Don't Say a Word Page #4

I don't know.

Jessie? Come on. | The parade's gonna start soon.

AII right. I'm gonna go there aII by myself.

See aII those floats alone.

Jessie, come on. Breakfast is getting cold.

Does she have a new hiding place | I don't know?

Probably. She's been running round | the house Iike a wildcat aII week.

Jessie. Get in here right now.

Eat it up before it gets cold.

Nathan? She wouldn't | go out on the balcony, right?

She's not there. She knows better than | to go outside without asking, doesn't she?

Jessie. Get in here right now.

- She Iost one of her socks. | - What?

- She's gone. | - What do you mean?

- Wait. Where is she? | - Somebody came in.

- No. She's in the haIIway... | - Somebody took her.

- Nobody took her, Nathan. | - Aggie, they cut the chain on the door.

What? Nathan, caII the police.

I can't get a dial tone. HeIIo?

Get off the Iine. This is an emergency. | Something's wrong with the phone.

- There is nothinp wronp with it, Nathan. | - This is an emergency.

Yeah, I know.

- Who is this? | - We have your dauphter.

- What? | - Who is it?

What's your worst fear, Nathan?

- My what? | - The fi rst shock can buckle the knees. True?

- Where is she? | - She's unharmed. I don't want to hurt her.

- Give it to me. | - I want somethinp from you.

- No. | - What?

Not until I talk to my daughter | and I know that she's OK.

Rule number one. You do not make demands. | You listen to whatl tellyou.

You caII me back | when I can talk to my daughter.

- What the heII were you doing? | - Aggie.

- Listen to me, Aggie. | - No. Are you crazy?

Aggie. I have to make sure she's aII right.

What if they don't caII back?

- HeIIo? | - Daddy?

- Jessie, are you OK, sweetie? | - Honey, have they hurt you?

No. Daddy, can I come home now? Daddy?

That was very brave, Nathan.

- TeII me how much money you want. | - I don't want your money.

Pick up your wife | before she breaks the other Ieg.

I'm fine.

What?

Nathan, what is it?

Don't close the curtains. I Iike the view.

Good. Now, on the bureau | by the door is a cellphone.

I know whatyou're thinkinp. Don't.

By the time you hit | the one in "911" Jessie will be dead.

Rule number two. Do not try to caII or signal | anyone. If you do, I wiII kiII your daughter.

Not because I want to, but because | those are the rules. Do you understand?

- Yes. | - What?

I can see you. I can hearyou.

Whereveryou po, you will be watched.

- What are they saying? | - lfyou want to see her alive,

don't say a word.

- Now, tell me you understand. | - I understand.

Good. You have a pro bono patient. | Her name is Elisabeth Burrows.

A very disturbed pirl.

She has a six-digit number in her head.

Locked away in her troubled mind. | She guards it with her Iife.

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