Along Came a Spider (film)

Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American psychological thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is a sequel to the 1997 film Kiss the Girls. The screenplay by Marc Moss was adapted from the 1993 novel of the same title by James Patterson, but many of the key plot elements of the book were eliminated.

Soneji contacts Cross by phone and alerts him to the fact one of Megans sneakers is in the detectives mailbox, proving hes the kidnapper. Cross deduces the man is obsessed with the 1932 Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. kidnapping and hopes to become as infamous as Bruno Hauptmann by committing a new Crime of the Century which might be discussed by Cross in one of his true crime books. Megans kidnapping proves to be only part of Sonejis real plan to kidnap Dimitri Starodubov Anton Yelchin, the son of the Russian president, guaranteeing himself greater infamy.After Cross and Flannigan foil his second kidnapping plot, a supposed call from the kidnapper demands Cross deliver a ransom ofmillion in diamonds by following an intricate maze of calls made to public phone booths scattered throughout the city. Cross ultimately tosses the gems out the window of a rapidly moving Metro train to a figure standing by the tracks. When Soneji later arrives at Flannigans home and confronts Cross after disabling Flannigan with a taser, the detective realizes the kidnapper is unaware of the ransom demand and delivery. Soneji tries to leave with Flannigan but Cross kills him. ........

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