

Hendricks tortures Genevieve while Mike and Toni watch the screen. Hendricks has Genevieve and her mouth is stitched shut again. When Mike gets home with Steve, Hendricks's face is on Toni's computer screen. The next day, Toni calls Mike and tells him that Genevieve is missing. After hanging up with Mike, Hendricks brutally tortures Roth and Catherine. Hendricks also kidnaps Catherine before contacting Mike at the police station. However, the near-death experience, something he had mentioned hoping to attain earlier on in the film, reverts him to being Captain Howdy, this time with revenge on his mind.Īfter recovering, Hendricks kills Roth's wife Madeline in front of Roth before knocking him unconscious and then kidnapping him.

As Roth, Catherine, and the others leave, it starts raining and the rope, which turns out to be weak, snaps, saving Hendricks life. Roth and the group then beat Hendricks and hang him from a tree. During this, Hendricks accidentally drops his medicine bottle, and it is run over by a car. Roth calls Catherine and several others and they kidnap Hendricks. One night, while Roth's teenage daughter, Kelly, is out, a fearful Roth jumps to the conclusion that Hendricks has taken her. Many people are not happy about Hendricks release, especially an activist group led by Jackson Roth ( Robert Englund) and Catherine "Sunny" Macintosh. While taking his medicine, Hendricks is timid and apologetic about what he did, but the memories of what Hendricks did are still fresh in the minds of Helverton's residents.

So, Hendricks moves back to his old neighborhood. Doctors at the Meistrich Institute state that Hendricks, who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic with a severe chemical imbalance, is okay as long as he is on his medication. But a year later, Hendricks is declared not guilty by reason of insanity and he is put in the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute, only to be released three years later. After a brief struggle in which Captain Howdy gets shot, Mike arrests him and discovers his real name is Carlton Hendricks. There, Gage finds Genevieve naked and bound, with her mouth stitched shut, as well as five other teenagers who are in similar predicaments. Despite the plan going awry, he later figures out Captain Howdy's location and finds his torture chamber. Meeting the Captain Howdy online, Mike attempts to get Captain Howdy to invite him to a party. But it is not until Mike's niece Angela Stravelli ( Amy Smart) informs him of Genevieve's penchant for meeting strangers through the Internet that Mike gets his first lead. Mike discovers that Captain Howdy (Dee Snider) is into "body art," including significant tattooing, piercing, branding, and scarification. The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake with Tiana's tortured body inside and no sign of Genevieve. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian ( Brett Harrelson), Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. However, when neither Genevieve nor Tiana returns home by the next morning, Genevieve's mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local cop Mike Gage ( Kevin Gage). After chatting with another apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Captain Howdy's house, which is a trap.

15-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms.
