Status Updates From Along Came A Spider

The kidnapper gave Michael too much of the sedative and he died. He didn’t want that

Gary Sanji, a traveling salesman not doing well career-wise and absolutely hates his wife, kid, and brother-in-law; obsessed w the Lindbergh case, 25 years before he was born

Jesy visits to let him know he didn’t do anything wrong

They get call from fellow teacher at the school, she’s murdered in her home by Sanji, Maggie’s other sneaker in her room

Cross manages to escape from restraints and tackle him, got a few good licks in but then is whacked across the head and comes to later, no Maggie, no money

Call comes in for sighting of the missing van, two troopers find it in a barn with a huge hole and casket inside, empty except for a shoe, most likely left on purpose

Media are after him and Maggie’s parents blame him for flubbing the ransom exchange

Ransom note is traced to Miami; boy’s body was beaten post-mortem (Kanji probably enraged that he died, a mistake) and also SA’d

Cross and Jesy swim laps and talk there

Next note says drop off 10 mil to Disney park, Alex Cross will do it

Contact man takes him to Cesna and flies to small island, he’s in awe how calm and in-control this man is, he waits until night, flies to SC then takes money and runs

He falsified his references immaculately to get employed as a math teacher, and the principle even said he must be one heck of an actor cuz he def taught math

Maggie Rose wakes up, Michael is answering her, he has a heart condition and is weak, so the dosage of his drugs might have OD’d him?

They find Michael’s body dumped in the water

he’s uses same tagline as the one who kidnapped 60 years earlier the Lindbergh kid, “cool beans”

Jesy, Secret Service supervisor arrives on scene

Mr. Sanji has killed 200+ people, and now he goes for an agent, hoping new person gives him a challenge, he calls police says kids are in good shape, leaves them note on library stock saying if you work on this case you bette be a big deal - Lindbergh kid

Second hit of a possible serial killer, 6 black people dead and Cross/Samson get pulled to work another case, 2 white students missing:

Math teacher, Mr. Sanji abducts from the prep school: Michael is Sec Treasury kid, Maggie Rose is daughter of famous actress; he takes them to a barn in Maryland, hides them in compartment underneath, drugging them hoping to get a ransom and become famous