"[ children shouting, laughing ]" "Mama!" "Mama!" "Megan." "You cannot fly, baby." "Aw, Mom!" "Mr. Edick." "What are you doing here?" "We need to talk, Janet." "Could we do this another time?" "I'd rather my daughter..." "You haven't been returning my phone calls." "That's why I've come to see you." "Megan:" "Mom!" " Megan." " I know." "No flying." "How is it that you can find me in the middle of San Francisco, and yet you can't find my husband?" "Your husband doesn't want to be found." "I told you that." "It takes time and money... money that you owe us." "Yeah, I told you I gave you all I could." "So you find my husband, and I'll see to it that you get your money, your bonus, everything." "Doesn't work that way, Janet." "Maybe it doesn't work that way because my husband's already paying you." " I don't even know where..." " You tell my husband that if he keeps this up... if he makes me look for him anymore..." "I'm gonna take him to the cleaners." "Do you understand?" "Oh, yeah." "Megan?" "Megan?" "Megan?" "Megan?" "Megan, answer me!" "Hey!" "Where's my daughter?" "!" "[ muffled screaming ]" "Mommy?" "Mommy?" "Mommy?" "Mom? [ breathing deeply ]" "Megan:" "Mommy?" "Megan." "Janet:" "Megan!" "Megan?" "[ doorknob rattles ]" "[ banging ]" "[ creak ]" "Hello?" "Answer me, please." "Please!" "[ breathing heavily ]" "Please." "I just want to see my little girl." "Please?" "Please!" "Tell me if she's okay." "No nails." "Aah." "What do you want from me?" "!" "Help!" "Somebody help me!" "Please." "[ bang on door ] Man:" "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" "Hello?" "Listen, I know you're in there." "Speak up." "[ banging on door ]" "Aah!" "Get back!" "All right..." "Get back!" " Just relax." " Get out!" "Get a grip on yourself!" "All right?" "I'm not gonna hurt you." "I'm here to help." "Who are you?" "My name is Joe." "Okay?" "It's okay." "I'm not one of them." "One of who?" "Where are we?" "I don't know." "I woke up five minutes ago." "How did you get out of your room?" "There's a key..." " in the Bible." " What?" "You don't have a key?" "Just relax." "You know why you're here?" "Why someone would do this?" "I owe some people some money." "How much money?" "About $1,100." "[ chuckles ] That seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to." "Anyone else?" "Huh?" "My husband." "What would your husband want with me?" "Well, where are we?" "I don't know." "Okay, I haven't been farther than the door." "What's the last thing you remember?" "I was in the park and..." "Where?" "San Francisco." "I was in New York." "Look." "You're bleeding." "Let me see your hand." "I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?" "Relax." " Ah." " Ow." "[ inhales sharply ] Aah." "Just suck... suck on that." "I think I heard other people." "Yeah, me too." "And we're gonna go find them." " You are?" " Yeah." "What's wrong?" "What if it's them?" "What if it's the people that took us?" "What if it is?" "We could leave them." "Of course, I could have left you." "[ doorknob rattles ]" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" "Anyone?" "Speak up!" "[ banging on door ] [ rattling ] [ indistinct shouting ] [ banging, rattling ]" "What is this place?" "Man:" "Can anyone hear me?" "For God's sake, let me out!" "Hey." "Listen to me." "All right, in your dresser, there's a Bible." "All right, in the Bible, there's a key." "Look for a Bible in the drawer next to the bed." "Hey." "Charlie Morse." "Capitol Investments." "I'm Joe." "Tell me you're a cop, Joe." "Tell me this is over." "It's not over." "If they want money, I've got it." "Still trying to figure out who "they" are." "Give me a hand?" "Did I miss my wake-up call?" "Aah!" "Hey, hey, hey." "Easy, easy, easy!" "Take it easy, soldier." "We're on your side." "You're a hostage too?" "Yeah." "We're all hostages." "Okay." "It's okay." "[ doorknob rattling ]" "[ groans softly ]" "I didn't think I drank that much." "Oh!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "You okay?" "My standards must really be slipping." "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hey." "Hey, do you know where you are?" "Do you know what's happening?" "I think I need to get to a phone." "Come on." "Charlie:" "I don't get it." "Where the hell are the guys that took us?" "I'm not waiting around to find out." "[ banging, rattling ]" "It's magnetically sealed." "You'll never get it opened." "[ clicking ]" "Joe:" "Nothing." "[ clicking ] It's not working." "Why don't they come and get us?" "I don't get it." "What kind of a kidnapping is this?" "!" "That sort of behavior is contagious, sir!" "You need to keep your powder dry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm just..." "It's my wife." "She's got emotional problems." "She's lost without me." "If I'm not there to look after her, she'll..." "I don't even want to think about what could happen." "Hey, smoke detector." "Those magnets should shut off if there's an alarm." "What are you saying?" "I'm saying if we start a fire in here, we should be able to get out." "But if the doors don't open, then we're stuck in here." "I'm not talking about setting the building on fire." "If we just..." "Holding a small flame up to that sensor should do it." "Charlie:" "Sure." "No sweat." "Anybody got any matches?" "Here." "Break that down as small as you can." "I mean splinters." "This is ridiculous." "Woman:" "San Francisco Register." "Damatto:" "When I say headline, I mean headline." "I want something that jumps out and grabs the reader by the throat." "Unh-unh." "No good." "Get Sam to rewrite it." "Renbe, I'm dying to know." "Come on..." "this transvestite-hooker thing." "Who is it?" "Tell me." "I need one more confirmation." " Is it who I think it is?" " Better." "You see this?" " What is it?" " It's the police blotter." "Missing person at a playground in the park yesterday." "Kiddie thief's hardly our bit." "It was the mom who got herself picked off." "Never touched her kid." "Mom abandons kid." "Eh." "Again, I say..." "No, single mom." "Good mom." "Runs a daycare out of her house." "Sound like the sort that..." "Well, if it's happened, it's happened in San Francisco." "And if it hasn't happened here..." "Both:" "It hasn't happened." "I got video." "Oh, of course you've got video." "Don't take me for granted, Kat." "Cops don't give up evidence like they used to." "A security camera caught the whole thing." "Networks won't get this for the next few hours." "Vague." "Not vague." "Tantalizing." "Anybody claim her?" "No." "Just the kid." "Five years old." "Daddy left." "Grandmother on the mother's side, but..." "You're looking at me." "I'm looking at you." "Your missing mom is gonna end up in a garbage bag, Mark." "You know that." "You give me my transvestite first." "Then you can have your missing mom." "I can't see a damn thing." "Everybody think." "What's the last thing you remember?" "Moira:" "I'm trying to remember anything." "I went to..." "I went to sleep last night like any other night, and I woke up here." "Who would do this?" "What are you worth?" " Worth?" "In dollars?" " Yeah." "Uh..." "I'm a counselor." "I..." "Crisis intervention for a teachers' union." "I make $38,000 a year." "I have $11,000 in an I.R.A." "Soldier?" "The corps doesn't pay much, sir." "What about you?" "I'm not worth anything to anyone but me." "Maybe, maybe not." "What do you do?" "Why do you think they would want to grab you?" "I'd rather not say." "W..." "Just answer the question." "Who are you?" "What do you do?" "Hey, no offense, but I don't know who you people are." "We're all sitting around wondering where the bad guy is." "How do you know the bad guy's not right here?" "He's right." "Any one of us could be one of them." "But Joe's the only one I don't know anything about." "Now, come on." "Everybody is worth something to someone." "Janet:" "What makes you so sure that this is about money?" "I mean, I have no money, no family." "I'm not worth anything to anyone." "Life insurance, maybe?" "None." "Then what?" "Think." "There's only one reason why someone is kidnapped, as far as I know." "Not everyone is abducted for money." "Right, sergeant?" " Sir." "Yes, sir." "Tori:" "Oh, God." "Are you saying someone's gonna cut our heads off?" "It's hard to cut it off if you keep moving." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Come on, come on." "Right there." "Someone grab that table over there." "Here." "Come on." "Look." "Someone's coming." "Move!" "Move!" "[ elevator bell dings ]" "Coming?" "[ elevator rattling ]" "[ bell dings ]" "[ "Beautiful Dreamer" playing ]" "What the hell?" "A hotel." "[ lock disengages ]" "Hello?" "!" "Chinese food?" "Joe:" "Sheriff's office." "Well, someone's been here." "Hello?" "Dead." "Hello?" "[ telephone rattling ]" "All dead." "I don't get it." "A sheriff's office with no sheriff?" "I wonder who's watching us." "Wish they would just come get us." "This is almost worse." "Joe:" "Guys, we better get moving." "We only have a few hours until dark." "You mean just walk?" "Yeah." "Till someone tries to stop us." "Um, is that a gun rack?" "[ gun cocks ]" "Nobody move!" "Janet:" "So... what now?" "What?" "What do you want us to do?" "Get on the ground, okay?" "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey." " Now!" " Take it easy." " Shut up!" " Just take it easy, all right?" "Do what he says." "Get down!" "You!" "On the ground!" "Okay, which one of you is in charge?" " We thought..." " What?" "Aren't you in charge?" "[ chuckles ] So you're not them, huh?" "You mean you're not them?" "Lady, I don't know who "them" is, okay?" "Hey, listen." "We were taken, same as you." "I don't know that." "Get on the ground, okay?" " Okay." "Relax." " Get down!" "Look, I'm not gonna say it again!" "If you want to shoot me... just do it." "I got nothing to lose." "Look!" "I'm not gonna tell you again!" "All right?" "For the last time... get on the floor!" "[ gunshot, indistinct shouting ]" "Get the gun!" "Get the gun!" "Get the gun!" "McNair:" "Hold him!" "Hold him down!" "Hold him down." "Man:" "Okay." "All right." "All... all right." "Uncle." "Uncle." "I'm gonna keep squeezing until we get some answers now." "What's your name?" "[ breathing heavily ]" "I'm Bill Blackham." "I'm a car salesman." "Okay." "Get up." " Aah!" " Get up." "Oh, God." "Aah." "Where are we?" "How do we get out of here?" "I don't know." "Look, last thing I remember," "I was getting pulled over by the cops." "Red lights, anyway." "I woke up in that hotel over there." "You're the one." "I heard you walk past my room." "Oh, was that you screaming for help?" "You mean you just left her there?" "Hey, look, no hard feelings." " Aah!" " Charlie!" "Charlie!" "Enough." "Come on, enough." "Let him go." "What do we do with this guy?" "Does it really matter?" "He could be one of them." "Okay." "You can all stand around, trying to figure out who's who." "But I'm getting out of here." "Now, who's with me?" "I am." "Who else?" "Fine." " Begging your pardon, sir." " What?" "We don't know what's out there." "So, what, we just stand here?" "All I'm saying is, exercise caution." "Wait until dark." "I'll take the gun and do a recon." "Supposing you get capped out there in the dark?" "I'm willing to take that risk." "Well, that's your job, isn't it?" "But then you'll be dead out there with the one weapon we have." " If that's how you feel..." " Listen, I'm not waiting for dark." "I'm going home right now." "You can stay here and watch the others." "Who put the grunt in charge?" "You did." "If I'm not back by tomorrow, do your recon." "I'll be back... with help." "No, no, no, no, no." "Please don't go." "Don't go." "Don't go." "Don't go with him." "I have to." "My daughter, she..." "Charlie:" "Maybe Moira's right." "Supposing something happens to you out there." "What then?" " Don't." "Don't." "Don't." " I'm going." "I have to go." "Were you in the military, Joe?" "[ chuckling ] Me?" "You kidding?" "Where'd you get an idea like that?" "Things you say." "Things you seem to know, like the way you signaled to that marine back there." "I pick up a lot of funny things in my line of work." "What line of work is that?" " What's your name?" " Janet." "Janet, you know, your daughter is probably perfectly fine." "My daughter is five, okay?" "She has allergies and a special diet." "Yeah, and if something happens to you out here..." "She's not safe, okay?" "So I've got to get home." "Okay, okay, but if something does happen to you, you have family, right?" " Someone to take care of." " What about you, Joe?" "I mean, your life sure can't seem to wait." "Who's waiting for you back home?" " Nobody." " No one?" "That's right." "No friends, no family, no girlfriend?" "[ sighs ]" "Nothing that can't wait." "Joe?" "Joe, can you hear me?" "Oh." "Oh!" "What happened?" " Stay here, stay here." " Where are you going?" " Sir!" "No!" " Come on!" "Come on!" "Hold on!" "Just give it a minute!" "We can't just let them lie out there." "Nobody's getting left behind, but there's a way to do this." "Trust me." "This is what I do." "Okay." "Okay." "Were they shot?" "Do you think they were shot?" "I didn't hear anything." "I don't see any blood." "There would be a lot of blood." "Hey, let me go with you." "You watch me." "Only me." "If I'm hit, you need to figure out where it came from." "Okay." "McNair!" "Moira:" "Charlie, come on." " Damn it." "This obviously is not working." "Come on." "Let's go." " We got to go back." "Go." " They might have been shot!" "Get in here!" "Get in here!" "Let's go in here." "[ birds calling ]" "Can you recall the last time you saw your daughter?" "Not for some time." "We've both been very busy." "She had her daycare, and I had my..." "To be perfectly truthful, my daughter and I were not speaking to one another." "That is to say, she was not speaking to me." "Until recently, I was cut out of her life completely." "I never even met her husband." "She felt that Megan ought to know her grandmother, even..." "She never felt I was a good parent." "The word she used was "abusive."" "But I never hit her." "One time." "I hit her with a hairbrush until it broke." "My daughter and I were..." "Well, we both are... very strong-willed, you see." "Megan:" "Nana!" " Yes?" "I found this in your room." "Is this yours?" "[ gasps ] Oh." "No." "No, she isn't mine." "Then whose is it?" "Well, she used to be mine." "But now she's yours, angel." "Thank you, Nana." "I can't wait when Mommy gets home so I can show her." "Yes, I am sure she will be thrilled." "Now, take Dolly upstairs and play." "I have to keep talking to Mr. Renbe." "Go on." "Go on." "If there is a silver lining to this, it's that I've been given a second chance." "A chance to be the parent I supposedly never was." "Well, it is indeed a blessing." "Thank you very much for your time, ma'am." "And don't worry about your daughter." "I'm sure she'll turn up in no time." "Oh, I'm quite sure it will all end well." "[ breathing heavily ]" "General store is empty." "What about them?" "They're just lying there." "[ vehicle passes ]" "Hey, hey, hey." "Hey!" "What are you..." "Are you an idiot?" "It could be them!" "It could be the cops." "It could be someone driving by." "Yeah, the only someone ever." "[ men speaking Chinese ]" "You got to be kidding me." "Oh, my God." "[ shouting in Chinese ]" "Charlie:" "Put your hands up." "Put your hands up." "Okay." "Okay." "[ speaking Chinese ]" "Okay." "Thank you." "Okay." "Do you speak English?" "Bill:" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hey, hey!" "Where you going?" " What happened?" " I..." "I don't know." "I blinked my eyes, and I woke up in that van." "It was like..." "You ever have Demerol?" "Charlie:" "Where the hell did these guys come from?" "Bill:" "I don't know." "They went in there." " Stand up." "Get undressed." " What?" "Do what I said." "You heard me." "Down to your skivvies." "Come on." "E... excuse me?" "You heard me." "Do what I said." "If you were drugged, there should be marks." "Okay, pants off." "Hey, whoa, Moira." "W... why don't you and Joe just go get a room, huh?" "[ laughs ]" "Yeah." "Look at this." " What the hell is that?" " Does that hurt?" "Aah." "It's a little tender, yeah." "Janet." "McNair." "Come on." "Pants off." "Put your clothes back on." "Bill:" "What are you doing?" "Yeah." "There it is." "Joe:" "Yeah." " Okay, everybody, pants off." " Okay." "Tori:" "I have one." " Yep." "Okay, eyes front, pervert." " What?" "[ chuckles ]" " What is it?" " Aah." " Yep." " We've all got one." " What are they?" "Charlie:" "What is it?" "If I'm right, they're implants." "Biometric implants." "They're used for administering medicine over extended periods of time, and they can be operated remotely." "Oh, that's fantastic." "I'm guessing we're all carrying a load of tranquilizer around." "You walk past a certain point out there, you trigger the implant..." "Lights out." "You know a lot about this stuff." "Medication is my life." "Can you get them out?" "They feel pretty deep." "Even if we had the tools to cut you open and sew you back up..." "Hey." "[ man speaks Chinese ]" "Ah, come in." "Please." " What?" " Please." "Come in." "Please." "Uh, you eat." "You sit." "You eat." "Please." "Come." "Please." "You eat." "[ speaks Chinese ]" "Come, come, come, come." "Please." "Come." "Please, please." "Come." "You eat." "Please." "Please sit." "You eat." "Please." "Please." "Come, come." "Please." "Good, good food." "Please." "Please." "Come." "No, we don't want to sit down, and we don't want to eat." "We want some answers, and we want them now." "All right, take us to your leader, Hop Sing!" "Right now!" "Man:" "Please!" "Food for you here!" "Please." "We come, we make food." "We not responsible." "[ gun cocks ] Hands up!" "Right now!" "We make food!" "We not responsible!" "What are you doing?" "Getting some answers." "Man:" "We not responsible." "Please." "We only make food." "Only food!" "We not responsible." " Please." " Shut up!" "Please!" " This isn't gonna work." " We only make food." "We not responsible." "Please." "Only food." "Come on!" "He obviously doesn't know anything." "Yeah?" "Well, we'll see about that, won't we?" "Please." "Please." "We only make food." "Only food." "Please!" "Charlie:" "Oh, God!" "Come on!" "We got to do something here." "I agree, but this isn't it." " Well, what, then?" " I don't know." "But not this." "Okay, Joe's right." "[ speaking Chinese ]" "Please." "Please." "Please." "Please." "Please." "Please sit." "Please." "Please sit." "We, uh... we bring food." "Please." "[ men speaking Chinese ]" "Is anybody gonna eat that?" "How do you feel?" "It's the best damn Chinese food I ever had." "I could eat it every day." "You hang in there, Janet." "We're gonna get you back." "What if they took her?" "What if my daughter is in a place like this?" "Don't think like that." "You don't understand." "I hope they took her." "Then at least I'd know she'd be safe." "Thank you." "You're supposed to let fate decide." "[ mechanical whirring ]" ""Your wife is waiting for you."" " That's what mine says." "Moira:" "Let me see that." "Is anybody else here..." ""Your judgment is a little off at this point."" ""You will soon win some high prize or award."" ""By helping someone else, you also help yourself."" "Mine's in Chinese." "Moira?" "[ mechanical whirring ]" "Mine's just numbers." "That's weird." "Janet?" "What?" "What does yours say?" "It just said, uh," ""May the road rise to meet you."" "An Irish fortune cookie?" "Are any other men here married?" "Come on." "She spun that thing." "You can't think that's specifically meant for you." "Joe:" "It's a fortune, Charlie." "Don't kill yourself over it." "Did you enjoy your meal?" "Who the hell are you?" "I'm the night manager." "Moira:" "What are you doing here?" "I..." "I manage the hotel." "At night." "Is that gun loaded?" "How long have you worked here?" "I started last night." "Then you would have seen who brought us here." "Beg your pardon, ma'am, but you were already checked in when I started." "Oh." "Here." "Yesterday's register." "It says we checked in at 6:00 P.M." "That's right, ma'am." "Excuse me, sir." "May I see your knife for a moment?" "Great." "Here." "Now, listen." "We've had a very long, very weird day." "And I think I speak for the group when I say" "That we are not against breaking your eye sockets... if we don't get some answers." "Well, I'm at your service, sir." " What would you like to..." " Where are we?" "I'm afraid I don't know." "Unh-unh." "Unh-unh." "That is not an answer." "Okay, Charlie." "Where did you come from?" "My apartment." "Behind the hotel." "I think she means before that." "A man called to tell me I had the job starting the next day." "I went to bed and woke up here." "And that didn't seem funny to you?" "I'm used to it by now."