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THE OTHER
By L.J. Selllers

GENRE: Thriller
LOGLINE:

The Extractors sign on to rescue a teenager from an abusive mental institution, a dangerous assignment from a client they’re not sure they trust. They pull off the extraction, but the boy disappears and all hell breaks loose—until a final shocking twist makes them realize no one is who them seem.

SYNOPSIS:

A new client (Shay) wants the Extractors to rescue her teenage nephew from a state mental facility. The boy (Logan) has autism, but isn’t mentally ill, and is becoming suicidal. Shay raised the boy herself until her sister (Jill) decided to send Logan to Mt. Angel (to keep him quiet). Rox empathizes with Logan and agrees to extract him.

Meanwhile, a reporter is covering the looming Mt. Angel closure, and protestors gather in front the facility every day.

Rox learns the date of Logan’s transfer, and they attempt a rescue by pretending to be from the new facility. But Logan sometimes sees another boy (the Other) who looks like him, and he experiences the ‘hallucination’ just as the Extractors attempt to move him. He gets spooked and runs back inside the facility.

After the failed attempt, Rox and Marty can’t reach their client, and they soon learn that the reporter covering Mt. Angel has been murdered. More worried than ever about Logan, they plan another extraction, this time going in as phony electricians.

Inside Mt. Angel, Marty manages to get the boy out, but Rox suffers a seizure and gets trapped inside.

Marty now has the boy, but he can’t reach Aunt Shay, and Logan says his mother is the governor, a fact their client kept from them.

With the help of a patient, Rox manages to escape, but soon after, Logan disappears. The Extractors eventually find Logan, who asks to be taken to the fertility clinic where he was conceived.

His memories are coming back, and he’s looking for information about the Other. The clinic won't tell him anything, so runs again, this time to the capitol building where his mother is giving a press conference.

Logan confronts her about having a brother and why she sent him away. Buckling under the stress, his mother has a psychotic break and fugues into her sister Shay—as reporters, protestors, and the Extractors watch. In that moment, we realize the sisters may be the same individual, with a split personality.

Rox and Marty leave with the boy to take him to a custody lawyer. But his younger brother, Austin, is waiting in the backseat of the car. Austin puts a knife to Logan’s throat and forces Rox to drive to Shay’s. Austin plans to kill them all to protect his mother's secrets.

After they arrive, there's a scuffle, and Rox manages to subdue the psychopathic younger brother.

The blood triggers Logan’s memory, and in a flashback, we witness what happened to his Aunt Shay and father. They’d been having an affair, and his mother catches them in bed. As Jill pounds on her husband’s chest in anger, he falls, hits his head, and dies. Then Shay attacks Jill, and Jill strikes back—killing her sister, then burying her in the backyard.

In the wrap up, we learn that the governor made her husband’s death look like a boating accident, then sent Logan to Mt. Angel to confuse him and bury his memories. Then Jill pretended to be her reclusive sister just often enough that Logan (and others) believed Shay was still alive. Eventually, Jill’s personality split, and in a fugue state, she believed she was Shay—and hired the Extractors to save Logan from herself.

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