


Keller uses the red whistle he finds in the hole that Anna has lost (it was really stolen by Holly) to signal for help. (Alex, it turns out, was not Holly’s son, but an earlier child kidnap victim that was not killed.) As the cops begin to excavate Holly’s property. Keller is missing and will go to jail if he is found, since, even though he was correct, he tortured Alex. He drives Anna to the hospital where both he and Anna are saved. Detective Loki kills Holly, but is wounded in the head. Holly sees the detective coming towards the house and believing she has been discovered, poisons Anna and attempts to shoot Detective Loki. When Detective Loki finds the tortured Alex, he is ordered by his Police Captain to let Holly know. Holly shoots Keller in the leg, places a board and a car over the hole and leaves Keller to die.

When Keller confronts Holly, Holly forces him at gunpoint to crawl into a hole in the driveway where the girls (and the other child victims) were put. Keller gets a few clues from Alex and after Joy is found, he pieces together that Holly kidnapped the two girls. Detective Loki begins to suspect that Keller has kidnapped Alex, but can’t prove it. When the police release Holly’s mentally-retarded son Alex (Paul Dano) (who was found alone at the wheel of the RV that was seen on the street the day the girls were kidnapped), Keller attacks him in the parking lot and Alex whispers to him “They didn’t cry until I dropped them off.”Ĭonvinced that Alex knows where the girls are, Keller kidnaps and tortures him in an abandoned apartment complex. Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) becomes one of those grief-stricken demons.
