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The Human Ransom

2007-02-12T22:33:30Z

71.79.55.172: /* Notes */ Corrected info about flashbang grenades

{{Blog3
|name = The Human Ransom
|number = 0130
|image = B_and_d.JPG
|caption = It looks kinda like the cover of "The Notebook", Don't ya think?
|blogger = Daniel
|date = February 10th, 2007
|url = [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=184 lonelygirl15.com]
|description = Daniel here on Bree's account. I guess she showed up with Jonas to get me back. I had some help editing this video, it's all still a blur...
|tags = [[LG15]] [[lonelygirl15]] [[daniel]] [[danielbeast]] [[ransom]] [[lucy]] [[order]] [[opaphid]]


| execprod = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, and Greg Goodfried
| producers = Amanda Goodfried
| directors = Glenn Rubenstein
| camera = Glenn Rubenstein
| vidplay = Glenn Rubenstein
| story = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Glenn Rubenstein
| editor = Glenn Rubenstein
| song = "What Time Is It?"<br>Tachyon Theme Song Remix<br>by Glenn Rubenstein


| character3 = Lucy
| actor3 = Amanda Goodfried
| character4 = Jonas
| actor4 = Jackson Davis
| character5 = Daniel
| actor5 = Yousef Abu-Taleb
| character6 = Bree
| actor6 = Jessica Lee Rose
| character2 = Watcher 1
| actor2 = Miles Beckett
| character1 = Watcher 2
| actor1 = Mesh Flinders
| Previous = Storm The Castle
| Next =
}}
'''The Human Ransom''' is the one hundred thirtieth video in the lonelygirl15 [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos|video series]].

==Transcript==
(''The video starts with scenes of a highway, scenery, and driving in a car. A sign says "La Brea Ave, Hollywood". Cut to driving through the city. Cut to a tall glass building, the camera zooms in on the top floors.'')

(''Cut to Bree inside the building, as Jonas films.'')

'''Jonas:''' (''offscreen'') Sure you're ready for this?

'''Bree:''' Daniel saved my life. It's the least I can do. Take care of him, okay?

(''Elevator opens and reveals Daniel blindfolded with hands tied, accompanied by Lucy and three other men in sunglasses.'')

(''Cut to Daniel (still blindfolded) and Bree hugging.'')

'''Jonas:''' Bree, I...think they're getting impatient.

(''Lucy moves to cover the camera with her hand'')

(''Bree is still hugging Daniel'')

(''Cut to Bree in the elevator looking out with Lucy and the three men looking down. Door closes. Goes to black.'')

'''Bree:''' Wait!! Stop!!

(''The interior footage plays back quickly in reverse. Tachyon music kicks in as a Malaysia airplane lands at LAX and "'''TACHYON'''" flashes across the screen.'')

(''More footage of driving, presumably from Brother's point of view.'')

(''Shot has a black/blue and white tint to it: Bree in elevator looking directly at (presumably hidden) surveillance camera.'')

(''The video returns to normal color. We see oil fields and more driving.'')

(''Shots now have a black/blue and white tint to them and are replaying what we just saw through Tachyon's perspective through cameras stationed in the hall, similar to her previous video and Brother's video'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 1'''
(''Bree with Jonas as he is filming.'')

'''Text: ELEVATOR NO. 2'''
(''Inside the elevator with Lucy and men'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 2'''
(''Doors opening with Daniel'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 3'''
(''Same as last shot but at different angle and with Lucy in the frame.'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 4'''
(''Front view of Daniel and Lucy, who is behind Daniel's right shoulder. Lucy leans forward towards Daniel and appears to be whispering something to him'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 5'''
(''View from the side of Bree hugging Daniel and whispering something.

'''Text: ATR - ELEV 1'''
(''Cut to facing Bree; we can clearly see she is saying something to him.'')

(''Cut to a far away shot of them hugging and Lucy crosses in front of them to block the camera Jonas is holding.'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 1'''
(''Bree looking out of elevator towards Jonas and Daniel.'')

(''Cut to shot of a close up of the camera Jonas is holding and we can see Bree through the display screen.'')

(''Cuts to door closing as Bree makes a sudden move forward. (thought to match up to when she says "Wait!! Stop!!")'')

'''Text: ATR – CAM 1'''
(''Door closes. Jonas and Daniel are visible but Daniel now has his hands untied and the blindfold off.'')

'''Text: ATR – GROUND 1'''
(''Lower half of elevator door is seen closing as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbang#Stun_grenades flashbang] is rolled in from the left toward the gap. The video freezes, and the word "'''flash'''" appears in the upper right corner, then fades.'')

'''Text: ATR – GROUND 2'''
(''The grenade banks neatly into the narrowing gap of the elevator door. The video freezes again, the word "'''bang'''" appears in the lower left corner, then fades. Cut to black'')

'''Text: for a girl who scored 112 the last time she went bowling, <br>that's an impressive shot!'''

'''Text: ELEVATOR NO. 2'''
(''Inside the elevator, there is a white flash from the grenade. Cut to black.'')

'''Bree:''' (''voiceover, almost inaudible'') Daniel? (''normal, concerned'') Daniel? (''shouting'') RUN!!

(''Goes back to normal color'')

(''We see a shot of a stairwell. Bree is holding Daniel's elbow as they run up the stairs. Jonas follows them with the camera.'')

'''Jonas:''' Bree!?!

'''Bree:''' Go up the stairs

'''Jonas:''' Are you sure we can trust this guy? He's not like really,(her?)Brother is he?

(''The group reaches the top flight where a ladder leads to the roof.'')

'''Daniel:''' What are we doing?

'''Bree:''' If she says we can trust him, we can trust him. I'll explain it to you later.

(''Bree starts climbing the ladder, Daniel looks down at his right hand. He is still holding his blindfold.'')

'''Jonas:''' Go! Go! Go! Go!

(''He pans down the stairs where Lucy can be seen chasing after them.'')

'''Bree:''' Jonas, put down the camera. Come on, help him!

(''A helicopter can now be heard.'')

(''Bree continues climb as Jonas pans back.'')

'''Jonas:''' Seriously, go!

==Notes==
* This is the first crossover involving [[Tachyon]] directly in the series, although Daniel mentioned her in the video [[Homeless]] as the one who alerted him to the Order's tracking device in his car. When Bree says "If she says we can trust him, we can trust him." It could be that "She" refers to [[Tachyon]], and that "Him" is [[Brother]]. When Daniel's states that he "had some help editing this video". This could well have been [[Tachyon]] or [[Brother]] doing the editing (as the style of the second half of the video is much closer to theirs.)
* Tachyon has been in Fiji, which is why she is arriving on a plane from Malaysian Airlines.
* [[Helicopter]]s have been seen in other videos but always thought to be connected with the Order not Tachyon. It may be that the helicopter sightings in videos were [[Brother]] or Tachyon.
* The reference to bowling a 112 comes from one of Tachyon's drop videos, [[Knock 'Em Down]], in which Tachyon scores 112 at the "Sea bowl" bowling alley in Pacifica, CA.
* Co-creators Mesh Flinders and Miles Beckett have cameo appearances as the men in the elevator. The third watcher may be Greg Goodfried wearing a fake beard. While the part of [[Lucy]] was previously played by [[Jessi Williams]] the blonde woman in this video is [[Amanda Goodfried]].
* The flashbang grenade is a type of stun grenade that incapacitates by letting off a deafening blast and a blinding flash of light. Being in a small elevator with a flashbang would cause about 5 seconds of blindness and a temporary loss of balance due to the blast that disturbs the fluid in the semicircular canals of the ear. Since the grenade remains entirely intact and there is no shrapnel or fragmentation, no serious injury occurs from the device.
* Although the camera zoom up at the building implies that they are on a top floor, the number "2" (indicating "second floor") can be seen on a plate in the elevator doorway.

The Cowboy

2007-02-03T04:53:11Z

71.79.55.172:

{{Blog3
|name = The Cowboy
|number = 0126
|image = 126.jpg
|caption = Hey, Cowboy!
|blogger = Bree
|date = February 2nd, 2007
|url = [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=167&play=1 lonelygirl15.com]
|description = We tracked the guy down that Daniel was with at Pins and Pints. He drives a white van...
|tags = [[LG15]] [[lonelygirl15]] [[daniel]] [[danielbeast]] [[jonas]] [[jonastko]] [[cowboy]] [[white]] [[van]] [[mountains]] [[drive]] [[shack]] [[rest]] [[stop]]


| execprod =
| producers =
| directors =
| camera =
| vidplay =
| story = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Glenn Rubenstein
| editor =
| song =


| character1 = The Cowboy
| actor1 = The Cowboy{{!}}Unknown
| character2 = Bree
| actor2 = Jessica Rose
| character3 = Jonas
| actor3 = Jackson Davis
| character4 =
| actor4 =
| Previous = Sleepover
| Next =
}}
'''The Cowboy''' is the one hundred twenty-sixth video in the Lonelygirl15 [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos|video series]]. Bree and Jonas follow the man in the white van.

==Transcript==
(''The video opens with shots of the mountains through the window of a moving car.'')

'''Jonas:''' (''voiceover'') Ah, so anyway, I talked to the bartender and he said that this guy's kind of shady and uh, I don't know. I guess he takes odd jobs from (''shot cuts to Jonas driving'') this person and that person. He's kind of a...town weirdo.

(''We see mountains and trees and rain, then the shot is a peek around a tree at a cabin-type house.'')

'''Jonas:''' (''voiceover'')Alright, so we found this guy's place, finally, and we parked in the back highway and hiked up the hill. So far, no sign of this guy. Or Daniel for that matter.

(''More shots of the rain, and the cabin. Then the scene cuts to a white van in a parking lot.'')

'''Bree:''' (''voiceover'') That's his van over there. We followed him to this rest stop.

(''Cut to a shot of Jonas's face.'')

'''Bree:''' This is so frustrating. I just feel completely helpless.

'''Jonas:''' I know. He pulled into a rest stop? I don't like this guy.

'''Bree:''' Well maybe he needs to pee, but... (''small laugh'')

'''Jonas:''' I'm going, 'cause this is ridiculous. I'm just going to check out the van.

'''Bree:''' No! You're not ''Bruce Wayne'', Jonas.

(''Jonas raises his eyebrows at Bree, then we see him walking toward the white van. He looks in the front passenger window and appears to try to open the door but it seems locked, so he goes to the back of the van and opens the back.'')

'''Bree:''' (''Talking as though to Jonas although he is clearly too far away to hear her'') What are you doing? Don't get ''in'' the van!

(''Jonas gets in the van.'')

'''Bree:''' What?!

(''Camera pans to a guy wearing a cowboy hat walking toward the van.'')

'''Bree:''' Oh my God, that's the guy. Oh sh-. I'm gonna text him. Please pick up your phone.

(''We see Jonas crouching behind the van as the cowboy walks up to it.'')

'''Bree:''' Look at your phone.

'''Unseen male:''' Hey! Cowboy!

(''The cowboy turns to look the direction from which he came.'')

'''Unseen male:''' Did you forget this?

(''The cowboy walks away from the van. Jonas runs. We hear the sound of Bree opening the car door.'')

'''Bree:''' (''Yells to Jonas'') Run, run, get in the car!

(''Cut to Jonas sitting in front of a window with a pool behind him.'')

'''Jonas:''' This was a scary, scary day. That was... I saw in the back of the van, but there was nothing there. Anyway, we've, I'm exhausted, we've been driving all night to get back here and Bree went straight to bed. She's pretty bummed out. And I'm just racking my brain now this whole way back. I've just been thinking of, you know, what can we do about Daniel and I don't, I'm just, I'm ''frustrated'' because I don't have any experience in this kind of... situation? Does this guy have him locked up somewhere, or uh, who is this guy?! It's... I mean, I know that... I know Watchers, right, they don't wear cowboy hats. I think that we should really go to the police about this. We should really do something about this but Bree just wants nothing to do with that idea. But I think it might be time. I don't know. It's... you know what, I'm just tired. I'm just tired and frustrated so I'm gonna get some sleep and hopefully have, you know, come up with some better ideas tomorrow.

==Notes==
* It is likely that the Creators intend the white van and man from this video to match the ones seen in [[Looking_For_Daniel|Looking For Daniel]], although there are apparent differences between the men.
* Bruce Wayne is a reference to the secret identity of the comic book character Batman. Jonas made a reference to Bruce Wayne (as an orphan, he is "more Bruce Wayne than Oliver") in his video "[[Happy_Thanksgiving|Happy Thanksgiving]]."
* While Jonas is driving, we can see a heart drawn on the car window – presumably by Jonas or Bree.
* While apparently Bree is holding the camera through most of this video, she is never seen on screen.
* Some might consider the episode a homage to the David Lynch film "Mulholland Drive" (2001). There happened to be a strange and mysterious figure known as "the cowboy" who had a bizarre scene with film director Adam Kesher on top of a hill in California. Whether there is really an inspired link between the two characters is yet to be seen.

The Cowboy

2007-02-03T04:51:57Z

71.79.55.172:

{{Blog3
|name = The Cowboy
|number = 0126
|image = 126.jpg
|caption = Hey, Cowboy!
|blogger = Bree
|date = February 2nd, 2007
|url = [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=167&play=1 lonelygirl15.com]
|description = We tracked the guy down that Daniel was with at Pins and Pints. He drives a white van...
|tags = [[LG15]] [[lonelygirl15]] [[daniel]] [[danielbeast]] [[jonas]] [[jonastko]] [[cowboy]] [[white]] [[van]] [[mountains]] [[drive]] [[shack]] [[rest]] [[stop]]


| execprod =
| producers =
| directors =
| camera =
| vidplay =
| story = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried, and Glenn Rubenstein
| editor =
| song =


| character1 = The Cowboy
| actor1 = The Cowboy{{!}}Unknown
| character2 = Bree
| actor2 = Jessica Rose
| character3 = Jonas
| actor3 = Jackson Davis
| character4 =
| actor4 =
| Previous = Sleepover
| Next =
}}
'''The Cowboy''' is the one hundred twenty-sixth video in the Lonelygirl15 [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos|video series]]. Bree and Jonas follow the man in the white van.

==Transcript==
(''The video opens with shots of the mountains through the window of a moving car.'')

'''Jonas:''' (''voiceover'') Ah, so anyway, I talked to the bartender and he said that this guy's kind of shady and uh, I don't know. I guess he takes odd jobs from (''shot cuts to Jonas driving'') this person and that person. He's kind of a...town weirdo.

(''We see mountains and trees and rain, then the shot is a peek around a tree at a cabin-type house.'')

'''Jonas:''' (''voiceover'')Alright, so we found this guy's place, finally, and we parked in the back highway and hiked up the hill. So far, no sign of this guy. Or Daniel for that matter.

(''More shots of the rain, and the cabin. Then the scene cuts to a white van in a parking lot.'')

'''Bree:''' (''voiceover'') That's his van over there. We followed him to this rest stop.

(''Cut to a shot of Jonas's face.'')

'''Bree:''' This is so frustrating. I just feel completely helpless.

'''Jonas:''' I know. He pulled into a rest stop? I don't like this guy.

'''Bree:''' Well maybe he needs to pee, but... (''small laugh'')

'''Jonas:''' I'm going, 'cause this is ridiculous. I'm just going to check out the van.

'''Bree:''' No! You're not ''Bruce Wayne'', Jonas.

(''Jonas raises his eyebrows at Bree, then we see him walking toward the white van. He looks in the front passenger window and appears to try to open the door but it seems locked, so he goes to the back of the van and opens the back.'')

'''Bree:''' (''Talking as though to Jonas although he is clearly too far away to hear her'') What are you doing? Don't get ''in'' the van!

(''Jonas gets in the van.'')

'''Bree:''' What?!

(''Camera pans to a guy wearing a cowboy hat walking toward the van.'')

'''Bree:''' Oh my God, that's the guy. Oh sh-. I'm gonna text him. Please pick up your phone.

(''We see Jonas crouching behind the van as the cowboy walks up to it.'')

'''Bree:''' Look at your phone.

'''Unseen male:''' Hey! Cowboy!

(''The cowboy turns to look the direction from which he came.'')

'''Unseen male:''' Did you forget this?

(''The cowboy walks away from the van. Jonas runs. We hear the sound of Bree opening the car door.'')

'''Bree:''' (''Yells to Jonas'') Run, run, get in the car!

(''Cut to Jonas sitting in front of a window with a pool behind him.'')

'''Jonas:''' This was a scary, scary day. That was... I saw in the back of the van, but there was nothing there. Anyway, we've, I'm exhausted, we've been driving all night to get back here and Bree went straight to bed. She's pretty bummed out. And I'm just racking my brain now this whole way back. I've just been thinking of, you know, what can we do about Daniel and I don't, I'm just, I'm ''frustrated'' because I don't have any experience in this kind of... situation? Does this guy have him locked up somewhere, or uh, who is this guy?! It's... I mean, I know that... I know Watchers, right, they don't wear cowboy hats. I think that we should really go to the police about this. We should really do something about this but Bree just wants nothing to do with that idea. But I think it might be time. I don't know. It's... you know what, I'm just tired. I'm just tired and frustrated so I'm gonna get some sleep and hopefully have, you know, come up with some better ideas tomorrow.

==Notes==
* It is likely that the Creators intend the white van and man from this video to match the ones seen in [[Looking_For_Daniel|Looking For Daniel]], although there are apparent differences between the men.
* Bruce Wayne is a reference to the secret identity of the comic book character Batman. Jonas made a reference to Bruce Wayne (as an orphan, he is "more Bruce Wayne than Oliver") in his video "[[Happy_Thanksgiving|Happy Thanksgiving]]."
* While Jonas is driving, we can see a heart drawn on the car window – presumably by Jonas or Bree.
* While apparently Bree is holding the camera through most of this video, she is never seen on screen.
* Some might consider the episode a homage to the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive. There happened to be a strange and mysterious figure known as "the cowboy" who had a bizarre scene with film director Adam Kesher on top of a hill in California. Whether there is really an inspired link between the two characters is yet to be seen.