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When Evelyn hesitates, Vicki realizes she can't do it and taunts her for being a coward and not a killer. I Shall Taunt You: After Vicki is rallied back into survival mode, she taunts Evelyn, who is holding a knife on her, to just stab her instead of forcing her to overdose on pills.A neighbor hears her scream for help and confronts Evelyn, threatening to call the police, but he's easily driven back. Hope Spot: Vicki attempts an escape early in her captivity, but she's caught and dragged back.Since Vicki coded her message based on address she glimpsed in their kitchen, it's clear her message won't go through as planned. Foreshadowing: When Evelyn fights with a neighbor, she brings up that he illegally bootlegs videos, and he angrily tells her to stop going through his mail.Extremely Short Timespan: The film takes place over the course of a single weekend, as John and Evelyn's modus operandi is to abduct a girl, hold her captive for the weekend, and murder her on Monday.Earn Your Happy Ending: After being abducted, held captive, raped, tortured, and nearly killed, Vicki manages to turn Evelyn against John and escape, reunited with her loved ones in the final frames.Drugs Causing Slow-Motion: After John and Evelyn roofie Vicky's drink, everything goes slow-motion as she tries to escape before finally collapsing.By the time Vicki is established as the protagonist, it's clear how high the stakes are. Downer Beginning: The film opens with John and Evelyn abducting a teenager, holding her captive for rape and torture before John murders her and buries her body in the woods.

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The Dog Bites Back: As John attempts to murder Vicki, Evelyn - finally breaking free from his abusive hold and moved by Vicki's mother searching for her - stabs him repeatedly.

When Vicki's father and boyfriend reluctantly leave the address where Vicki coded her message after realizing she's not there, Maggie refuses to go, desperately screaming her daughter's name.

Maggie is even more driven to find Vicki as she feels guilty that she contributed to the ordeal by driving Vicki away the night she disappeared.

Vicki will not give up and constantly tries to find ways to escape or trick her captors.

Due to the short timespan of the film, much of Vicki's ordeal (such as her first escape) happen in the daytime as well.

Daylight Horror: A lot of John and Evelyn's preying occurs in broad daylight, and the first onscreen victim is kidnapped in the middle of the day.

John makes it clear he likes Vicki even more than his other victims, which makes Evelyn spiral further into insecurity and frustration, going so far as to dress in Vicki's clothes and use her makeup in a failed bid to seduce him.

Clingy Jealous Girl: Though Evelyn helps John procure his young, female victims, she can't stand the thought of him actually preferring them over her, who has aged out of his bracket.

When she's allowed to write a letter to her family to stop them from searching for her, she codes what she believes to be their address into her message.

Chekhov's Skill: Vicki and her boyfriend send simple coded messages to each other.

He shows up at the end to collect his money, and though he doesn't discover Vicki, he coincidentally holds the door open as Vicki's family arrives so she can hear them and realize they're just outside.

Chekhov's Gunman: John meets his drug dealer at the corner store, who threatens him over his debts.

Fortunately, the Chekhov's Gunman allows her to hear her mother screaming her name, which rallies her strength and courage enough to stand up to Evelyn and survive. but since Evelyn steals mail, Vicki coded the wrong address, and they end up across the street, unable to find her. Right when Vicki's spirit is completely broken and she's ready to die, her loved ones decode her message and show up at the address. She does her best to stay upright, but a vicious (offscreen) rape and torture session from the couple breaks her spirit so much that she's ready to die, forced to take pills by Evelyn and writing out a final faked letter to her loved ones, claiming she's in another city.

Break the Cutie: Vicki is put through hell.

When she sees a picture of the family together in her diary, she becomes heartbroken and rips her mother out of the photo. As such, she has no interest in spending time with her or respecting her authority. Vicki loves her father and isn't truly a brat, but she resents her mother for what she views as abandoning the family.