The Call Page #5

Synopsis: Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue, but then teenager Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) is abducted and calls 911. Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to try to help Casey escape and also to make sure the man is brought to justice.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Brad Anderson
Production: Sony Pictures
  1 win & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
R
Year:
2013
94 min
Website
3,602 Views


License 6-Queen-Young-Union-0-1-7.

P. R. is on a disposable phone.

BCC is pinging the phone

but just getting single hits

off cell towers.

Last ping was off the tower of

San Fernando Valley and Sunland.

Five-mile radius,

unknown direction of travel.

Check to see if he has OnStar.

Just did. He doesn't.

Thirty unleaded. I'll pump it myself.

Sure.

We're at a gas station.

Can you hear anybody, Casey?

No, no, there's just music.

Okay.

Go ahead, you're good.

Check your fluids?

That's all right.

It won't take long.

I'm sure.

Casey?

Casey?

Casey, what's happening,

sweetheart?

I think I have an idea.

You don't have to do that.

No problem for me.

Don't need it.

Sure.

Come on, come on, come on.

Help! Help, please! Please!

Please, I've been kidnapped!

Please help me!

Sh*t.

Please help me! Please!

Please help! Please!

Please help me! Please, please!

Please! Please!

Open the door now!

Please! Please help! Please! Please!

Stay back.

Back!

Please!

Stay back!

No! No! Aah!

No!

Oh, my... No, no, no!

No!

You stupid...

Come here.

No. No.

Get off me! No, you...

You just keep killing people.

Aah! YOU motherf***er!

That's him.

That is him.

Adam-16, we got a hit on that print.

Suspect is a Michael Lewis Foster.

Record's clean on this guy,

no convictions except for...

He was booked for arson back in '95

but he was cleared. That's our guy.

Got him. He's 36, 6'1", 182 pounds.

Current address,

451 Shannon Court.

Police. Don't move.

Oh! Oh!

Is Michael Foster in this house?

- Ma'am, are you his wife?

- Upstairs is clear.

Talk to me!

Yes, I am his wife.

Where is your husband?

What is this?

What the hell is...?

Tell me where he is.

Listen to me.

We need your help and it's urgent.

Where is your husband?

Working.

Where? Where does he work?

Downtown. Brent Vista Medical Center.

He's a med tech.

What time did he leave?

Phillips. Phillips.

What the hell is this about?

Ma'am, you're not gonna wanna

hear this in front of your kids.

Flora just got an assault.

Burn victim.

Guy doused an attendant

at a gas station. Lit him up.

Witnesses say the guy drove off

in a car. Guess what make.

Black Lincoln. Get the gas station

address and go tell Jordan.

This is Foster's office. Check it out.

I thought that girl

kind of looked like our P.R.

8-Adam-16, we got a witness

puts suspect heading north

on Sierra.

That's eight miles north of you.

Yeah, roger, he's not here.

Adam-8-16, go to tac 43 please.

Rog, tac 43.

I still have the P. R. on the line

but she's not responding.

You got anything for me, Paul?

I don't know yet.

Please. Please. Please.

Jordan. Jordan. Jordan!

Sh*t.

I'm here, Jordan.

Casey.

Shut up!

Sh*t. Shh. Shh. Shh.

Please let me go.

Shut up.

No.

Michael.

The police know who you are,

Michael Foster.

And they're at your house right now

with your family.

Who is this?

This is 911 emergency services.

And we've got your prints

at the scene of a murder.

The only choice you have now

is to turn yourself in.

No, please.

Michael, listen to me.

Do not hurt that little girl.

Do not hurt that little girl.

Let her go.

You don't have to do this.

It's already done.

No. No. No! No!

It's already done.

The signal died. We just lost him.

Michael Foster is the same man

that killed Leah Templeton.

Jordan.

It's the same man.

Jordan.

It's the same man.

Adam-16, we lost the trace.

But the last ping was off the tower

in Santa Clarita Hills.

Tell me where

he may have taken her.

There is no place because Michael

wouldn't do something like that.

Where's this house?

You have no right.

I have a right to arrest

you for obstruction.

Where is the house?

- That's where Michael grew up.

- But where is it?

It's gone. It's gone.

It burned down years ago.

Burned down?

Okay, what about this cottage?

The red one behind the house.

It's ours.

What do you mean, it's yours?

You still own it?

Yes, we own it.

Michael's been renovating it.

Ma'am, a girl may die if you don't help.

You understand?

You don't want that.

Tell us where it is.

Just tell us where it is.

8- Adam-16, I need to run a plate.

1- Mary-2-5-8-Lincoln-9.

We got an old

registration for Melinda Foster.

Old registration. Deceased.

Address, 1765 Oakcreek Lane.

In the Santa Clarita Hills.

Supervisor at Brent Vista

says he left before noon.

8- Adam-16,

contact the watch commander.

We're gonna need backup units

and an airship.

Roger on that. It's on the way.

Go to tac 41, please.

Yeah, roger, tac 41.

Paul?

Yeah?

Foster, that's the same guy

that killed Leah Templeton.

Are you sure?

Yes, I'm absolutely sure.

Be careful.

L.A.P.D. We're coming in!

- Spread out.

- Room clear.

Go, go, go.

Clear here.

- Nothing.

- Outside, west wall,

covered. Back here.

8- Adam-16, it's empty.

No sign of Foster

or the girl or the Lincoln.

This place is a dead end.

Either he figured we were onto him

and he never showed,

or he's taken her somewhere.

Let's clear out of here.

I want barricades on all incoming roads

within five miles of the cell tower.

I know. I said his name, scared him off.

No, that's not true.

He found the cell

and he would have disconnected.

He was on his way there, Maddy.

The trace confirmed it.

That's not what happened.

Yeah.

No, it isn't. We had a trace going,

and you did every single thing exactly

the way you were supposed to do it.

I want you to go home.

Oh, I'm not going home.

This isn't a request.

You want closure.

You're not gonna get it.

You did your part,

now you let them do their part.

She's no longer your responsibility.

So I want you to go home,

and I want you

to take care of yourself.

# Desert loving in your eyes

All the way #

# If I listen to your lies

Would you say #

# I'm a man

Without conviction #

# I'm a man

Who doesn't know #

# How to sell a contradiction? #

Please. Please.

# You come and go

You come and go #

# Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma

Chameleon #

# You come and go

You come and go ##

Oh, you're not gonna wanna see that.

No. No.

I told you

you didn't wanna see it.

You promise you're gonna find me?

I can promise you

this, sweetheart, okay-

...Age, Casey. Twenties, 30s, 40s?

Thirties, I think. Like mid-30s.

- Bridesmaids.

- Are you kidding me?

I love that movie.

I think I saw it about-

You told me that.

Okay, so you know

what we're gonna do right now?

We're gonna fight.

You and me, we're gonna fight.

Michael, listen to me.

Do not hurt that little girl.

Do not hurt that little girl. Let her go.

You don't have to do this.

It's already done.

You don't have to do this.

It's al...

You don't have to do this.

It's already done.

It's already done.

It's already done.

No, no. No!

Check each and

every car twice. Twice.

Double check, triple check.

He's not getting through this point.

He is not getting through here.

Help them look.

Phillips.

Hey. You got anything?

No, not yet. Where are you?

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