Vanished (2006)

From her estate in the exclusive Buckhead suburb of Atlanta, Sara Collins tells a caller that her husband has arrived home. “Never call here again,” she says sternly before hanging up. Sara greets her husband, U.S. Senator Jeffrey Collins. He presents her with a diamond necklace. Sara tries to have a private conversation with him but they are interrupted.

Later that night, Sara and Jeffrey attend a benefit honoring her work with the Begin Right educational charity. One of Sara’s young students gives her a handcrafted necklace. Jeffrey removes the diamonds so that Sara can wear the handmade one instead. A hotel concierge with a goatee informs Sara that there is an urgent call on the house phone. She leaves the ballroom to take the call. Jeffrey is approached by the Deputy Attorney General who encourages him to vote with the President choice for Supreme Court confirmation. Someone alerts Jeffrey that Sara is missing. He asks a concierge if he has seen his co-worker with the goatee who brought Sara the message. The concierge says there is no such person on staff. Jeffrey becomes alarmed and security is called in. He finds the child’s necklace on the ground outside the front door.

FLASHBACK TO SIX MONTHS PRIOR – FBI Agent Graham Kelton brings a briefcase full of money to a man in a park. It is ransom money for a kidnapped twelve year-old boy named Nathan. A police sharpshooter takes out the man, but Kelton notices the detonator switch in the man’s hand. The explosives strapped to Nathan go off. The boy is killed before Kelton’s eyes.

PRESENT DAY – Kelton gets a call from his FBI Supervisor that Senator Collins’ wife might have been kidnapped.

WCN reporter Judy Nash interrupts her sexual romp with cameraman Adam when she sees a scroll on the television that Sara Collins is missing. Judy calls into headquarters and demands to be put on the story.

Kelton arrives at the hotel and takes control of the crime scene that his partner Agent Lin Mei is working. Kelton questions Jeffrey whether he or his wife were having affairs. Jeffrey’s son Max tells the agent that the man who took Sara might have touched her chair. Kelton lifts prints off the chair, and Mei informs the Senator that his daughter Marcy might also be missing.

Marcy Collins is woken up by her boyfriend Ben at his house. They are planning to elope. Suddenly, the FBI raid Ben’s house, startling the couple. Marcy comes outside to see her father. She introduces Ben to him. Jeffrey pulls her aside to let her know that Sara is missing. From a distance, Judy begins her news report.

Max tells Kelton that Marcy and Sara used to be close, but a year ago something chilled in their relationship. Mei finds a home pregnancy test in Sara’s bathroom. Kelton informs Jeffrey, who is shocked to find out that his wife is pregnant. They are put on the trail of Jeffrey’s ex-wife, Jessica.

At FBI, the agents learn that Sara snuck out somewhere earlier that day. Kelton has his techs search the GPS in Sara’s car and they discover that she went to a cafe. Sara’s parents come to the office and tell Kelton that their daughter is actually unable to conceive so the news of her pregnancy must be false.

The police track the car of the suspect. The driver is a carjacker. Inside the trunk is the suspect, who is dead. The medical examiner finds that the suspect was murdered within an hour of retrieving Sara from the hotel. The body has a tattoo of a “9” on its hand. It was inked after he was killed.

The next morning, Judy discovers that there was a missing persons report on Sara from twelve years ago in Florida. However, there was never any news story about her disappearance.

Kelton and Mei visit the café where Sara had secretly went to the day of her disappearance. Across the street is an ATM with a wide-angle lens. As they go to check it out, a black sedan pulls past them. The agents do not notice someone inside the car taking their photo.

In Ben’s house, Marcy finds a blood-soaked sweatshirt and a duffel bag filled with bundles of cash. She doesn’t tell Ben.

Kelton has the techs pull up the footage from the ATM for Jeffrey, who is surprised to see that Sara was meeting with his ex-wife Jessica. Mei triangulates a call to Jessica’s cell phone. She is at the same hotel where Sara disappeared. Kelton and Mei go to the hotel room from the signal but Jessica is gone.

Jeffrey tells Max that his mother seems to be in Atlanta instead of in Europe where she claimed. Kelton comes to Jeffrey’s house and informs him that there were brunette hairs in Jessica’s hotel room, which might indicate a struggle with Sara.

Judy Nash accosts Sara’s parents and asks them about the previous missing person report from twelve years ago. They tell her they received an urgent voicemail from their daughter about Jeffrey. She vanished before they could speak.

FBI Ballstics finds the source of the gun that killed the suspect found in the car trunk. Kelton and Mei raid the house linked to the gun. It’s empty except for a dead woman’s body. They recognize the woman as the wife of the Atlanta mayor who went missing ten years earlier. They theorize that she was frozen post-mortem. The body is clutching a prayer card with St. Nathan on it. On the back of the card is written “9:29.” Nathan is the name of the boy who Kelton could not save from the kidnapper months before.

Marcy arises from bed and is careful not to wake Ben. She takes the bloody sweatshirt and the bag full of money and slips out from the house.

Max emails his mother with a warning that Jeffrey knows she’s still in town.

Across the country, a man named Peter Manning enters a bar. He sees a TV news report about Sara and is stunned. He tells his buddy that he used to date Sara, but her name was Nikki Johnson. Twelve years ago, Peter asked her to marry him. He never saw her again.


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