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- The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.
- Five spoiled high-school students are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area.
- The kidnappers of Herbert Scott have been paid the demanded ransom but have not returned Scott. The police chief suspects Larry Scott, the spendthrift nephew, but an opposing view is held by Morrison, federal operator in charge of the case. He assigns Betty Mason, his best woman operative, to the case.
- Kidnapped, blindfolded, transported in the trunk of a car, this is a true story of a Christian woman who experienced the peace and grace through her abduction that only Christ can give.
- Young Gordon Grant, swindled out of his fortune by Cyrus Brooks, a wealthy financier, vows to get even. Gordon goes home to Virginia, takes his few belongings to a high mountain hut, and becomes a hermit. One day an auto is stalled on the mountain. In it are Brooks and his daughter, while Brooks and the chauffeur go for assistance Gordon carries the girl to his hut. There he tells her of her father's deeds, and notifies Brooks that his daughter is held for ransom. The girl rather enjoys the situation. One day on the mountain she and Gordon see a legendary apparition formed by mist. Gordon takes this as an omen that he has done wrong and sets the girl free. She goes and pleads with her father to make restitution and threatens to return to Gordon if he does not. The old man relents and gives her the amount, which she takes to Gordon. She and Gordon have learned to love each other and they return to the world together.
- Several wild young men have been enjoying a jolly night. They have been chased away from several corners for insulting people and at length meet an old sport who falls asleep on a step. One of the crowd induces his companion to steal the man's watch. He being in a semi-conscious state does so, and on regaining reason wonders where he got it. Time elapses when he marries a nice girl and they have a pretty baby. The crook who has been forgotten by him has grown desperate from want and learning his whereabouts induces him to agree to the kidnapping of his own child in order to get a ransom from his rich father-in-law, meanwhile holding the stolen watch incident over him. He is powerless and his wife becomes a maniac. After the father-in-law has placed the amount under a rock the thieves, having concealed themselves, make, way with it. The wife, with the cunning of the insane, follows unseen to their retreat. She calls assistance, the police follow them to the river; then a desperate fight ensues on the water, when they are arrested. The wife's reason is restored upon regaining her child, and the old sport receives his watch good-naturedly.
- Two daughters of a wealthy merchant, while driving through a forest, are attacked by a band of highwaymen, and the prettier of the two, the sweetheart of an officer, is taken prisoner and held for ransom. At the home, everything is excitement and the father is about to grant the demand and produce the amount stipulated when the young officer interferes and orders the emissary of the bandits be gone. Other officers are quickly summoned, and with the lover as their leader they are on the trail of the bandits. The agent, returning to the rendezvous, reports the turn of affairs, and taking up their victim, they hurry off, but a little lad, who is left in the place and who has compassion upon the fair prisoner, observes what disposition is made of her and leads the pursuers to a precipice over which they cast the unfortunate young woman. Luckily no serious injuries were inflicted by the fall and she is soon rescued by her lover from her precarious position. The little fellow is handsomely rewarded, and the series concludes with an enlarged view of the little fellow, beautifully hand colored.
- Brewster, a millionaire, and his daughter, Ruth, were out for a walk. Brewster stopped to shake hands with a friend, while Ruth loitered behind and played with her dog. The millionaire turned just in time to see his daughter driven away in an automobile. Hailing another he gave chase, but in vain. He engages Detective Byrnes, and shows him an anonymous letter he has received. The captors of Ruth learn of Byrnes' connection with the case, and devise a plan to capture him. Later three men in a car are detected watching Byrnes' house, and the detective suspects a trap. By a clever ruse he captures two of the crooks, and forces them to tell him the location of their den. He advises Brewster to meet the crooks at the place named in their letter. Disguised as one of the crooks Byrnes is successful in entering their den, but they were warned to be on the lookout by one of the crooks who escaped capture by the detective. As the daring detective enters the room a man springs from behind a door. The detective, on the alert, jumps back, only to fall into a trap. Leaving him, the crooks go to the appointed meeting place with Brewster. By means of a small pocket mirror the detective reflects the sun's rays and attracts the attention of two of his men waiting outside. At the meeting place Brewster is induced by the crooks to enter their car. As they are about to drive away a motorcycle with a chair attachment passes. As it passes the man in the chair, unnoticed by the crooks, drops a mysterious looking bag, from which a dwarf of a man wriggles, and climbs onto the back of the car. At the end of the ride the dwarf sends a note to the detective by means of a carrier pigeon. In the house where they take Brewster his daughter is shown to him, imprisoned in a small cell-like room. The crooks demand $10,000 for her release. Just as Brewster delivers the money, the detective and his men break into the room. In the scuffle which follows Barney Lee, the Master Crook, escapes. A thrilling chase ensues between the crook in his auto, and the detective on his motorcycle. A clever scheme to elude the detective fails. By means of a rope, which his chauffeur lowers from a high bridge, Barney Lee escapes from a motor boat. The detective arrives on the bridge and cuts the rope, and so foils the escape of one of Lee's accomplices. He then follows Barney Lee, who seeks refuge in the Eiffel Tower." The chase up the tower, and the crook, in desperation, climbing out onto the beams, is intensely thrilling, and then, retribution is meted out to the Master Crook, when his foot slips, and his body falls from the dizzy height. The detective recovers the money and restores it to Brewster. Ruth is delighted when Byrnes hands her the beautiful carrier pigeon which enacted such an important part in this thrilling adventure.
- A tramp's daughter is adopted after returning a farmer's kidnapped child.
- Tillman announces the opening of the first bank of Copper Creek - in his office. He is captured by outlaws who hold him for $10,000 ransom. However, the townspeople are reluctant to help him.
- In rural Texas, a millionaire's teenage daughter was kidnapped on her way to school. Local authorities and the FBI conducted a massive search for the girl while her father attempted to deliver the ransom cash to a drop the kidnappers kept changing. The search for the missing teen would end in a dangerous firefight.
- Sarah Nade has stolen the Branson County Theatres.
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