." "Oh, my God!" "At least Noriega got Van Halen." "Is there any way to turn that music off?" "So, what is this?" "What do they do to you here?" "Hello?" "Why are we here?" "There's other people here, though, right?" "I heard 'em." "Been here a while, huh?" "Look, just tell me one thing." "How freaked out should I be?" "Why would I want to turn off the music?" "I love this music." "Olson was supposed to contact us." "I don't think we should wait." "Give her chance to spot us." "I think we'd better get in there, or she'll kill Landon." "My name's Landon Bryce." "What's yours?" "You know, if you're not gonna talk..." "I think I'm just gonna call you Ben." "Ben Gump." "You tried to get out of here, Ben?" "They do that to you?" "No." "I did it to myself." "There is only one of them." "Hey, don't do that." "There's no way out." "She'll only come in here and love you." "And you don't want that." "Just sit down, mark your time." "We can't beat her." "Say my name." "Go ahead." "Say my name." "Landon..." "Bryce." "There." "We just beat her." "Landon!" "Landon Bryce!" "Where's that coming from?" "Activated by motion sensors." "Give me that, please." "Olson." "You just don't have the ability, practically or within you, to escape me." "No one does." "I'm the only one who understands you." "I'm the only one who has ever loved you." "And if you even try to leave me... he will kill you." "Hello, Anne." "Can I talk to Jordan?" "Yeah." "No, I've been trying to call her." "When she and Catherine get back, would you have her call me?" "Thank you." "Lucy Butler gained access to Olson's Millennium Group files." "Possibly tortured him to record his voice-activated code." "She's been submitting her own surveillance reports for six months." "It's hard not seeing your daughter every day." "I couldn't do it." "I can't imagine being Waylan Bryce." "His son disappears." "Maybe he's a murderer." "Maybe abducted." "A father left with a life of nothing but "as ifs", "if onlys" and..." "Landon appears to have been an average student, average grades." "No juvenile record." "Didn't even bother with the SATs." "Yet he was voted most likely to succeed." "Maybe his peers know something his teachers don't." "A lot of great men were considered to have no potential." "Einstein was thought a washout." "Washington's faulty leadership led to the French-Indian war." "Lincoln was considered a clown." "Did you read Geib's report on the murder?" "What was this argument with the guidance counsellor about?" "Love is blue." "Not white or red or yellow." "Love is not green." "It's blue." "That... is the brilliance of this music." "When I touch you, what colour do you feel?" "Blue." "It makes me so mad when people call this elevator music." "See, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, they could never compose this music." "Here with me, you've already come to know what only the truly gifted can understand." "You've felt it." "Blue." "Landon Bryce is the kind of student that makes my job such a challenge." "He was a classic underachiever." "Bright, intelligent, but an underachiever." "Popular with the students, not with the faculty." "Why not?" "He had very strong opinions, wasn't afraid to express them." "The maddening thing, I suppose, is that he was usually right." "Principal Delgado tried to ship him to one of the other plants since his freshman year." " Plants?" " That's what the administrators call schools." "This argument with Landon Bryce over Howard Gordon, that must have upset you." "Certainly, at the time." "I forgot about it right away." "Landon was just doing what he thought was right for his friend, just like I was doing what I thought was right." " You figured Landon as a spirited kid." " Yes, he was." "So, Ben, what were you gonna do before they brought you here?" "Don't call me that." "That's not my name." "Oh, I'm sorry, man." "I didn't mean to dis you." " So what's your real name?" " They took it." "Hey, easy." "She's gonna give you a new name, when they let us outta here." "She is gonna let us outta here, right?" "Am I gonna get to see my dad again?" "I've heard she's let people go before." "So I think yes." "I think once you've proven that you will live the rest of your life in the ways that she has taught you." "The beauty and the need of being ordinary." "What the hell is that?" "There's a tunnel under here." "You can move around beneath the boards, right?" "That's how you tried to escape." "There's nothing unusual in Teresa Roe's background." "She was an average student." "Community college." "BA in education." "Taught at a bunch of high schools." "Became a counsellor." "She never married." "No record." "Pretty ordinary person." "A bunch of high schools?" "The Group's database on missing children." "Let's cross-reference it." "A lot of names tied to the places she worked, but not an inordinate amount of runaways." "Let's go to the more in-depth reports on these kids." "Average grades." "No drugs." "No trouble." "Ordinary kid with signs of promise." "Just like Landon Bryce." "Hey." "Wake up." "It's time to go." "No." "I'm not goin'." "What?" "Don't you think they know about the tunnel?" " Can you possibly be that stupid?" " Yeah, they know about it." " They think no one has the nads to use it." " And they're right." "If we don't walk through an open door, they've got us." "Hey." "What's your real name?" "I told you." "I can't remember my name, OK?" "I can't remember." "You'll remember your name at the end of this tunnel." "Come on." ""Love is Blue", kiss my hairy ass!" "First thing we're gonna do when we get out is break every CD that has that song." "You will be rewarded with a more comfortable room." "Disloyalty is a wonderful trait of the ordinary." "McLaren." "Damon McLaren." "Did you know him when you were at Butler?" "In ten years of teaching and counselling, I've known thousands of students." "Yes." "I remember Damon." " What was so special that you recall him?" " I recall that he was missing." "What about Andrea Daugherty?" "She was vice president of the senior class." "She was voted most likely to succeed." " I don't recall her from Butler." " No, no, no." "Washington High." "Andrea Daugherty went missing from her home January 12th 1990." "You were at both schools." "And now Landon Bryce at Polk?" "Is there concrete evidence that Landon Bryce has been abducted?" "When we talked, you only referred to him in the past tense." "You remember that?" "Like "He was an underachiever. " Or "He had very strong opinions. "" "And I think the other one was "He was a very spirited kid. "" "Do you know something we don't?" "Yes, I speak about Landon Bryce in the past tense, because there's this system in place, gentlemen, one that constantly evaluates our youths and our lives with no application of relativity." "A 4.0 will succeed." "A 2.5 will not." "Below 750 on the SATs, and certain doors close." "Quality of person, sense of humour, heart - these are not on any applications." "It's all about your numbers." "And although yes, definitely, Landon Bryce had "it", that intangibility of soul that kept him in school, that could allow him to affect the quality of our lives for the better, that could lead people where they wish to go," "Landon Bryce couldn't pass through the numbers." "Numbers which tell a young person at 18 they're through." "And unless there's some miracle of timing or events and greatness is thrust upon you, your life is over." "Next." "So if I'm guilty of anything, it's of giving in to this despicable system of numbers." "You are nothing!" "Nothing lies ahead for you!" "You lie awake in the middle of the night, or you look around at others, and you feel inside, in your heart, that maybe - no, definitely - that you are different?" "That you are special?" "That you can make a difference?" "You... are... nothing." "The sooner you realise that mediocrity is all that you are, the sooner your love will be blue." "I love you so much." "I'm working to free you." "When you choose to be ordinary, then... then you will be special." "Because you will be working to be ordinary." "Unlike most others, who just are." "Kate Lynn - did she fall through the numbers?" " I don't know that person." " El Cajon Valley High School." "Class of '70." "I never taught at that school." " You attended that school." " Two years' community college." "You applied to Stanford and Berkeley, but your first year was at Portland State." "An extra semester at Washington State, a year off for work, you came back, got your BA in education." "You wanted a life in behavioural research, to find therapies for abused children." "You have an inherent understanding of people, especially youth." "So instead of fighting the numbers, you surrendered." "And, in answer to that system, you made a deal with the devil." "There's so much more to it than that." "Where is she?" "We got one in here." "I got two more here." "Yeah, there's two more in here." "Got another one." "Make that two." "Landon." "25 victims, most of whom were afraid to come out of their cells." "Still no sign of Lucy Butler." "She's not here." "So where do we start to look for her?" "Everywhere." "Hello, Jordan." "This is your daddy." "We keep missing each other." "I was just calling to, uh..." "I wanted to tell you..." "I needed to tell you how much I miss you, how much I love you." "Very much." "Bye." "I made this!"