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Prisoners

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Prisoners	label	Prisoners
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Prisoners	comment	Prisoners is a 2013 American mystery thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay written by Aaron Guzikowski. The film stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano. It is Villeneuve's first predominantly English-language feature (his prior ones being mainly in French).An incredibly dark and disturbing film, it revolves around two close families in Pennsylvania as they meet to celebrate Thanksgiving. After dinner, the families realize that both of their youngest daughters have vanished without a trace. As minutes turn to hours, panic sets in — alongside the feeling that the little girls have been abducted.The police begin a search, led by a detective named Loki (Gyllenhaal), but as leads build with no results in sight, one of the families' fathers, Keller Dover (Jackman), decides to take matters into his own hands. Just how far will he go to protect his family, and just how horrible is the truth behind the girls' disappearance?Character tropes go on to the Characters Sheet.
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Prisoners / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Prisoners / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Played with. While Keller never ascribes the pronoun "it" to Alex during his torture, he certainly subscribes to the spirit of the trope (denying him his humanity and personhood) by saying that Alex "stopped being a person the moment he took [his and Franklin's] daughters". Joy also refers to Holly as "it", which makes sense given that she must have come off as a kind of monster (which is true in a way).
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Prisoners / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Prisoners / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Brutally deconstructed. The film is basically the counterpoint to all of those movies that aggrandize the father of imperiled children going on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue. Instead, Keller's attempt to take the law into his own hands causes him to do unspeakable things to an innocent man to no avail, becoming almost as bad as the kidnapper he's hunting down in the process. It's further deconstructed by the revelation that this was the kidnapper's motive all along, weaponizing Keller's Papa Wolf tendencies (and that of countless other parents) to make him devolve into a revenge-driven monster, meaning that Keller's actions were All According to Plan.
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Prisoners / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Prisoners / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Anna's lost whistle. Keller mentions his family's derelict house in the beginning of the film. It becomes a critical location later. The maze locket we see on the corpse in the priest's basement becomes a vital clue later in the story.
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Prisoners / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Prisoners / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The beverage laced with LSD and ketamine.
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Prisoners / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Prisoners / int_2c1f1138	comment	"They didn't cry until I left them." Spoken by Alex Jones in the parking lot, which prompts Keller's He Who Fights Monsters streak as he becomes certain this means Jones kidnapped the girls. Actually, while Jones does know where they are, his statement was literally true: the only thing he did was take the girls for a joyride. As he was leaving, Holly Jones "decided they should stay", and that was what made them cry.
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Prisoners / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Prisoners / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: Two little girls have been abducted and the main characters are trying hard to rescue them.
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Prisoners / int_2f95aaf0	type	Father's Quest
Prisoners / int_2f95aaf0	comment	Father's Quest: Played with. Keller thinks he's in a straight case as he turns vigilante to find his daughter. In actuality, while he does go on a nightmarish quest, he doesn't actually get anywhere useful.
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Prisoners / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Prisoners / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Loki not working with a partner and walking into dangerous situations without calling for backup first is not in line with actual police procedure.
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Prisoners / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Prisoners / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: After Keller starts suspecting Alex Jones of being the kidnapper/serial killer, Alex completely refuses to give Keller any information about where the girls are, even under torture. He refuses to plead his innocence, either. Most of the torture scenes just involve Alex just staring at Keller or talking nonsense. And it turns out he does know where the girls are, so if he had said so to Keller, much of the movie could have been avoided. But he's not the culprit, and this is a rare case of Not Helping Your Case being a justified trope: it turns out that Alex is used to being treated badly, so he probably refused to tell Keller anything because Keller was acting like the true culprit. Not to mention that his disability meant that even if he wasn't abused, he probably wouldn't have been much help.
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Prisoners / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Prisoners / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: While being interrogated by Detective Loki, Bob Taylor steals a cop's gun and shoots himself in the mouth.
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Prisoners / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Prisoners / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Both revolving around Jake Gyllenhaal's character Loki. When Loki is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like Frank. Loki is interested in zodiacs; he is introduced inspecting a Chinese zodiac, and has zodiacal sign symbols tattooed on his right-hand fingers (Leo, Scorpio, Aries, Virgo).
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Prisoners / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Prisoners / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Joy and Anna are found, but, assuming that Detective Loki gets Keller out of the hole in time, his life is still effectively ruined, as he'll probably go to prison and his relationship with his family will be strained. We also don't know how the kids will react to the trauma of their kidnapping, considering Bob Taylor was severely damaged by it.
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Prisoners / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Prisoners / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The poster contains a spoiler: the maze in the "O" is the big clue that leads to the real culprit in the third act. Knowing to look for it ahead of time will make it easier to take note of the maze pendant early in the film, before the film wants you to.
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Prisoners / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Prisoners / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Zigzagged. Alex refuses all attempts to interrogate him, including torture, but in the end, Keller does extract a clue that leads him to the correct culprit. Loki, however, managed to uncover the same clue without using torture at almost the same time.
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Prisoners / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Prisoners / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The entrance to the bunker in the backyard was covered by a piece of plywood underneath a car.
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Prisoners / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Prisoners / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Keller trying to get information out of Alex is a long, drawn-out, excruciatingly depicted, and worst of all completely pointless process that includes Alex having his face beaten to a pulp, almost having his hand broken with a hammer, and being sealed in a shower that runs either extremely hot or extremely cold water. For these reasons, the film had to be edited down from its original NC-17 rating.
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Prisoners / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
Prisoners / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: Holly and her husband are revealed to have possibly hundreds of child victims. Alex and Bob Taylor were both victims.
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Prisoners / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Prisoners / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The film is shot by Roger Deakins, so it's a given.
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Prisoners / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Prisoners / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "They didn't cry until I left them." Spoken by Alex Jones in the parking lot, which prompts Keller's He Who Fights Monsters streak as he becomes certain this means Jones kidnapped the girls. Actually, while Jones does know where they are, his statement was literally true: the only thing he did was take the girls for a joyride. As he was leaving, Holly Jones "decided they should stay", and that was what made them cry. "You were there." From Joy to Keller in the hospital. For just a second, it seems like maybe he's actually the guilty party, but then you see the flashbacks to the maze books and it all starts to make sense.
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Prisoners / int_524f397c	type	Madden Into Misanthropy
Prisoners / int_524f397c	comment	Madden Into Misanthropy: Holly claims this happened to both her and her husband when they lost their kid, so they pass it on by kidnapping, torturing, and murdering other people's children to invoke this reaction in them. It does happen to Keller.
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Prisoners / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Prisoners / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: After The Reveal, Holly Jones admits to Keller that she doesn't remember the names of the many children she's kidnapped and killed with her late husband.
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Prisoners / int_686cac9f	type	Flies Equals Evil
Prisoners / int_686cac9f	comment	Flies Equals Evil: When Detective Loki searches Bob Taylor's house, we hear flies swirling as he enters the kitchen. They herald the existence of a severed pig head in the sink.
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Prisoners / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Prisoners / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Bob Taylor has drawings of mazes all over the interior walls of his home, underpinning his mental state.
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Prisoners / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Prisoners / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The poster mentions who in the All-Star Cast won or was nominated for an Oscar — all except Paul Dano.
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Prisoners / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Prisoners / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Holly seems to expect Loki to kill her when she shoots at him when he confronts her.
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Prisoners / int_756c572e	type	Survivalist Stash
Prisoners / int_756c572e	comment	Survivalist Stash: Keller Dover has a basement filled with supplies in case of the breakdown of society.
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Prisoners / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Prisoners / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Loki is introduced dining alone in a Chinese restaurant on Thanksgiving. Toward the end of the film, his chief tells him to settle down and get a family.
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Prisoners / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Prisoners / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Keller recites a prayer as he watches his son shoot a deer. He's a religious man, a loving father, and a man who isn't afraid of life's realities. In the next scene, he stresses "being prepared," establishing his survivalist beliefs and general attitude of doing things for yourself. Loki is introduced dining in a Chinese restaurant on Thanksgiving and investigating the zodiac. He playfully profiles his waitress and confirms her assessment of her boss. This establishes him as being Married to the Job and having an eclectic mind.
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Prisoners / int_828a5ca8	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
Prisoners / int_828a5ca8	comment	Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Horribly deconstructed.
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Prisoners / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Prisoners / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The movie takes place in the fictional city of Conyers, Pennsylvania.
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Prisoners / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Prisoners / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Not many of the adult characters get through the film without doing things that are at best morally questionable. And then there's the serial killer who targets children.
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Prisoners / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Prisoners / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: The priest has one where Loki finds a corpse.
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Prisoners / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Prisoners / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: "They didn't cry until I left them." On a second watch, it becomes clear that Alex was trying to tell Keller where the girls were; he just couldn't put it into words because of his disability. Also, the maze pendant pretty much tells you who the culprit is, but you won't realize it on a first-time viewing unless you pay absolute attention.
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Prisoners / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
Prisoners / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: Turns out the subtly introduced character of Holly Jones was behind the kidnapping.
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Prisoners / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Prisoners / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Loki when he sees Bob Taylor pointing his stolen gun at himself instead of the cops. He ends up pulling the trigger.
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Prisoners / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
Prisoners / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "Make sure they cremate me; I don't want to be buried in some damn box." Said by Holly Jones before Detective Loki shoots her.
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Prisoners / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Prisoners / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Loki has a generally adversarial relationship with his chief. The chief refuses his request to hold Alex for one additional day and breaks his promise to keep Alex under surveillance. When Loki apologizes for a negligent act later on, the Chief responds, "Fuck your 'sorry.'"
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Prisoners / int_aa3f368f	type	The Dead Guy Did It
Prisoners / int_aa3f368f	comment	The Dead Guy Did It: The dead man in the priest's basement, who was murdered after he confessed to being a child predator, is also the kidnapper and Serial Killer of many children — with the help of his wife Holly, who is still posing as the aunt of their surviving victim, Brian/Alex.
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Prisoners / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
Prisoners / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: When Rich calls Loki to tell him that they found something. We are then taken to Bob Taylor's backyard where they unearth a pair of mannequins.
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Prisoners / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Prisoners / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Keller is a general contractor, as shown by his work truck. He uses his carpentry skills to barricade Alex in the shower.
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Prisoners / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Prisoners / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Of the neo-noir variety.
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Prisoners / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Prisoners / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Keller's attitude towards his torture. His wife makes a similar claim at the end. While Loki doesn't offer an argument, the look on his face makes it clear that he doesn't agree with them.
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Prisoners / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Prisoners / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Holly Jones tells Keller all about her motivation to commit those crimes when she has him at gunpoint and soon to be disposed.
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Prisoners / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Prisoners / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: This is Holly's motivation for the child abductions and murders. She has a grudge against God, whom she (along with her husband) saw as the one responsible for their son dying of cancer, so she is kidnapping children so that their parents will turn into revenge-crazed monsters, and thus there will be less souls on God's side.
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Prisoners / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Prisoners / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Detective Loki gives his desk this treatment at one point.
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Prisoners / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Prisoners / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Keller's torturing of Alex doesn't really get him anywhere. What ultimately gets Alex to actually talk to him and give him the clue he needs to figure out who really did it was the polar opposite — a civil (or as civil as could be under the conditions) conversation.
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Prisoners / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Prisoners / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Two of them. First, it looks like the main characters are going to catch the culprit earlier than they actually do because Bob Taylor behaves like the culprit, but turns out to be a copycat. Second, one of the two abducted little girls, Joy, is rescued but it turns out Anna is not with her, so Anna isn't saved until around the end of the movie.
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Prisoners / int_ca967579	type	Torture Cellar
Prisoners / int_ca967579	comment	Torture Cellar: An abandoned building where Keller tortures Alex for information.
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Prisoners / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Prisoners / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Detective Loki gets two from seeing pictures of a man wearing a piece of jewelry, in one of which he's a corpse. Keller gets one towards the end when Franklin's daughter opens her eyes and drops a few lines about him having been close to their "prison".
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Prisoners / int_d61c920b	type	Confess in Confidence
Prisoners / int_d61c920b	comment	Confess in Confidence: Played with. The man who confessed to the priest clearly expected his secret to be kept. The priest did not report Mr. Jones for abducting and murdering children, he murdered Mr. Jones instead.
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Prisoners / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Bob Taylor is initially set up to be the "culprit" of the movie. He has an appropriately creepy personality, he's evasive when Detective Loki comes knocking at his door, he purchased child-sized clothing and is in possession of bloody child-sized clothing as though he's kidnapped and murdered children, and there are body bags in his house that have snakes in them, just to let the audience know what a sick bastard we're dealing with...nope, it turns out Bob's not the main villain. He was just a previous kidnapping victim that imitated the villain because he went crazy. Alex turns out to be a dead end for Keller.
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Prisoners / int_df79b05b	comment	Media Scrum: A flock of journalists is all over Alex at the police parking lot after his release from custody. There's also the trek of news channel caravans holding out in front of the houses of the two families.
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Prisoners / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Anna gives a pretty chilling one to Detective Loki after she is rescued. Her mother passes it off by saying that Anna is still sedated, but Loki's reaction seems to imply that he knows that Anna may never fully recover from her abduction.
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Prisoners / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Detective Loki has to be pulled off Bob Taylor after losing his temper. This is Keller's entire plan. It's deconstructed as his torture of Alex gets him nothing except a probable prison sentence. If anything, acting as civil as he could toward Alex is what gets him information.
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Prisoners / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Alex Jones' statement to Keller that "they [the girls] didn't cry until I left them." This ended up being literally true. Alex wasn't the kidnapper/serial killer; he only took the girls for a joyride. As Holly later explains to Keller, "I was the one who decided they should stay." The girls didn't cry until Alex left them because they weren't kidnapped until after Alex left them.
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Prisoners / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Holly Jones dramatically cocks her gun on Keller when the latter refuses to sip from her beverage.
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Prisoners / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Keller is one of the Papa Wolf and Vigilante Man archetypes. Instead of rescuing his daughter by doing what the cops won't and taking the law into his own hands, Keller tortures an innocent man without getting any useful information out of him, he discovers who the real killer is only to play right into her hands and get himself captured, and the cops end up uncovering the truth anyway and rescuing his daughter. In stark contrast to the movies that popularized this archetype like Taken, Keller is an example of what it would look like if a real-life father tried to go on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue.
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Prisoners / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: The title logo has the "O" switched out with a circular maze, which is significant as it ends up being a key clue to the identity of the kidnapper.
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Prisoners / int_fb027f60	comment	Thrown Down a Well: The Big Bad did this to the girls and later on to Keller Dover.
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Prisoners / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Maybe "badass" isn't the right word, exactly, but Father Patrick Dunn executing the serial killer who had murdered more than a dozen children is, at the very least, not a bad thing.
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