Keller
Dover ( Hugh Jackman ) , a deeply religious man who runs a failing
carpentry business , attending a Thanksgiving dinner with his family in
the house of a neighbor and family friends birches . Families'
six year old daughters, Anna Dover and Joy Birch, go for a walk outside
with their older siblings, Ralph Dover and Elizabeth Birch . Children must forcefully pulled away from a parked motor home with his siblings when they start to climb on it. After
dinner , the younger daughters leaving to go back to Anna's house to
get her whistle, she is supposed to wear at all times, but they will
never return. After a police chase , the RV was found parked outside a gas station next to a wooded area. When
Detective Loki ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) , who leads the case, go to confront
RV drivers , Alex Jones (Paul Dano ) , Alex panics , trying to rush off
and crashing into trees. Alex brought in for questioning, but it turns out he has the IQ of a 10 year old and rarely speaks . RV
shows no forensic evidence suggests girls with raped into it, and Alex
low intelligence means that he could have covered up such evidence .
Although
polygraph test by him proves compelling because of his low IQ , and he
repeatedly denied ever having seen the children. Detective
Loki goes to see Alex 's aunt , Holly Jones (Melissa Leo ) , who raised
him with his uncle after his parents died when he was six . Alex 's uncle left home a few years ago after a domestic dispute with his aunt. Alex spends most nights sleeping in the RV and do not have many things. Since the police can not find evidence against Alex, he was released two days. Keller
attacking him in a parking lot where he says Alex tells him , " They
just cried when I left them. " While no one is close enough to hear this
to confirm, but he takes it as a proof that Alex took the girls .
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