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5. Copycat

When Doris Lovett, a mother from a small town, is abducted in the middle of the day from outside her home, Jack realizes that the case bears an uncomfortable similarity to a serial killer case he dealt with 12 years ago.

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Doris Lovett, a mother from a small town, is abducted in the middle of the day after returning home from food shopping. Her car is found unlocked and her baby daughter is found crying in the backseat. When Jack realizes that the case bears startling similarities to a serial killer case he dealt with years earlier that took place in the same town, he and Martin go to visit the man responsible for the earlier crimes. When he reviews tapes from the prison visits to the killer, he discovers that man behind the current abduction, his prior nemesis, Graham Spaulding. Spaulding has recently been released from custody and has a new obsession: ruining Jack's life. The team race against time to find the missing woman before Spaulding's evil plan can be realised. Jack and Spaulding eventually face each other in a tense showdown, settling their personal war once and for all.

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