Original subtitles

- You know how kids are.

We just figured Amelia had wandered off.

Lucky for us, the whole town got involved.

[indistinct chatter]

- Stay back!

[grunts]

- SHERIFF STALLINGS: A terror had taken over Susan.

She wanted to tear through the entire town looking for her child.

[man groans]

- MAN: Grab her!

[indistinct chatter]

- SHERIFF STALLINGS: Lord knows the things we'll do for our children.

[panting]

- MAN: Open the door!

Open it!

[music playing]

- MALE VOICE ON TAPE: Welcome to Francis, Kansas...

[voice continues on tape]

[people speaking indistinctly]

- MAN: Get away from there! - Give her back!

Give her back! Give her back!

[crowd screaming]

Amelia!

[Susan grunting]

[screaming]

- MALE VOICE ON TAPE: ...from then on, we all got involved,

and together, we have made them all into what you see today.

[grunts]

[screaming]

- Amelia, mommy's coming!

[straining]

Amelia! Amelia! [panting]

Oh, Amelia! Oh, wake up.

Wake up, honey. Please wake up. Please wake up.

No! No! No.

OK, come on. I got you, honey. Let's go.

All right. We gotta go. We gotta go. - [Amelia groans]

- OK... Ah!

[grunts]

No! No!

[grunting]

[Susan continues to grunt]

I'm sorry, honey. So sorry.

[sobbing]

- Mom? - Huh?

- Oh. Oh, Amelia.

Oh, honey. - You found me?

- Yes. Yes, sweetheart, I did.

[creaking]

- WOMAN: So did you find Amelia?

- SHERIFF STALLINGS: Well, that's the funny part.

Amelia actually hadn't gone anywhere.

We turned the whole town upside-down

and Susan ended up finding her exactly where she had been left--

America's largest ball of twine.

It brings people together.

- Was that scary?

Oh, I'm so sorry, my dear.

Feel still lonely.

- More will come...

they always do.

- SHERIFF STALLINGS It was a heart-warming reunion.

Imagine, after that awfulness,

the relief we all felt when everything was put right.

- WOMAN: And then what?

- SHERIFF STALLINGS I'm not sure.

Last I saw, they were happily driving off to their next destination.

- WOMAN: So, how do you explain the dozens of missing-people cases in this area?

- [scoffs] I can assure you, we are the safest little town in Kansas.

We are all God-fearing family folk just looking to get by.

- WOMAN: If you're family folk,

then why are there no children in this town?

- We've been talking...

all this time and I am realizing that you have not seen the ball of twine.

Come.

I'm gonna give you a personal tour.