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She survived a harrowing ordeal in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Tonight they have brought me out to kill me. Then from across the world, her kidnappers found her again. He reached out on facebook. Did your heart stop . It was scary that he could find me. For the first time, she shares her dramatic story. How she helped secret agents hunt down her captor. This all plays like a tom clancy thriller. Absolutely. The setting. A perfect island paradise. The plot, a daring undercover stin...

me. >> i was terrified. im >> im a mother just fighting for her child. thats universal. some >> she survived a harrowing ordeal in one of the most dangerous places on earth. >> tonight they have brought me out to kill me. >> then from across the world, her kidnappers found her again. >> he reached out on facebook. >> did your heart stop? >> it was scary that he could find me. >> for the first time, she shares her dramatic story. how she helped secret agents hunt down her captor. >> thi...

Bosses. >> we become aware that adam has been in touch with her and at that point, my team was engaged to pursue that to the full extent. >> a 30 year veteran, he ran priority undercover projects for the royal canadian mounted police. his mission, find adam. if that was even his name. he reaches out on facebook, which means you have his facebook address, right? >> we do. >> you know, you kind of know where he is. >> we know hes in somalia. we know -- we suspect hes using an alias. so, the princi...

Kidnapped, one morning the captors came for amanda and her colleague nigel. they were taken out of their room and marched outside. there he was -- the man known as adam. >> we were terrified. and a small video camera was brought out. and we were told to beg for our lives. >> september 17th, 2008,elorinda turned on the tv in canada and saw this -- a hostage video on al jazeera. she was crushed. it was the first time she had seen amanda, and she didnt look good. what are you feeling as you watch i...

>> adam was looking forward to a different kind of future. little did he know, that is precisely what he would get out of this deal. >> i go into the room with adam. first we have a board room set up for our meeting and then the book publisher arrives, knocks on the door, comes on in. him and i are allegedly old friends. >> this is my star. nice to meet you. >> youre actually both undercover agents? >> both undercover agents and we have a bit of chitchat and we sit down and we go over the contra...

Amanda lindhout was back home in canada struggling to move beyond the horrific events in somalia and trying to cope with the idea that the captors who so terrorized her might never be brought to justice. and as amanda tried to get her life back on track, there was an interruption. >> i had enrolled in a university program in eastern canada, and it was during a break between classes i was checking, you know, my emails and i saw that i had received a facebook message. >> one word "hello." it was f...

Crucial to the operation now underway. investigators knew they had her kidnapper adam on the hook. they also knew that in order to get justice for amanda, they needed more than long-distance conversations. >> we need to see him. >> we need to see him to identify him fully. >> whose idea was it to meet face to face? >> it was his idea. >> imagine the opportunity to meet with one of amandas kidnappers face to face. but where in the world to do it? somalia, too dangerous. canada? too risky. how abo...

And youre bringing him to a place where europeans come on vacation? >> i think what it did do though was it solidified my status as an international business person, somebody who had the means to get him what he wanted, which was essentially a book contract. >> adam took the bait. here he is in mauritius with a.k. >> did you ever get nervous that adam was figuring out who you were? >> i did initially. and then we were walking around the resort. he turned to me, and he said what did you think of ...

And he said to me, ah, it might be something like that. >> all the way back in canada, her mother lorinda stopped hearing from her daughter. she began to fear the worst. she knew kidnappings were common in somalia. you must have felt so helpless. >> i. like we were so far apart and didnt know where our daughter was. >> i think i would have been a collapsed puddle on the floor. >> i knew i couldnt. i couldnt. >> lorinda reached out to canadian officials who told her this was, in fact, a kidnappin...

>> right off the top i just want to acknowledge, were hiding your identity. weve changed your look. >> yes. >> thats because youre an undercover agent. >> correct. >> a.k. reached out to adam first by phone. the undercover agent told him he was a media consultant for amandas family. amanda didnt know about a.k. or what he was doing. all she knew was that adams facebook messages had triggered some kind of investigation. >> i didnt really know what was going on. i knew that there was the hope to c...