DATE REVIEWED: 5/12/23
TITLE: Abduction
BOX OFFICE RATED: PG-13 (This is not suitable for GOD’s children.)
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2011 Lionsgate/Gotham Group/Vertigo Entertainment/Quick Six Entertainment /Mango Farms
RATING [1 LEAST FAVORITE TO 5 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]: 1
REASON: The movie started with a group of male teenagers driving in a truck down a rural country road with one boy riding on the outside hood at full speed in front of the windshield as they all jammed to hard rock music. Nathan Harper encouraged another passenger, Gilly, to lean out the open window with the driver Jake screaming “Let’s go, baby, we got *itches waiting,” and speeding up to over 70 miles an hour on a curvy country road. They arrived at the party, hit the curb, and the high school teen, Nathan, did a somersault over the hood onto the hard ground in front of a bunch of teens drinking alcoholic beverages from blue and red Solo cups. In the backyard, there was teen partying in the pool and then Gilly collected $200 by giving some other underage teens fake IDs in exchange for the money and then bragged to his buddies that he made the best fake IDs in th state of Pennsylvania. Then, Nathan’s neighbor and middle school crush, Karen Murphy, walked by with her new boyfriend, Billy, who bumped into Nathan and then the two boys got into a confrontation. Nothing really happened, and then Nathan’s trio of reckless buddies decided to go get drunk. The party continued into the night (with no adults in sight) and dozens of teens swimming under the influence. Gilly made an announcement to his buds that his dad bought him VIP tickets to the Pirates first home game. The next morning, with his shirt off, Nathan woke up on the front lawn with female Trish, who lived at the house, hovering above and telling him he had to leave because her parents would be there in an hour as Tish and the other females scurried around to pick up the remnants of the teen party into black trash bags to get rid of their drunken house party evidence. Nathan stayed to help Trish pick up before her parents arrived, but then his dad (Kevin Harper), looked very unhappy with his son, as he arrived on scene and picked him up and drove him home. Kevin had Nathan put on boxing gloves and fight like a man since he wanted to drink like a man, but it was pretty rough going because Kevin was full-blown hitting his son in the face with martial arts moves. Nathan was hungover, weak, and not in his right mind to escape the punches. Nathan’s mom, Mara Harper, then called to her husband, Kevin, through the window after he made Nathan vomit because he hit him in the stomach so hard telling Nathan that he got so drunk at a party he was unable to defend himself. Nathan got a good kick in because Kevin didn’t stop after Nathan threw up and kept the fight going. Father and son became even more brutal as their no-play progressed and mom was stared out the window at the demons inside them taking over. Mara then broke up their battle before one of them killed the other. Mom then took Nathan away from Kevin and told him that since he didn’t call and he was out all night drinking, he was grounded for a week and she didn’t want to see him wrapped around a tree with his motorcycle, as his delinquent behavior was unacceptable. Nathan did the dishes and watched his parents out on the back porch dancing happily. Nathan heard across the street Karen in a fight with her college boyfriend Billy and watched from the shadows of his house as Billy punched his car and told Karen that she was in high school and he could have any college girl he wanted at college. Before Billy left the hood he spotted Nathan and called him a freak. In the next scene, Nathan had a session with a female Psychiatrist, where Nathan said he felt distant from his parents when they were all sitting at the breakfast table since he was so disconnected from their happiness and felt like a freak, like Billy called him, the night before. Nathan felt like he was a stranger in his own life. Dr. Geri Bennett replied that maybe it had something to do with his insomnia, impulsivity, and rage issues. He told her that he used her technique the night before by containing his anger and not going across the street to punch Billy’s face in. Nathan added that he was still having “the dreams,” and his last one happened two nights before. He explained it was mostly the same as all the others, where he would see a woman singing a lullaby to him. A man in a black mask appeared and violently killed the female, and then the dream was over. The shrink said she wasn’t like most psychiatrists and so she didn’t want to unearth those dark dreams Nathan had which were possibly based in reality, and then she told Nathan his time was up. Nathan then rode his motorcycle to Hampton High School, where he and his buddies were all members of the wrestling team and participated in a competition. In the hallway afterwards, Gilly told Nathan that he went to the gun range several times a week to blow off steam because he was a virgin and had nothing else to do (the same boy who made illegal counterfeit IDs for gain). Nathan stared at Karen and Gilly told him they both googly-eyed each other all the time and told his friend to grow a pair and go talk to the girl that was constantly in his daily thoughts. In class, the teacher told his students to do the minimum amount of work that was required so they could give themselves the illusion they were actually learning something, and to give the teacher a modicum of self-respect like he was actually teaching a class (so the teacher could collect a very big paycheck for doing little). He called it sociology, the study of society, and then gave them their assignment where the students had to choose a subject on the board for the topic of their 10-page research paper, which would constitute 75% of their midterm grade. Mr. Miles said that would take the majority of their time and their lives were ruined, but he was a great teacher so he was going to assign everyone a partner so they could learn to share responsibilities and the work load. Nathan and Karen were paired up, and even Romeo and Juliet were paired together.Later at home, as Nathan played a violent video game with the characters chasing after and shooting each other on snow vehicles, he heard from his room the doorbell ring. Mom opened the door to Karen, so Nathan quickly tidied up his very messy room and even changed his clothes and smelled himself to make sure he didn’t stink. Karen went into the bedroom with Nathan to study and Mom asked the kids if they wanted refreshments. Nathan replied that he wanted the door closed with Karen inside (The house was large enough so why couldn’t the children study outside a bedroom in an open area?) As they did research for their assigned high school project on their Apple laptop computers, the underage teens found a website for missing kids, and the website included the height, weight, age, favorite foods, medical reports, last place they were seen, and people they were affiliated with on the children’s profiles. While schooling, they discussed how Billy was not Karen’s boyfriend, and then she sat on the bed next to Nathan with their laptops. Karen showed Nathan a website with mock-ups of what missing kids might look like today, so they messed around with that program and joked and laughed about the missing kids looking like celebrities as an adult, such as Jason Statham meets Justin Bieber, Ryan Seacrest meets Lady Gaga. In the next one, Karen said Matt Damon meets Nathan because it looked like him. Nathan asked his school partner for a link to that site, so Karen sent it to him. Karen then got a text from her uncle who was on his way over to check on her since her parents were out of town (out of the country) so she left Nathan’s house in a hurry and made plans to hook up with Nathan again to continue their school project studies. He replied he would be over at her house in an hour after her uncle left her parent’s house. Nathan agreed that was fine and they would finish their high school project studying alone at Karen’s house. After Karen left, Nathan looked at the picture of the missing boy on the website (school assignment) and it age-progressed to a photo that looked like a mirror image at his current age. Nathan remembered he had seen a shirt identical to the one the missing three-year-old boy was wearing in the picture, and he searched the house and located the shirt in a storage room. Nathan returned to his bedroom and closed the door to read more about the missing boy’s profile and that Martin and Lorna Price were the names attached to the little boy. Nathan came downstairs and told his parents a half-truth that his project was on websites (when it was actually on missing children), so even though he was grounded they let him go to Karen’s house for a while to study and told him to behave himself (probably not knowing Karen’s parents were gone off to Italy and left their teen home alone). At the Murphy house, Nathan printed out a copy of the website page of the missing boy who he thought was him, and Karen said that everybody looked the same at three-and-a-half years old and doubted it was him. He tossed her the shirt that matched the one in the picture with a stain on the left shoulder, and Karen was a little more interested in the possibility that the missing boy could be Nathan. The two teens then decided to go online and contact a 24-hour live chat person for Steven Price, who was the missing boy. Nathan used in his real name, Nathan Harper, in the chat session and by doing so, in Brighton Beach, New York, a scary-looking tattooed dude rushed to the computer when an alarm alerted him to a “hit” on Price so he used a fake female name, Marisa, to communicate with the two teens in Pennsylvania concerning Steven. The pop-up chat had a female picture so Nathan and Karen believed the fake female chatter was actually a federal official concerning a missing child when instead they were actually corresponding with a male criminal hacker (no doubt searching for the missing kid for some harmful predator reason). Nathan asked for more information about Steven, and Marisa evaded the question by asking what Nathan’s address was. However, the male suspect in NY already had the tools he needed at his private home office, and used his professional high-tech multi computer hacking devices to trace through Nathan’s computer and find out his exact position in the world, even though Nathan didn’t reply. Karen was freaking out now because the lady was asking for Nathan’s address. Also, the webcam was hacked into and turned on by the criminal so he could see the two teenagers in the room and the perp was able to take photos of the two kids in the room without them knowing it. Karen told Nathan that he needed to discuss this with his parents before he gave away any more information to the unknown cyper space bots. The criminal put his phone headset on and called Mr. Kozlow in his executive car in London, England, because Kozlow requested a call immediately if the website ever got a link to Steven Price’s name, and the criminal then texted Nathan’s webcam picture from an electronic device instantly to Kozlow’s cell phone in London and no doubt revealed his home address as well to the questionable mobster across the pond. As Karen ranted about them getting into trouble because what they just did would cause all kinds of problems, Nathan looked up and saw the green light on his webcam and immediately shut his Apple laptop down because he knew he didn’t turn it on. Nathan thought it was all a mistake, but Karen said maybe he was just adopted, to which he replied if he was adopted, then why did he end up on a missing persons website. Teen Karen replied a better question would be who then were those people living in Nathan’s house (WOW…all this from a questionable high school assignment that endangers the minds of God’s children and HIS destroys HIS families in the process). At the dinner table later on, Kevin told Nathan the ocean was a big dangerous place while Nathan was still trying to wrap his head around what just happened at Karen’s house. Later on, Nathan took a copy of his birth certificate and he lied to his dad that he lost his drivers’ license and needed that document to get it replaced and assured both parents in the room he wasn’t getting a fake ID. At school, in the cafeteria, Nathan and Gilly went through Nathan’s childhood photos and noticed that one of them had someone cropped out and then Gilly told Nathan that it was strange he only had two photos of when he was young when Gilly had millions of embarrassing family photos. Nathan, helmetless, came home on his motorcycle and barely said hi to his dad Kevin. Nathan went to his room, put his toddler shirt and younger photos on his bed. Mom came in to check on him, and he asked her if she was his mother. She told him he was her son and that it was complicated, but he still demanded to know, and she replied she wasn’t the one who gave birth to him. His mom gave Nathan a hug then and told him she loved him and he was her son and nothing was going to change that because they were a family and she left the room saying she had to get Kevin so they could all discuss it as a family. While Mom was gone, Karen called because she heard him pull up on his motorcycle and he quickly told her it was true that he was adopted, so she said she would be right over and he told her to come in the back door. Mrs. Harper didn’t have a chance to find Kevin before two men in suits (one, Marisa, the female from New York online and the other man acting shady looking around for witnesses in the neighborhood to make sure they weren’t being watched) showed up at the front door saying they were investigators with Bridgewater Juvenile Justice Department and then showed her a pretty convincing fake government badge and asked to come in to talk to Nathan. Mom tried to close the door on both of them because she knew something wasn’t right, but then both men used their hands and strength to gain access to the house. They gagged Mara and held onto her when she tried to scream for Kevin (outside in his workshop), but mom used martial arts to get temporarily get away from them. Meanwhile, Karen walked across the street from her house as Mara threw one of the men through the glass window right as Karen walked into the back entrance. Mara had stabbed the glass man with pliers and was now combating the other one when Nathan and Kevin heard the noises, but they didn’t come quick enough before mom was shot and killed by one of the criminals with teens Nathan and Karen watching. Nathan ran back to his bedroom and jumped out his bedroom window while Karen was still in a state of shock outside and in tears unable to move after what she just witnessed. By now, Kevin and his gun made it to the house from his outdoor workshop and fought the man who wasn’t Marisa while searched for Nathan. Kevin saw his dead wife Mara on the floor and he was able to break one man’s neck Marisa. Kevin told Nathan who was standing outside to run and not stop because Nathan was coming to help his dad, but then the London/New York Marisa hired gun man shot and killed Kevin. Nathan started running down the street but then remembered Karen was supposed to meet him so he ran back to the house, but imposter Marisa had already discovered Karen and made her go inside the house and was about to shoot her in the head and told her she wouldn’t even feel it and it was such a waste that she was involved in all of this, but Nathan arrived and threw something at Marisa to distract him from shooting Karen and then jumped at Marisa and started beating him to a pulp like his dad taught him to for this particular moment he trained him his entire life for. Karen grabbed a fire stoke in the event Nathan needed help as Marisa on the floor reached for his gun. Nathan beat Marisa with the weapon and demanded to know who he was. Marisa told Nathan to stop beating him and he would tell him what he needed to know and instead said there was a bomb in the oven but he wasn’t dying there, so Nathan and Karen ran to check the oven and they had six seconds to get out of the house. The impact of the explosion threw them into the pool with fire all around them and debris almost hitting them. Karen was hit in the shoulder by an object and was bleeding badly in the water. Instead of waiting for the police, Nathan drove his motorcycle, with Karen on the back, away from the sirens to the hospital instead of staying and away from the destroyed house with his dead parents inside. Criminal and evil-minded Kozlow arrived from London and went through the international U.S. airport security clearance where a sign showed that non-U.S. citizens needed to stay behind the line and show documents to get into the country. However, his fake ID and paperwork had the name Dr. Pedway listed, which cleared him almost immediately after his fake fingerprint scan checked out and matched his passport. Pedway was picked up by some pretty rough-looking dudes with suitcases, and in the car Dr. Pedway (aka, Mr. Kozlow) peeled off a fake fingerprint glove and changed his clothes into a black shirt showing foreign letters tattooed on his chest. Nathan and Karen arrived at the hospital, where Nathan called from a payphone inside and told the female 911 operator that his parents were just murdered and he believed the killers were looking for him and provided the operator with the name of the hospital and his home address, 2009 Clearwater Drive. She put him on hold, and he didn’t understand why a 911 operator would do that. It then showed many males and females on Dell computers in an executive government branch CIA headquarters. Nathan put down the phone and turned around to see the news coverage lied and reported that there were no injuries inside his burning house and it was from a gas leak explosion and the police told the reporters the residents were out of town at the time of the incident. The person at the CIA headquarters spoke through the phone, and Nathan wanted to know how the now non-female 911 operator, now a man on the other end, knew his name. Frank Burton explained that he worked for the CIA and asked again if Nathan was okay, but Nathan wanted to know why he was talking to the CIA. Frank asked Nathan if he spoke to anybody other than Karen Murphy since his parents were murdered in front of his eyes (the feds knew Nathan was with Karen). Frank told Nathan not to talk to or contact anyone and to stay where he was and two men would be coming to find him shortly and that one was wearing a red flannel shirt and to trust Frank because the CIA were there to help him. Nathan replied that trust needed to be earned (as his mama Mara taught her son) and walked away and didn’t seem like he was going to wait for anybody’s help. As it turned out, the bad guys had intercepted the call between the 911/CIA people and the hospital and had listened to the Nathan’s whole conversation. The felon terrorists immediately called Kozlow and told him Nathan’s location at the Vassar Brothers Hospital, which was ten minutes away from Kozlow’s current location. CIA Frank ordered the video feeds from every camera in the hospital, and then Dr. Geri Bennett showed up with a dozen or so balloons walking beside Nathan, and handed him a hoodie, and instructed him to put it on and cover his face from the cameras because she had no time to explain. The questionable female doctor of the mind (where was GOD in her doctoring?) then used the balloons to conceal her own identity. As they walked, Geri told the minor Nathan that she was a friend of Nathan’s long-term absent father (she knew that fact for years and coached a child into believing that he had serious mental issues. Ex fed Geri with obviously some high security clearance “friend” connections with benefits, took the law into her own hands). However, Nathan stopped her and told her he wasn’t leaving without Karen, but then the fake shrink heard in her earpiece that the CIA had arrived on scene. Nathan and Dr. Bennett retrieved Karen and ran out of the hospital together with the balloons as they tried to avoid the men in black searching for them in the halls. They exited into the parking garage, while Geri released the balloons, said she hated balloons, and the balloons rose higher to cover the cameras in hopes that the CIA couldn’t see her taking the kids away in her SUV. It was reported back to Frank that the female doctor imposter was fleeing the area in her silver BMW and the agents were in pursuit on foot. Facial recognition software then got a hit on the shrink’s face and Frank recognized her and told ex CIA agent Geri that she could kiss her pension goodbye. In the car, Karen told Nathan to call the police, and he replied he dialed 911 in the hospital but it went to a CIA agent named Frank Burton, to which Geri replied that she used to work for CIA Burton and he couldn’t be trusted and that there were only four people that knew Nathan’s real identity, and they were Mara, Kevin, Geri, and Frank and two of them were already dead and until Geri could get in touch with Martin, they had to consider CIA Frank unreliable. Geri handed Nathan keys in the car telling him they were for 4-3-1-1 Clarendon Boulevard, Apartment 2 in Arlington, Virginia and to memorize the address so he could find his way there and sit tight until someone contacted him, which was the arrangement Geri made with Martin Price in case something like this ever happened. Nathan asked how his birth parents were, but Geri said Karen heard too much already and Geri didn’t want to reveal anything else in front of her because she would be the next target and told them to ditch their clothes when they got the first opportunity. She told the kids that in thirty seconds they were going to reach a bridge and both had to jump out and go down a 30-foot embankment to the water because the river was the only chance they would have make their escape from their pursuers and she added not to trust anyone except Martin Price and Paul Rasmus. Nathan and Karen jumped out of the car after Geri said she would create a diversion and screamed for them to get out of the area. CIA Frank yelled on his phone to his agents that it was unacceptable that they could only get one lousy state trooper to back them up. The diversion seemed to be that Geri used her car and caused an explosion with a state trooper nearby unaware of the whole CIA dangerous situation. The teens got into the river because they were able to walk down the embankment after Geri stopped quickly and they hid behind debris out of sight in the water from the helicopters and ground searchers. They got out of the river and Nathan tried to calm Karen down as Frank tried to get confirmation that Nathan Price was in Geri’s vehicle. Nathan left Karen and made his way to the Cast n Reel Campground and stole blankets off a clothesline outside a camper so he and Karen could dry off. The two teens shared blankets and lay together to rest under a tree in the woods. In the morning, Nathan told Karen he was taking her home, and she freaked out because she would be home alone since her parents were in Italy and there was nobody there to protect her. Karen convinced Nathan they had to stay together because they had nobody else to trust except each other and they started walking. Meanwhile, at the CIA in Langley, Virginia, Frank showed everyone the latest Intel they had on Martin Price’s current mission. Ten days before, CIA Martin Price received a high value piece of Intel that contained a list of 25 encrypted names of US politicians and intelligence officers, all of whom had sold state secrets at one time or another. This list was stolen from Nikola Kozlow, an ex-Serbian Secret Service agent (in London) who was now a freelance Intel broker and operative and Kozlow wanted the list back badly. Frank went on to explain there was an attack on the residence where Martin’s son Nathan lived and their two undercover agents and parents, Kevin and Mara, were killed. The attackers were hired guns and their connections traced them all the way back to Kozlow, and Martin was the CIA’s most valuable black ops agent and their top priority was keeping Nathan safe. One agent asked how Kozlow found Nathan, and then CIA Frank replied (not honestly but believingly) Kozlow discovered Nathan’s existence a couple of years before through a cyber attack and Kozlow had been phishing ever since with fake missing persons websites in hopes Nathan would see his picture and contact the fake site and one of Kozlow’s traps finally worked and he hacked into Nathan’s computer to find his real location. Frank said teen Nathan the bargaining was chip and went on to say if Kozlow got to the boy first then he would get the list from Martin and Frank explained they lost Nathan the night before because a rogue ex-CIA agent, Geri Bennett, helped him escape and when they found her vehicle it was empty with no sign of her or the kids. Frank’s boss told him to get things under control before they got messier. In South Brownsville, Nathan and Karen hitchhiked alongside the road and a Penske eighteen-wheeler big rig truck picked them up and the driver told the teens he would take them to a destination in Virginia. A female CIA agent, Burns, told Frank that the last contact they had with Martin was the Peshawar drop two days before and he had vanished since then and the fastest he could make it to the area was 36 hours and that was how long they had to find Nathan. Frank said to track the girl, Nathan’s friends, and anyone he had ever spoken to, and told the female agent to put out an alert to all overseas stations and get a fix on Kozlow and said if they couldn’t locate Kozlow abroad then he had probably made it to the US already and that would be another headache for the CIA. The teens made it to the apartment on Clarendon Avenue, where they cleaned up and then looked around to see what was there. Nathan found a gun and large wads of rolled money, as well as a phone and photographs with an address for Lorna Price, Martin’s wife. He saw a picture of Lorna and thought it could be his birth mom and then realized they were in Martin’s apartment. Karen used the cell phone to call her uncle and tell him she was still alive, but Frank intercepted the call and identified Karen. Nathan took the phone away and CIA Frank told the teen boy he couldn’t hide from the CIA and they would find him. Nathan and Karen changed clothes and teens sped away in Martin’s BMW without closing the garage door so the apartment could be vandalized. Nathan decided to drive to the Johnsberg address he got from the apartment to see if Lorna still lived there. The address turned out to be Lorna Elizabeth Price’s cemetery plot because she had been dead since 1995. Nathan didn’t have any feeling for the mom who died when he was young, but the mom who raised him the majority of his life, he only now realized how much his mom Mara sacrificed for him but was now dead too. Karen then found flowers that were fresh on the gravestone, so they went to the cemetery caretaker to find out where the flowers came from.The teens approached the cemetery security guard at his desk, and Karen flirted with the guard to get what she wanted by telling him that her brother (Nathan) and her hoped to figure out who put the flowers on their loved one’s grave. The guard bought into the underage girl’s charms and replied that the flowers came from Omaha, Nebraska, from Mr. P. (Paul) Rasmus, and then the teens were given Paul’s address. CIA Frank was informed that SIGNIT got a hit on Lorna Price which came from a computer at Calvary Cemetery because the security guard keyed in Lorna’s name and that triggered the CIA’s system and alerted them, so the CIA strike team was mobilized out of Pittsburgh while the bad ones on Kozlow’s payroll hacking the CIA also received that information. Kozlow told one of his agents on the phone the exact location of Nathan and Karen in their car using the transportation system to hack into the local traffic cameras. Nathan and Karen drove to an area where Gilly met up with them because Nathan called him. Gilly explained that some guys came to his house asking questions and he had to sneak out back to meet Nathan and Karen there. Gilly confirmed that he had what Nathan asked for, which were three different fake IDs in three different states. However, Kozlow’s goon didn’t find Nathan and Karen in the parking lot because they didn’t return to the car, but he followed them to the Amtrak train station and watched them board the train to Omaha. In their private train car, the two teens discussed their eighth-grade summer when they were together in the boat house, and that led to them now being close and personal and kissing. However, Karen wanted food so they separated and Karen left to get the food by herself. The goon was spotted on the same train calling in to Kozlow and told him they were about to stop at the Cincinnati station, to which Kozlow replied in the car he and his men would be there waiting. As Karen walked down the hallway back to the train car with the tray of food, the hired gun stalked her from behind and then grabbed her and pulled her into an empty cabin and smacked her hard across the face where she landed on the floor and then kicked her. He then pointed a gun at Karen’s face demanding to know what room Nathan was in. He tied her up and put duct tape over her mouth and left, as she must have given him the room number but Nathan wasn’t there because he went to the train cafeteria to check on Karen. He walked back and noticed his room door open and hid while the thug walked out and then tried to slip back inside his room and close the door but it didn’t quite shut and the criminal got in and punched Nathan in the face and closed the door and the curtains behind them. They fought each other and the bad man kept trying to choke Nathan, but Nathan listened to his dad’s (Kevin) voice in his head and used his strategy to get out of the situation, and it worked and he knocked the devil unconscious. As Karen came into the room after freeing herself, she saw Nathan smash the glass window by kicking it and threw the unconscious stalker out of the moving train. The train then stopped suddenly before reaching the station, and Nathan and Karen ran off the train into the woods while Frank was in a helicopter above searching for them and then the helicopter landed by the train tracks where the bad dead man’s body had been found and CIA covered up the train incident. As the teens walked alongside the road with their heads down, two vehicles drove by them and screeched to a halt, and they ran as the CIA, including Frank and the female Burns, jumped out of the cars. Frank was able to talk Nathan and Karen to turning themselves in because the CIA weren’t threatening him and had no guns but just wanted him in their custody, and the kids gave in because they had been on the run for 22 hours straight. Frank took them to get a burger and milkshake, and the teens were more than happy to accept as agents stood outside the eatery guarding the building and held guns with more posted around on rooftops in the area. Frank sent Karen to Agent Burns at the counter to help Karen with her bruises from the bad guy on the train while Frank talked alone with Nathan. Frank brought Nathan up to speed on how he was in the foster care system because Martin was unstable after Lorna’s death and couldn’t raise a child but could remain a CIA operative and do the dirty deeds the CIA needed him to get done. He said that Martin and Kozlow were basically the same, except Kozlow was the bad guy. During this, the CIA agents on the rooftops dropped like flies because Kozlow’s men took them out with their silent guns. Frank explained that Nathan was getting a backstage view of the CIA that normally people didn’t get to see and they were in the middle of a polite war based on information (data), which was what Kozlow was after. That’s when he quickly told Nathan that Martin stole Kozlow’s information and the madman wanted it back and if he could get ahold of Nathan, th Martin would then trade the information for Nathan. The ground crew CIA realized that none of the rooftop CIA were reporting on their radio devices and realized there was a problem so they had to take immediate action. Nathan was told about the encrypted list of 25 names of people, but to the naked eye it was just a list of seemingly meaningless numbers and letters. Teen Nathan questioned if Frank’s name was on the list, but he wouldn’t answer and just laughed. The CIA ground crews were shot down outside the restaurant, and the bad guys shot through the window and shattered the glass, and Frank told everyone to get behind the counter while he shot out the window at the bad guys. Agent Frank and Agent Burns played dead when the two gunmen came in so they looked past them but then the CIA agents shot the bad guys dead. Right before that, Nathan and Karen snuck out the back and left in a stolen truck, where he told her about the list was on the phone he took from Martin’s apartment and had with him because Martin must have texted the encrypted to himself for safekeeping, which now Nathan had in his possession. Karen couldn’t understand why Nathan didn’t give the phone to the CIA, and he replied it was because Geri was right about Frank not being trustworthy. Another cell phone rang unexpectedly, and Karen asked whose it was and Nathan explained it belonged to the guy on the train who he threw out the window, so when he answered it the creepy man, Kozlow, on the other end and told Nathan that the funny thing about cell phones was they could be turned into listening devices as well so he had heard everything that happened since the train incident because Nathan had taken the cell phone with him.Kozlow said Nathan had something that belonged to him and it was time to give it back, and London Kozlow started ranting that if he didn’t get the data from Nathan that he demanded, he was going to start killing all of Nathan’s friends, neighbors, and boring teachers and when Kozlow was finished, Nathan would be responsible for the death of every friend he had on Facebook. He went on to explain that he knew that Nathan never wanted Karen to get hurt and said that her parents were due to arrive on their flight the following afternoon threatening that Karen’s parents would die if he didn’t get his list. Teen rogue Nathan told Kozlow that he would pick the time and public place they would meet so Nathan could give Kozlow the data he wanted. An alarm went off then at the house Kozlow’s goons had taken over because the CIA had backtracked the signal and then arrived on scene and the CIA shot everybody dead inside. One of those CIA agents on site called Frank and told him that there was a digital record on the hackers’ system of the conversation between Kozlow and Nathan and how Nathan had the list and was about to meet with Kozlow and hand it over to him. Gilly took his 80-year-old neighbor’s car and met up with Nathan and Karen under a bridge, where Gilly gave Nathan patio section, VIP access only under 23D seating tickets to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game where the meeting would take place. Nathan wore a #21 Clemente Pirates Jersey and went into the baseball stadium alone. As he was walking, CIA agent Martin called Nathan on Martin’s apartment cell phone and told Nathan that he was on his way and as soon as Kozlow got the list he would kill Nathan. Nathan didn’t want to listen to Martin because the man was never in his life for the last fifteen years and didn’t know the man so he hung up on him. Nathan called Kozlow and told him that he left him a ticket on the foot of the statue out front of the stadium, and as he retrieved it, teen Karen took photos and texted them to Nathan, and then she returned to the car to wait with Gilly. Nathan and Kozlow took a seat next to each other and as Nathan was cocking and uncocking a gun and Kozlow ate popcorn, Kozlow told Nathan how agent Martin Price was a Class Five and had the authority to break the Geneva Convention, which meant he could kill women and children and do whatever was necessary to accomplish his mission. He added that Lorna wouldn’t give up Martin’s location even to save her own life, and that’s when Nathan found out that Kozlow killed Lorna and then Kozlow asked Nathan if he remembered because he was there in Paris, 1995, and Kozlow said he made one tiny mistake because he forgot to check under the bed to see if anybody was there because he did his routine camera checks but he didn’t do a room sweep to see if there were other people hiding, so he didn’t know Nathan was under the bed watching Kozlow torturing and then killing Lorna (The memory Nathan had told the professional Dr. Geri but she didn’t want to discuss which caused the kid mental issues for years). The crowd, who was actually paying attention to the game, stood up and cheered. Nathan stood up with the crowd and then sat back down only to learn that Kozlow had taken the gun out of Nathan’s seat and inconspiculously pulled it on Nathan. Nathan made a getaway with Kozlow knocking everybody out of his way trying to catch Nathan and the CIA then discovered Nathan’s location and ran to intercept Nathan. While Nathan was hiding, Martin called Nathan on the cell phone and told Nathan to lead Kozlow to the south parking lot or Nathan would be dead. Nathan ridiculously slid down the glass pillars and fell to the ground below because Kozlow blocked his exit and he hurt his leg when he jumped down the remaining distance. Nathan hurriedly limped away to the south parking lot, where Martin shot Kozlow dead with a long-distance gun somewhere far away from a rooftop. Nathan got a call on the phone again, and he was about to answer it but agent Frank walked up and said he would take that from Nathan.Frank’s CIA boss then appeared and told him he would take the cell phone with the list of names from Frank, but Frank didn’t want to give it up and said it was encrypted. The boss said that was the first thing agent Martin said Frank would say because if he took it to be decrypted himself, he would erase his own name from the list. The big boss told the CIA agents to let Nathan go and told Frank that he needed to come with them because he was in a lot of trouble. Frank then got a call on the cell phone, so he answered it and Martin told him to give his phone back to Nathan and added that he (Martin) would see Frank soon. Nathan and Martin spoke and basically Martin said he was Nathan’s father but could never be his dad and that was because of choices he made in his life and couldn’t reverse and that Nathan was on his own in the future.Karen walked over and gave Nathan a hug, and then Geri appeared and Nathan said nobody could ever replace his parents, Kevin and Mara, and Geri told him that he could come live with her until he finished high school, and then he could go on to college and whatever else he wanted to pursue. Nathan agreed to live with Geri. Teens Nathan and Karen wanted some alone time and told Geri they weren’t ready to leave yet. Geri told Nathan that Karen was somebody Nathan needed to hold onto, and he said Karen was worth it. The movie ended with underage teens Nathan and Karen kissing in the empty bleachers because they missed the game.On a 35 million budget, this film grossed over 82 million at the box office.