When Walter returns home to the sound of his infant son’s relentless crying, his wife Abby is at her wit’s end. She insists she’s tried everything, but nothing soothes Logan. Walter checks the crib — and is stunned to find a dictaphone playing baby cries and a ransom note demanding $200,000,
The note warns against involving the police, but Walter suspects a janitor he once mistreated. Against Abby’s protests, he considers going to the police—until a threatening message confirms they’re being watched. Forced to play along, Walter delivers a fake ransom,
He follows a man he believes to be the kidnapper, but the cash vanishes through a decoy locker. When Walter returns home, he discovers Abby — and all her belongings — are gone. The horrifying truth dawns on him: Abby staged the kidnapping.Desperate,
Walter tricks Abby using a fake medical emergency call. She brings Logan to the hospital with his brother James — her accomplice. The police arrest them bothBut Abby gets in a final blow: Logan isn’t Walter’s biological son — he’s James’s. Crushed but undeterred, Walter holds Logan tight. “I’ll adopt him if I have to,” he says. “I’m his father. And nothing will change that.”