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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Brooks, 16, and Marris, 17, were both high school students when the two were abducted, eventually banding together to escape their captor.
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Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
Much of the film’s drama then ensues inside Teddy and Don’s basement like a pseudo chamber piece as captor and captive face off in a battle of wits, logic and strange faith that blurs the lines between divisive politics, conspiracy and cosmic truth.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Foreign passports and bedding are strewn across the rooms, but both captors and victims are long gone.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
Much of the film’s drama then ensues inside Teddy and Don’s basement like a pseudo chamber piece as captor and captive face off in a battle of wits, logic and strange faith that blurs the lines between divisive politics, conspiracy and cosmic truth.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Foreign passports and bedding are strewn across the rooms, but both captors and victims are long gone.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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