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Hello?
Hello?
- Is this Anthony Peterson?
Who is this?
- Is this Anthony Peterson?
Who the fuck is this?
- Is this Anthony Peterson?
Yes, this is Anthony Peterson.
Who the hell are you?
- This is Mrs. Anthony Peterson.
- Anthony, you've gotta help me.
They've got me tied to a chair and blindfolded.
Oh, Susan,
no, Susan.
- I don't know where I am,
they won't tell me who they are.
I'm scared.
- You give us what we want
or we take turns gang-fucking her
and we post it on the web, and then we kill her.
It'll be the world's first live snuff film.
- No, no, don't hurt her, please, don't hurt her.
- Then give us what we want.
Where am I?
- You've been kidnapped, Mr. Peterson, trapped.
What's the last thing you remember?
- Uh, I was on the street and then, uh,
I was smothered, and I woke up here.
- We drugged you, pulled you off the street,
something that happens in human trafficking circles
100 times a day around the world.
Where am I?
- Maybe you're in Siberia,
maybe the Middle East, maybe you're in New York,
maybe you're just down the street from your home.
- Are you just outside this container?
- Maybe we're 100 miles away,
maybe we're next door.
The thing is, you'll never know.
Well, what do you want?
$10 million.
- I do not have that kind of money.
- We both know that you do.
- Wait a minute, is this something personal?
Do I know you?
Shut up.
If you contact the police, your wife dies, then you die.
If you contact the FBI, your wife dies, then you die.
If you contact any authorities,
your wife dies, then you die.
You've got air for 24 hours,
that should be more than enough time
to get the money together.
- No, no, 24 hours is not enough time, I need more time.
- Once you have the money,
we'll send you the account to wire it to.
You do as we say, we'll let you go and your wife go.
If you deviate from the plan one iota, you're both dead.
We'll rape and murder your wife and broadcast it online,
and then we'll leave you to die alone slowly of suffocation.
Chances are, your body will never be found.
- Please, don't do this, please, I'm begging you.
- You've got some calls to make.
Help me!
Help, help me, please, please!
Help me!
Get me outta here, please!
Help! Help!
Help!
Get me outta this place!
I need help!
Help! Help!
Damn it!
Hello?
Tom!
Tom, it's Anthony.
Anthony?
God, it's two o'clock in the morning.
Just listen to me!
I have been kidnapped.
Kidnapped?
What, is this a joke?
No, no, they got Susan too,
and they're gonna kill her
if I don't give 'em what they want.
Who?
- I don't know who, somebody, I don't know.
Where are you?
- I am in a metal cargo container,
somewhere, and I don't know where.
It could be anywhere.
- Well, man, call the police.
- If I call the police, they are going to kill her.
They could be listening to this conversation right now.
What do they want?
$10 million.
What?
- Yeah, look, just, just sell everything.
Everything?
- Everything, my shares, my portfolio,
and when you get the money together, call me back,
and they're gonna give me the account to wire it to.
- You're serious about all this, aren't you?
Anthony, you sure this is really
how you wanna roll with this?
- I don't know, I don't know what I am doing right now.
I just, oh, I just want my baby, Susan, back.
I'll get back to you.
Mr. Peterson?
- Yeah, yeah, my closest associate is getting the money.
I just spoke to him, he's getting the money together now.
- For both your sakes, I hope so.
- Yeah, look, just tell me something, please,
why are you doing this?
I mean, why me?
Why not you?
- Look, I'd understand about the money,
I mean, but,
I'm just an honest businessman.
I'm a good man, I pay my taxes,
I don't understand why you're doing this.
- You don't get to where you're at
by being good, Mr. Peterson.
Listen,
I'm not perfect but I do not deserve this.
- You honestly believe you're a good man?
Yes, yes, I do!
- What about September 25th?
What about September 25th?
- September 25th, 10 years ago.
- Uh, I don't know what you're talking about.
- September 25th, 10 years ago, South America,
a business deal of yours went sour.
The people you needed to sell to you reneged on the deal,
they had a crisis of conscious.
You stood to be out millions,
so you had them killed, everyone.
- I don't know what you're talking about,
it's a lie, it's an absolute lie.
- You hired mercenaries.
- No, now that is an absolute fabrication.
- Entire families, you had wiped out.
That's a lie!
- You paid them extra
to make an example of all of them.
Lie, lie!
- You had them decapitated and their heads
stuck on pikes - What?
- and planted on the outskirts of the city.
Liar!
- You bathed the streets with their blood.
You killed the children last
and made them watch their parents being murdered.
You were sending a message, and it was loud and clear,
"Don't fuck with Anthony Peterson."
You had the money and influence to keep it out of the press,
paid off all the right people,
judges, cops, politicians,
and it was all swept right under the rug.
- Liar. - But everybody knew.
Liar.
Murderer.
Tom, Tom, is everything a go?
Yes, and no.
What, why? What do you mean?
- We're a ways short of the 10 million.
Well, how short?
Four, maybe five.
What, are you kidding me?
- Hey, man, you're mortgaged to the hilt.
You gotta let me call the long arm of the law, man,
you can't just go lay down
and go all bitch dog for these sons-of-bitches.
- No, if we call them, she dies, Susan is dead.
- Well, would that be so bad?
What the fuck, man?
Are you kidding me?
- Hey, you were the one always saying
that she was a stone-cold-ass bitch,
that the magic was gone,
the only reason you kept the marriage going
is that it was cheaper to keep her.
I was drunk, give me a break.
- In vino veritas, my friend.
How do you know this all isn't a con?
Who knows who's in on it?
Susan, maybe.
- No, she would not do that, I know that.
Well, then, I...
I don't know what to tell you, my friend.
Hold on, hold on.
Yeah, this is Anthony Peterson.
The money?
- Yeah, well, I got most of it, I mean, most of it.
Not good enough.
- Well, I cannot come up with $10 million, that is crazy!
- If you can't come up with the money,
take it out of your rainy day fund.
- Rainy day fund, what are you talking about?
- A man like you has got to
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