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Railroad of sorts. >> hey, i have an update on a possible home so i want to go through your intake briefly. >> tanya toole is the founding director of holding out help. she's ruth's counterpart in salt lake and ex-fdls members call her when they're looking for a place to land outside of short creek. tanya and her team have helped thousands of ex-flds transition into the real world. >> how did you get involved with all of this? >> we learned we couldn't turn a blind eye to this. the crazier that warren jeffs was getting, we quickly realized we were going to have an onslaught of people and that'...

17-year-old girl still inside the flds. ruth is bringing her a computer and movies, windows to the outside world. who is this girl we're going to meet? >> she is a minor and she's not able to get out yet on her own. she has a very low education in that she would so like to further that and be part of high school, do sports, things like that, but the problem is is that she can't get out. she's just afraid of, one, she doesn't want to go to hell and that's what their religion teaches if she leaves, and two, is that she may never see her parents again. >> is this a big risk meeting and exchanging...

Discovered? >> i really don't know. >> are you having a lot of confusion about things right now? >> yeah. >> well, it's a -- freedom is nice. >> see ya. >> bye. >> do you think she was nervous talking with us just now? >> yeah, i think she was. >> you're exposing her to the outside world. >> exactly. exactly. >> but i feel like it's my obligation to help them see more options out there, and if they want out, then we can get them out. >> the fact the young flds girl still communicates with ruth indicates that she's curious about the outside world, but that might not be enough to propel her to l...

>> i don't expect a collapse at all. i think it will continue to be one by one as men come to some resolution in their heart with what they want to do. >> people are left hanging without information. they are stuck in a time warp. they don't progress. how do you break that? that's the big question. ♪ >> but one person in town is trying to expose the flds to the outside world. ruth olson is an advocate for a non-profit called holding out help and today she's showing me the challenges of getting out. why is it important for you to have a presence and be on the ground here? >> the church has br...

Saying -- telling her the car she's in. so we just saw the car that she said she was in. and then it disappeared. i saw it go that way. there she is. >> okay. i'm going to go talk with her first. >> okay. >> so the girl ruth is meeting is parked right to my right. we don't want to shoot her car because we don't want the vehicle to be identified. but ruth is now asking if i can at least meet her and she might agree to have a little chat on camera. but it's very, very risky, so we'll see. these are the movies that ruth is giving her. "horse camp" and "princess bride". what did she say? >> she's ...