LAST EDITED ON Aug-04-11 AT 11:01 AM (EDT)
 
>>Of course, Kate would be on every slaver's "No way in hell!" list on
>>her own merits
>
>Well, yeah, that's kind of the point. If those guys had burst into
>Kate's apartment, she wouldn't have hidden under the bed and phoned
>her father, she'd have killed them to death. :)
>

Indeed. It would rapidly go from "Taken" to something approaching "Ransom of Red Chief" (with Toshiro Mifune or "Beat" Takeshi in the role of Red Chief). Either that or you'd have a group of kidnappers who, by sheer chance, succeed, realize who they've grabbed, and spend the rest of the story trying to figure out how to get rid of Kaitlyn and Juri without being cut into small pieces.

"Let them go? Let them GO?! ARE YOU INSANE?! This is Kaitlyn Hutchins you're talking about! If we let them go, she will track us down and filet us into cutlets to use as the Secret Ingredient on the next episode of 'Iron Chef'!!"

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."