Vanished (2006)

Forensics arrives at the cabin. The blood is Sara’s blood type. Mei runs tests at the office and finds that the blood matches Sara. “She’s dead,” Kelton says resolutely to Tyner. Kelton brings the bad news to Jeffrey. “Why couldn’t you just let me give them what they wanted?” Jeffrey pleads through tears.

Judy shares a drink with Tiersa, her rival who scored the fisherman story. Judy asks for contact information on the man. Judy passes Morell as she is leaving the bar. Later that night, she gets locked in the edit room and the lights go out. Judy goes to pick up her cell phone from the floor and sees a pair of feet in the darkness. She pushes over a shelving unit and runs for the door. An assistant opens the door upon hearing the crash. Someone slips out the back exit of the edit room.

Jeffrey wakes up Marcy and Max the next morning. He tells them that Sara is not coming home.

Kelton’s ex-wife Ava comes to remind him about their daughter’s communion. She brings him his wedding band.

Although J.T. tries to stop him, Jeffrey is determined to bring down Rainer in the Supreme Court confirmation vote. Jessica apologizes to Jeffrey for his loss. She encourages him to do whatever he has to do in Washington and she promises to be there for the kids.

Tyner informs the FBI team that the Sara case is now a homicide investigation, but the information won’t be released to the public. No one is permitted to talk to the press without Tyner’s approval. Kelton tells Mei that he wants to contact the person who has been sending him St. Nathan prayer cards.

Kelton calls a press conference, asking the public if they have seen a white van with the license plate “1N8N” at “9:29” in the morning. A man named Claude Alexander watches this announcement on television. “One Nathan,” he says to himself. On the wall behind him is the original oil painting of St. Nathan from the prayer cards.

Tyner is furious with Kelton for not only talking to the media but feeding false information. Tyner can no longer protect him and he puts Kelton on administrative leave. Kelton is to report to the Criminal Investigation Division in Washington in the morning.

Judy cannot find a vehicle match for the plate that Kelton announced. Her boss Nagel orders her to Washington to report on Jeffrey Collins at the judiciary vote.

J.T. asks Tyner for the FBI’s information on Jessica because he doesn’t trust her. J.T. offers to help Tyner rise up the ranks in return for this favor.

Kelton attends his daughter’s communion ceremony. He’s wearing his wedding ring. An earpiece is left in the hymnal book at his pew. It begins to flash and Kelton puts it into his ear. Alexander tells Kelton that Sara’s death is nothing compared to the damage that will be caused by Rainer’s confirmation. “It will be the beginning of the end,” Alexander says. He claims that a group of men have been planning this for hundreds of years. Their victims were politicians who died in office. Kelton doesn’t see the man’s face. Since he cannot work, Kelton has Mei research the list of politician names given to him by the Nathan card contact.

Daniel Lucas returns to his Washington apartment and finds old flame Judy waiting for him. She is only in town for a couple of days, so there are “no strings.” They make love on his couch. The next morning, Kelton goes to Washington summoned by his old friend, Special Supervisory Agent Daniel Lucas. Kelton expects to be demoted, but Lucas instead instructs him to publicly announce the death of Sara Collins.

Kelton receives a package from Mei with the NTSB paperwork on all the politicians’ deaths in airplanes. The signing investigator on each report is Joan McInerney. Kelton calls this woman at NTSB and asks to meet her later that day. After McInerney hangs up, she puts a voice encryption device on her cell phone and informs someone that Kelton is a problem.

J.T. receives the FBI dossier on Jessica from Tyner. It has copies of her bank overdrafts and debt collection notices. She wasn’t living in Europe. J.T. confronts Jessica about being broke and he accuses her of coming back to Jeffrey for money. He asks her what her price is to leave. “I love my family,” Jessica says. “And that is not for sale.”

A techie informs Mei that the blood found in the cabin had an extremely low white cell count. This blood would have meant the victim was being treated with chemotherapy or had an immune disorder. According to the leukocyte count, the victim was half dead before being killed. Mei checks Sara’s medical records and it doesn’t match. She lets Kelton know that Sara’s blood had been diluted with someone else’s. The kidnappers took a small amount of Sara’s blood and stretched it with plasma to stage her death. Mei urges Kelton to get to Capitol Hill to prevent Jeffrey from voting against Rainer. They will kill Sara if he does.

Kelton rushes to the Senate office building where the judiciary vote is under way. He brushes past the security entrance and the Capitol Hill police. Kelton runs into a corridor to avoid the police who are chasing after him. He calls one of his techies to access the internal server for the Senate building.

From an underground facility, two guards watch the judiciary vote on television. Sara is locked up, terrified as she watches her husband on the screen.

As the vote gets to Jeffrey, he stands up to speak to his colleagues. Directly to Rainer, Jeffrey says, “You do not belong on the Court.” Before Jeffrey can declare his vote, Kelton’s techie gets into the system and an alarm goes off in the Senate chambers. An announcement goes out about a possible biological threat. Among the throng of evacuees, Kelton catches up with Jeffrey to tell him Sara is alive. Suddenly, Morell appears and shoots Kelton multiple times in the chest. Kelton drops to the ground as Jeffrey stands over him helplessly. Kelton has a hallucination of Sara before he passes out.


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