Along Came a Spider Page #2

Synopsis: Detective/psychologist Alex Cross loses his partner in an out of control 'bust.' He stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Lee Tamahori
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
R
Year:
2001
104 min
$73,587,034
Website
1,529 Views


Vickie,

you know that forgiving yourself

is the one thing a person cannot do.

[Man On TV]

... choose to make contact.

We are currently trying to put the

pieces together as to how and why...

this man would murder a teacher

and kidnap a young student.

Here's a photograph

of the missing student.

Megan Ann Rose is 12 years old,

blond hair with hazel eyes.

She's 3'5" tall

and weighs about 52 pounds.

She was last seen inside the school

with the suspect around noon today.

We have just

received information...

that senior F.B.I.

And Secret Service officials...

have arrived at the family home

of Senator Rose.

We will go there live as soon

as we have our satellite feed.

Technicians are setting up extra

telephone lines in the Rose home,

all in preparation

should the kidnapper...

[Child Groaning]

[Groaning Continues]

Mom...

please,

I just wanna go home.

The F.B.I. And police are on the

lookout for this man, Gary Soneji.

- This is a recent photograph...

- We only know that he has...

disappeared with the 12-year-old

daughter of Senator Hank Rose.

How and why is on the minds...

Police are trying to find out

who this man really is,

his motives for killing

teacher Amy Masterson...

- [Phone Ringing]

- We go back live to join...

reporter Alison Peretsky,

who has been at the scene...

since law enforcement

officials arrived.

[Reporter Continues,

Indistinct]

- Yeah?

- [Megan] Mom...

please,

I wanna go home.

Hello?

You tuned into me,

Dr. Cross?

[Distorted Voice] Sounds like

Alison Peretsky at WNKW Action News.

- Gary Soneji?

- That'll do for now.

How'd you get this number?

Unlisted numbers? Come on, Alex,

there's no such thing.

It's all out there in the air. You

just have to know how to grab it.

Hey, how do you feel about

my kidnapping being bigger news...

than your little tragedy

with Jim Gelway?

You ought to give an interview

about what happened that night.

You know what they say about sharing

your pain. It's very cathartic.

- Thanks, but I'm doing okay.

- That's good to hear. Very good.

I thought for a while there

you wouldn't be able to get...

your act back together,

and that would be a great shame.

I've been planning for a long,

long time to involve you...

in the fate of our

little Miss Muffet.

Megan. Do you have trouble

saying her name?

[Laughing]

First-name rapport?

Hostage negotiations 101?

Now come on, Alex, you can do

better than that, can't you?

You think you're gonna dissect me

in three blinks of an eye?

I'm not that easy.

But with a little patience

and a little help,

you just might

profile me to a "T."

What makes you think

I'm interested?

They say that when I die,

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Marc Moss

Marc Moss is an American screenwriter raised in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Moss was credited with the feature films Along Came a Spider (2001), starring Morgan Freeman and Monica Potter, and Alex Cross (2012), starring Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox. He has also doctored numerous films including Kiss the Girls (1997), starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman; Runaway Jury (2003), featuring John Cusack and Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman; Shooter (2007), starring Mark Wahlberg; and Homefront (2014), starring Jason Statham and James Franco. more…

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