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>> they plotted an escape straight out of a movie. >> that window, it was sealed. there had been bricks cemented across the front of it. but as nigel discovered, the mortar that held the bricks in place was crumbling. and we had a pair of nail clippers that our captors had given us. >> you used that? >> yeah. to carve away at that mortar until enough bricks disintegrated and mortar crumbled. >> every day they chipped away, hiding their work by stacking the bricks up again. each brick loosened until they were closer to freedom. until one day the hole was big enough. they'd heard the daily calls...

Intensified. >> beyond emotional abuse, was it physical? >> uh-huh, yes. >> she had just told me that shawn was -- was getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night. he came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> brooke's family didn't know about any of this, the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn't until after her death that her family finally learned brooke's secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that manila envelope? >> yeah, it was -- it was horrible. >> it was britney who discovered it as she went about the grim ...

And was very disturbed. keith morrison: and another time, she said, when she looked out her bathroom window-- i see mark on a hillside behind my house. he's looking through the scope, pointing the rifle at me. keith morrison: and once, said linda, long after she left him, after mark agreed to plead guilty to the stalking charge, she visited their abandoned paradise, kiket island, to retrieve some personal things. and she said she found in a cubbyhole in the master bedroom a wedding candle that she'd thrown away during the divorce. i found the wedding candle in there with a .22 bullet casing an...

Out. >> nigel had done some investigating in the bathroom and discovered we might have a chance to escape out that bathroom window, which at first seemed like an impossible idea. >> they plotted an escape straight out of a movie. >> that window, it was sealed. there had been bricks cemented across the front of it. but as nigel discovered, the mortar that held the bricks in place was crumbling. and we had a pair of nail clippers that our captors had given us. >> you used that? >> yeah. to carve away at that mortar until enough bricks disintegrated and mortar crumbled. >> every day they chipped ...

Their plan was to jump down and head there for safety. that was the plan at least. >> from the moment that i dropped down out of that bathroom window and hit the sand below, i knew that it was bad. >> nothing outside looked like they thought it would. worse, a neighbor spotted them. they had to get out of there. >> we just ran, and nigel started screaming for help. we did find the mosque. and right before we stepped in, i looked back, and i saw one of our young captors standing about 20 feet away. >> weak and winded from running for the first time in five months, amanda and nigel dashed into t...