Forecast is for an overnight low in the 40s.
There is a 70 per cent chance of thunderstorms...
"Arabia, in what is described as..."
The Nets took care of the Magic, 112 to 109...
Residents of the Olsen Creek area...
(TVs all on at once)
Hungary, NATO's latest member, has a new problem.
However, these problems are internal rather than external...
The quake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale...
(man) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has
agreed to the details of the upcoming talks.
President Clinton has endorsed the planned summit in January after the holidays.
(woman) The Czech Republic accepted its NATO membership
in a ceremony witnessed by secretary of state, Madeleine Albright...
- The ceremony was attended by... - ..by becoming NATO members...
In he! Address, Secretary Albrigm made veiled hints at further NATO expansion...
since becoming candidate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
"And when the Lamb opened the second seal
I heard the second beast say 'Come.
"And there went out another horse that was red."
"And power was given to him that sat thereon
to take peace from the Earth and to make men slay each other."
"To him was given a large sword."
"The great day of his wrath is come."
"And who shall be able to stand?"
These are the flyers. Parents started calling
the school when their kids didn't show up.
Five hours later, there's no trace of them or the bus.
- Bus driver? - Vernon Roberts.
Born and raised here, driven the school bus
for 22 years. Most likely he's a victim too.
It's a small town, farmers mostly, heart of
the Bible Belt. Everyone knows his neighbours.
I believe whatever happened here came from without.
If this was an abduction, we have to find
the point of encounter before the rain comes.
The FBi's been informed. State troopers are checking out the bus route.
- Mr Watts. They found the bus. - Let's go.
(man) Winch it slow. We got the cab coming now.
Sheriff Cayce, this is Frank Black.
I understand this location is quite a distance away from the normal route.
Sheriff?
Do you have a child on that bus?
My daughter, Jessica.
She just turned eight.
Before I saw the bus in the water,
I still had hope that this was something... anything other than this.
I prepared myself.
I recalled the times I had to tell a father that his child just died.
I thought I knew how it'd feel to be on the other side of this.
If this was an accident, the bodies are inside.
It's insanity to wish for a mass abduction.
Better a slim chance than no chance.
We got our wish.
Mr Vernon?
Where are we going?
We'll see when we get there, honey.
- I wanna go home. - (child) Me too.
OK.
Everybody, listen to me.
I want you to hold hands with the person next to you.
Can you do that?
Everybody holding hands?
We're gonna have a prayer.
Our Father, who alt in heaven,
(all) hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts
(man joins other voices) as we forgive our debtors
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.
Forever.
Crime scene's back there.
No, it's here and up that road, about five miles.
That was the point of encounter, before the
bus driver could drop off the first student.
The bus was forced to stop because of an obstacle, debris or a disabled vehicle.
The abductor would be feigning weakness or injury
so as not to present a threat to the bus driver.
He would approach with difficulty, disarming
suspicion. The next move is pure surprise.
With a blitz attack so sudden and vicious,
the abductor easily disables his only threat.
He might kill the driver, though I would have expected to find the body on the bus.
Moments after the point of encounter, he drives away.
Although he's never done this before, in his mind he's lived it a thousand times.
In less than ten minutes they arrive here. The abductor guards the front.
A truck or a van pulls up behind the bus.
The kids are herded toward the rear and forced into the escape vehicle.
The bus is driven into the river to buy time.
There must've been more than one kidnapper.
There was an accomplice, but this was from the mind of one man.
To find the children, we're gonna have to understand the why of it.
Well, with all due respect, Mr Black, I really
don't care why. I just want to catch him.
I detected white paint on the emergency door.
That's the colour of the kidnapper's vehicle.
I'll get a bulletin out. That'|| give something
to work on till we get the ransom demand.
- There won't be a ransom demand. - How do you know?
Experience.
Dispatch, this is Baker Seven responding to a APB on a white truck or van.
I need to run a plate and a 10-29 on a late '80s Econoline.
Texas licence, Romeo Fox Sierra 4-5-8.
(woman) Baker Seven, that's a clean plate. No warrants outstanding. No reports.
Whoa. I got a rabbit. Heading east on Lonsdale.
Baker Seven proceed on code two. Possible hostages.
Sheriff. Highway patrol's in pursuit of a white van, east on Lonsdale Road.
He's heading our way. I want to get patched
in to that trooper. Get every vehicle on this.
Mr Black? Looks like you get to ask him why face to face.
Baker Seven. This is McCultain County Sheriff. You got a 20 on that white van?
Still proceeding east. Approaching Highway 58.
If he gets on, we'll cut him off at the junction to 60.
If he stays on Lonsdale, we'll set the roadblock up at Louis Road.
- They run a plate on that van? - You got a name to go with the vehicle?
Yeah. Vehicle is registered in Texas to a Robert Renee Thomas.
- Texas? - 36, Caucasian.
165, 5'9". Brown hair, brown eyes.
Doesn't make sense he's from out of state.
The abduction was too well-organised. They either knew or studied those children.
- Was the vehicle reported stolen? - Negative.
Heading south down 58.
Let's take this guy out at the junction to 60.
Light him up a quarter mile away and we'll be waiting.
He's putting the hammer down now. I'm gonna light him up.
(Siren)
(Cayce) Step out of the vehicle. Keep your hands where we can see 'em.
Interlace your fingers. Put 'em on top of your heads. Now lay facedown on the ground.
I know we were speeding. If we can just get the ticket?
We've tracked a splitting storm with a BRN of 89. That's ripe for a supercell.
- We gotta get the turtle onto the ground. - What the hell are you talking about?
They're not the ones we're looking for. They're meteorologists. Storm chasers.
Officers. Piece of advice.
I'm reading vortex signatures at around 10,000ft.
Whoever you're looking for, find them quick, cos there's a bad boy out there.
- And when he hits... - There'll be nothing left to find.
(thunder)
(engine stops)
(child shouts)
Come out one at a time. I need a piece of clothing and your name.
(Vernon groans)
You. Get in the hole and help 'em down.
This can't be about the money. Their parents are farmers, clerks, working class.
I've consulted the Group. They think it's
unlikely this was perpetrated by terrorists.
They're checking militia activity. It may be political.
This feels more personal. It's...
Against the parents? Hurt them through their offspring?
It's terrifying there's been no communication.
If they're using these kids as commodities to be battered,
then they should have contacted us by now to assure us they're safe.
Unless he has another purpose.
Every child of school age in Broken Bow was on that bus.
- He's taken more than the children. - He's taken away the future.
How many children were on your bus today?
17.
There are 18 in the school.
You were to make certain.
You tell me who's missing.
I can't.
It's no good if they're not all here.
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength,
and honour, and glory, and blessing."
Vernon.
Tell me... are you worthy?
(Vernon screams)
The National Weather Service has issued a storm advisory over southeastern Oklahoma.
There is a 40 per cent chance of thundershowers,
increasing to 60 per cent by tomorrow.
Now back to this week's top 40 countdown on KROZ.
(old song on radio)
I was going over the logbooks from this afternoon...
(turns volume up)
You wanna hear your favourite song?
"(man)" I saw the beast, and the kings of the
Earth, and their armies, gathered together
to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army."
How'd you know there'd be a message?
Even I know that song's not in the top 40.
So, after the weather, which I do live, I play the prerecords,
and instead of Spice Girls I get Psycho Boy.
I want a list of all the people who have access to this room, anybody with a key.
"I saw the beast, and the kings of the Earth...'"
Interesting choice of music considering the message. He's quoting the Bible.
Don't make too much of that. Folks around
here cite the Bible in everyday conversation.
The passage is Revelation, 19 verse 19. Maybe
he considers himself the one on the horse.
19?
There were 18 victims. 17 children and one bus driver.
- How many children attend the school? - 18.
- Making 19 victims. - Who missed school today?
- (Frank) He's in there. - Cover the back yard.
Rick? Rick? Where is he?
My son. My son.
(child yells)
Son of a bitch.
No. No. This gets you nothing. Nothing.
Believe me, I've been there. He's the only one that can help us.
We're running your prints.
It's only a matter of minutes before I'll know your whole history.
(Cayce) Where are they?
You're in a world of trouble.
Give me a reason to help you.
We are going to find them. It's going to be a lot easier for you if you help.
He's not gonna talk and you won't match his prints.
He has to have a prior record.
It's highly unusual for a criminal to start a career with a mass abduction.
He's not a criminal and he hasn't committed
any crime. That's the message he's giving.
To him this is a fight between good and evil and we have the horns and pitchforks.
Till we understand that and act accordingly, we're not gonna find them.
Sheriff. This was just found at the Tisdale ranch.
What the hell is he doing?
It's too late, asswipe. I don't need your help.
I got you now. You are gonna die for your sins if I have to kill you myself.
(Frank) We just lost round one.
(man) Got another one!
(man #2) Found one over here!
Sheriff, it's a decoy. They're not here.
Well, this is all I can do.
I'm afraid if I don't keep going and keep moving, no matter how hopeless,
then it'll become exactly that.
Every piece of clothing that we found has blood on it.
Frank.
I don't trust myself to face this animal again.
I'm not trying to make you feel better,
but I don't believe that the blood on those clothes are from those children.
It's not human. The lab ran a quick analysis. The blood came from an animal.
Also, they found fibre embedded in the fabric,
so the blood was painted onto the clothing.
Lamb's blood.
Passover?
Also, Revelation, chapter 6 verse 5.
"The Lamb opened the seven seals..."
No luck on the fingerprints yet, so his identity is still a mystery.
The Lamb in Revelation represents Jesus Christ.
Is that who this guy thinks he is?
No. Feels more like he's sending us clues.
Where's the nearest religious bookstore?
One that has a big stock of specialty items.
- Books on prophesy, revelation, apocrypha.
Every store in the world is as close as the post office.
- Mail order is the way most people shop. - The Group has a database that can help.
It has the address of anyone who's bought a
Bible through the mail over the last ten years.
We can narrow it if he's purchased specialty items.
You're telling me the Millennium Group keeps track of anyone who buys a book?
Certain books.
Why?
Exactly this reason.
Mr Vernon?
If we pile up these mattresses, we can reach the top and get out.
We've already started, but we need your help.
My daddy always said...
that it's not what you've done, it's what you're gonna do.
(Peter) Two more names left on the list.
Interesting how many households bought a Bible and resubscribed to Guns 8. Ammo.
Hey, I got a call from the Group.
Back in Seattle, there's a warrant issued in
your name because of an unpaid traffic ticket.
It's a mistake. They never sent a notice.
Then informed me it was overdue, citing a vehicle I've never seen, let alone driven.
Seems there's been a lot of distractions like that lately.
- Well, we'll take care of it. - No. I'll handle it.
That's it.
(many TVs on at once)
Anybody home?
Can you send for Lara Means?
I know she works with the Group. She knows I do.
She's a good forensic psychologist.
We can use her friends in high places.
We're sitting in someone's brain.
This is wrong.
Eastern kings will be pitted against the kings
of the north - Europe, the United States,
not Iraq.
(kidnapper) “Gog” is not China.
It's the Russians.
So that makes "Magog" America.
That was a nice call, to copy it down incorrectly.
An obsessive personality would never be able
to stand the glaring errors in his work.
It's just a jump-start to get him talking. It's still up to Frank to draw him out.
Do you have any idea what you have here?
After the second great struggle between the nations will come the Third World War,
which will determine everything.
With eyes open, will the world's nations enter into these catastrophes?
They shall not be aware of what is happening,
and those that would, and will tell,
shall be silenced.
I was paraphrasing.
Stormberger, 18th century.
You understand my problem.
You felt Matthew Prine had to act.
Somebody had to. I didn't see anybody else stepping up.
So by taking the children you can stop it, stop the war before it starts?
(Prine) World War Ill has already started.
People think that wars happen in the future, but they really happen in the past.
The fighting is just the inevitable result of events that have already occurred.
So why take the children?
Just as he who will fight the war is born,
so is he that will end the fighting.
One of the children was a peacemaker.
He or she... is our only hope.
I have seen the seeds of destruction.
I am protecting the future.
(Frank) From what?
(Prine) If I knew what, I would have eliminated the threat myself.
So you have no intention of harming them. When will they be returned?
- When I see the sign. - What if you don't see that sign?
Then our saviour wasn't there.
And it doesn't matter if these live or die.
(distant rumbling)
Since you have no intention of harming them, when are you going to release them?
- (Lara) There. That's the tell. - Looks like he's scratching his hand.
Exactly. But it's when he chooses to scratch that's telling.
This is the first explicit mention of the children. Watch the right hand.
There. If he just had an itch or whatever, you'd expect him to scratch randomly.
This scratching is subconsciously motivated.
Every time he's forced to think about the
children he reacts. He's showing us his guilt.
I know he's guilty. What we need is the location of the children.
If his motives are what he says, are the children in danger?
He claims to be protecting them.
Here's my thing. He can't even bring himself to acknowledge the children.
His words: "It doesn't matter if these live or die."
Do you think he would manifest this tell if he was brought near the children?
If we were to drive him by the place where the children were kept and watched him,
he'd scratch his skin to the bone.
There's over 1800 miles in the county.
There's no way we could drive by every possible hiding place.
There were eight hours between abductions. That's four hours' travel time.
Take away 30 minutes for transfer into the van, submerging the bus.
Subtract 30 minutes for planting decoys and
getting the children into their hiding place.
They took an hour to plan and execute the second abduction.
That's half-hour to 45 minutes actual travel time.
- They're hidden in Broken Bow. - It's still too much ground to cover.
15 minutes with him, I'll get an answer.
That's not gonna work. Not with a zealot.
If your interrogation fails, the children pay the consequence.
I don't think you can afford to risk that.
We need a lab. I think we should contact the Bureau in Oklahoma City.
- Group has access to one in Muskogee. - I think we can narrow down the location.
Put this on.
You're being transferred in the morning.
Storm warnings have shut down commercial flights. I'll take a car to Muskogee.
(Frank) Whoever helped Matthew Prine will suspect he's been captured.
We don't have much time before he acts.
I'll get you on a crop duster, fly you direct.
Better you than me.
(vehicle approaches then stops)
(door shuts)
(phone rings)
- Yeah? - (Peter) Got the results.
The soil sample has a high concentration of bauxite.
Bauxite?
Is there an aluminum processing plant or a quarry nearby?
There's an abandoned quarry about ten miles out of town.
They're at the quarry. We're on it.
(thunder)
- (Lara) Got it. - Give him about a 15-second head start.
That will keep us well within range without arousing his suspicion.
(whispers) Jessica?
Shh.
(whispers) Don't talk and don't move.
We have to save the air.
Jack. When you get into the quarry, be
ready to make sudden turns on my directions.
And don't you talk to that bastard, no matter what he says.
In the next few minutes we'll know whether
we should've just beat the hell out of him.
Here's my thing. I'm results-orientated.
- (Lara) Confirmation. - Go to the heart of the quarry.
He didn't want any audience when he unloaded those kids.
Jack. Make the next left.
We are close.
Jack, stop.
Back up. Slowly.
(Gunshot)
(Lara) Oh, my God.
Jack's been hit. Go.
(Gunshot)
Don't move, you son of a bitch.
- Tell him to stop shooting. Now! - Let me go.
- Tell him. - (Cayce) Move!
Where are the children?
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven..."
I don't give a damn what happens. You have ten seconds to tell me before I kill you.
- "..They shall be his people..." - Understand?
(Cayce) Nine, eight, seven...
- five, four, three, two... - (Frank) Cayce, put it down!
Cayce! Put it down.
The sign.
We gotta find cover.
- You all right? - (officer) Sheriff. Over here.
Found the shooter.
There's no one left to tell us where they are.
Jessica!
State troopers are following the path of the
tornado. Still no trace of Matthew Prine.
Maybe he went somewhere over the rainbow.
Damage from the storm was considerable. Particularly,
the schoolhouse where the children would
have been in class was completely destroyed.
Are you suggesting that he actually saved the children?
The only thing that we can sure about
is that it will be the children who will save us.
Visiontext Subtitles: Katherine Appleby
(child) I made this!
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